Programme | Amsterdam Colloquium 2024

The programme of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium is available here.

Wednesday, 18 December 2024
8.30 – 9.20	Registration and Coffee
9.20 – 9.30	Opening (Turingzaal)
9.30 – 10.30	Turingzaal (Chair: Floris Roelofsen) Ivano Ciardelli Questions and their subject matters
10.30 – 10.45	break
	Workshop: Dynamic and Inquisitive: Themes from the Work of Jeroen Groenendijk Turingzaal (Chair: Fausto Carcassi)	Session on Modality I Eulerzaal (Chair: Tom Schoonen)
10.45 – 11.15	Valentin D. Richard Dynamic effects of modalized questions	Paolo Santorio Bounds for Metaphysical Modality
11.15 – 11.45	Tom Roberts Just-asking questions	Andrés Soria Ruiz Expressive inferences & mighty obstacles
11.45 – 12.00	break
12.00 – 12.30	Turingzaal (Chair: Giorgio Sbardolini) - Lightning Talks
	Simon Wimmer: "Believe" is not a propositional attitude verb
	John Duff & Daniel Altshuler: Reanalysis in discourse comprehension: Evidence from reading times
	Tom Ralston: Generic Explanations for Generics
	Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Kurt Erbach, Richard Breheny, Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo: Non-maximality effects in gestural plural predication
	Adèle Hénot-Mortier: Scalarity, information structure and relevance in varieties of Hurford Conditionals
	Yaqing Hu: Same Type of Comparatives, But with Different Syntax and Semantics
	Tatiana Bondarenko, Richard Luo, Vincent Rouillard: Thinking Statively and Dynamically: a view from Georgian
	Torgrim Solstad & Oliver Bott: Causal abductive reasoning in discourse processing: Evidence from eye tracking
12.30 – 14.30	Lunch + Poster Session
14.30 – 15.30	Turingzaal (Chair: Marieke Schouwstra) Veneeta Dayal Overtly marked mention-all questions
15.30 – 15.45	break
	Session on Disjunction Turingzaal (Chair: Maria Aloni)	Session on Epistemic Verbs Eulerzaal (Chair: Beste Kamali)
15.45 – 16.15	Manfred Krifka Exceptions to Hurford’sConstraint and Disjunctions over Speech Acts	Pranav Anand & Natasha Korotkova Facts, intentions, questions: English “come-to-know” predicates in deliberative environments
16.15 – 16.45	Justin Bledin Free Choice With Arbitrary Variables	Marta Abrusan Non-factive “know”: What does it mean?
16.45 – 17.15	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Nicolae, Anton Benz, Gabriela Bilbiie, Lyn Tieu More than one way to free choice: A view from child Romanian	Andrea Matticchio Neg-raising interacts with implicatures: The case of doubt
17.15 – 18.00	Eulerzaal - Mentoring Session
20.00 – 24.00	Reception at Hannekes Boot

Thursday, 19 December 2024
9.30 – 10.30	Turingzaal (Chair: Paul Dekker) Liz Coppock Metrology and Mereology
10.30 – 10.45	break
	Session on Quantification Turingzaal (Chair: Sonia Ramotowska)	Session on Conditionals I Eulerzaal (Chair: Takanobu Nakamura)
10.45 – 11.15	Paloma Jeretic, Aurore Gonzalez, Itai Bassi, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland DUAL as a core concept and the pronounceability of alternatives	Calum McNamara & Xueyin Zhang Dutch books, Indicative conditionals, and Rational updating
11.15 – 11.45	Andrew Kato Relative quantification and equative scope-taking	Alexander W. Kocurek Counterpossibles, functional decision theory, and artificial agents
11.45 – 12.00	break
12.00 – 12.30	Turingzaal (Chair: Fausto Carcassi) - Lightning Talks
	Eleonora Zani, Ivano Ciardelli, Emanuela Sanfelici: Testing theories of SDA via acquisition
	Andreea Nicolae, Yasutada Sudo, Muyi Yang: On the anti-exhaustive inference of ya
	Andrej Jovicevic: A Modal Semantics for Weak, Question-Sensitive Belief
	Yasuke Yagi, Takanobu Nakamura, Kenta Mizutani: Toward a semantic theory of universal NCIs
	Lisa Bylinina, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Yasutada Sudo: Priming NPI Acceptability Judgments and The Bagel Problem
	Maik Thalmann & Andrea Matticchio: On being certain that presuppositions don’t project universally
	Hitomi Hirayama: A Pragma-Semantic Account for Negative Island Obviation by Wa in Japanese
12.30 – 14.00	Lunch + Poster Session
	Session on Plurals Turingzaal (Chair: Emile Enguehard)	Session on Conditionals II Eulerzaal (Chair: Dean McHugh)
14.00 – 14:30	Jad Wehbe, Kate Kinnaird, Martin Hackl Distributivity facilitates ACD resolution	Fabrizio Cariani Default Premise Semantics for Anankastic Conditionals
14.30 – 15.00	Kurt Erbach, Stavroula Alexandropoulou, Richard Breheny, Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sadu Putting summative predicates into context	David Boylan How Conditionals Restrict
15.00 – 15.15	break
	Session on Presuppositions Turingzaal (Chair: Marco Degano)	Session on Events and Properties Eulerzaal (Chair: Giorgio Sbardolini)
15.15 – 15.45	Silvia Silleresi, Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Anastasia Nuworsu, Maria Teresa Guasti The interpretation of logophoric and ordinary pronouns in Ewe: an experimental study	Yael Greenberg & Hedde Zeijlstra What is special about special?
15.45 – 16.15	Alexandros Kalomoiros, Matthew Mandelkern, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz Presuppositions project asymmetrically, unless they don’t	Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Bernhard Schwarz To compose a number is to compose a cardinality: evidence from intensional contexts
16.15 – 16.45	Elena Herburger & Paul Portner Additive Presuppositions and Logical Strength	Boram Kim Measuring event participants
16.45 – 17.00	break
17.00 – 18.00	Turingzaal (Chair: Luca Incurvati) Salvatore Florio Singularism, Pluralism, and Definitional Equivalence
20.30 – 21.30	Beth Lecture Doelenzaal, University Library, Singel 425 (Chair: Johan van Benthem) Angelika Kratzer Title: Possible worlds in a polyphony of meanings

Friday, 20 December 2024
9.30 - 10.30	Turingzaal (Chair: Robert van Rooij) Wataru Uegaki Semantic triviality leads to ungrammaticality through iterated learning
10.30 – 10.45	break
	Workshop: Identifying and Explaining Universals of Semantics Turingzaal (Chair: Fausto Carcassi)	Session on Philosophy of Logic Eulerzaal (Chair: Simone Picenni)
10.45 – 11.15	Irina Nemtcova & Jakub Szymanik Explaining universal semantic properties in the adjectival/adverbial domain	Ludovica Conti (cancelled) Arbitrary Frege Arithmetic
11.15 – 11.45	Mora Maldonado, Ruizhe Zhou, Benjamin Spector An experimental assessment of the nall lexical gap	Brett Topey & Julien Murzi What is Carnap’s Problem and How Can We Solve it?
11.45 – 12.00	break
12.00 – 12.30	Turingzaal (Chair: Giorgio Sbardolini) - Lightning Talks
	Teruyuki Mizuno: A localist approach to the semantics and distribution of X-marking
	Valeria Gradimondo, Lucia M. Tovena, Timothée Bernard: Crossing different ontological domains: the case of appena
	Alexandre Cremers: Vagueness and pragmatic reasoning in quantified sentences
	Lera Marinina: Northern Khanty demonstratives: a markedness-based approach
	Patrick Elliott & Filipe Hisao Kobayashi: Ignorance under attitudes
	Fenna Berger & Matthijs Westera: Testing Unalternative Semantics on a large corpus of naturalistic speech
	Zhuang Chen: Evaluativity in even-hosting comparatives: Information structure and salient scales
	Fabian Schlotterbeck, Polina Berezovskaya, Sigrid Beck: Age stratification in collective readings of Present Day English ‘every’-DPs
	Hongchen Wu & Maxime Alexandra Tulling: On the availability of inverse scope reading in Dutch doubly-quantified thetic sentences
12.30 – 14.30	Lunch + Poster Session
	Session on Modality II Turingzaal (Chair: Tom Roberts)	Session on Names Eulerzaal (Chair: Alexandre Cremers)
14.30 – 15.00	Angelica Hill The Case for an Anchored CAUSE	Sreekar Raghotham Loose nominals
15.00 – 15.30	David Boylan & Ginger Schulteis Ability and Actuality	Eli Sharf What appositives can tell us about names and definite descriptions
15.30 – 16.00	Jakob Majdic Circumstantial indirectness: Future orientation of modals revisited	Peter R. Sutton & Hana Filip Making a statement: eventuality denoting nominals
16.00 – 16.15	break
16.15 – 17.15	Turingzaal (Chair: Karolina Krzyzanowska) Eleonore Neufeld Giving Generic Language Another Thought