Venue: Eulerzaal, CWI Building, Science Park 123, Amsterdam.

 

Invited speakers

• Beste Kamali (ILLC & University of Amsterdam)
• Karolina Krzyzanowska (ILLC & University of Amsterdam)

 

Programme

 

Tue 17 December

 

10:15 -- 10:20 Welcome

10:20 -- 11:10 Jiajia Wang (MPhil, UCL). Split or Unified: revisit the structure(s) and reading(s) of Mandarin Chinese Classifier Phrases

Comments: Beste Kamali (ILLC & UvA)

11:10 -- 12:00 Marie Boscaro (Jean Nicod). Setting up background information with hyperlinks and hashtags on social media.

Comments: Paul Dekker (ILLC & UvA)

12:00 -- 13:00 Break

13:00 -- 14:00 Invited: Beste Kamali (ILLC & UvA). Narrow scope universals and existential PPIs: toward a unified analysis.

14:00 -- 14:50 Victoria-Elliot Bush (PhD, Queen Mary). A semantic approach to the numeral-noun construction: Evidence from an artificial language learning experiment.

Comments: Marieke Schouwstra (ILLC & UvA)

14:50 -- 15:10 Break

15:10 -- 16:00 Baptiste Loreau Unger (PhD, Paris). Toward a topological theory of the aspectual conceptualization of events.

Comments: Monique Flecken (UvA) and Émile Enguehard (ILLC & UvA)

16:00 -- 17:00 Invited: Karolina Krzyzanowska (ILLC & UvA). Conditionals and goal framing: where a little logic goes a long way.

 

• 17:00 Reception at Café Oerknal.