Programme

Thursday, February 5, 2015 – Room 6303
9.30-10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00-10.50 Invited speaker:
Rick Nouwen
From disjunction to modified numerals
10.50-11.20 Break
11.20-12.00 Jacques Moeschler How to compute negation scope?
12.00-12.40 Karoliina Lohiniva Now You Need It, Now You Don’t: Alternatives and Contrariety
12.40-14.10 Lunch
14.10-14.50 Moreno Mitrovic Microscopy and diachrony of Boolean atoms: morphosyntactic change of logical constants
14.50-15.30 Saloua Chatti The Meanings of Logical Constants in al-Farabi’s and Avicenna’s Theories
15.30-16.00 Break
16.00-16.50 Invited speaker:
Johan van der Auwera
On the multiple exponence of clausal negation
Friday, February 6, 2015 – Room 6303
09.00-09.30 Coffee
09.30-10.20 Invited speaker:
Daniel Rothschild
How Classical are the Connectives?
10.20-10.50 Break
10.50-11.30 Nissim Francez A proof-theoretic universal property of determiners
11.30-12.10 Fabien Schang No, No and No
12.10-13.40 Lunch
13.40-14.20 Martin Aher Conditional Oughts in Suppositional [Inquistive] Semantics
14.20-15.00 Hans Smessaert and Lorenz Demey One-sided versus two-sided readings of “many” and “few”
15.00-15.30 Break
15.30-16.10 Robert van Rooij Interpreting by the gap hypothesis and pragmatic reasoning