Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT)
11th Annual Meeting

New York University
May 11-13, 2001

703 Main Building, 100 Washington Square East
(elevators on the Waverly Street entrance side stop at the 7th floor)

Schedule (updated 7 May 2001)

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**May 11, Friday**

8:30 Registration, coffee
9:15 Welcome
9:30 MARIA BITTNER (Rutgers): Topical Referents for Individuals and Possibilities
10:30 Andrea Gualmini, Stephen Crain, Luisa Meroni (Maryland), & Gennaro Chierchia, Maria Teresa Guasti (Milano): At the semantics/pragmatics interface in child language

11:10 ---Coffee Break---

11:30 Daniel Büring (UCLA): Variable binding out of DP revisited
12:10 Paul Elbourne (MIT): When is situation semantics allowed?

12:50 ---Lunch Break---

2:50 TANYA REINHART (Tel Aviv/Utrecht): Experiencing Derivations
3:50 Alessandra Giorgi (Venezia) & Fabio Pianesi (IRST): Tense, attitudes and subjects

4:30 ---Coffee Break---

4:50 Cecile Meier (Frankfurt/NYU): Result clauses
5:30 Stefan Kaufmann (Stanford): Probabilities of conditionals

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**May 12, Saturday**

9:15 Registration, coffee
9:30 PAUL DEKKER (Amsterdam): On "If" and "Only"
10:30 Marcin Morzycki (UMass Amherst): Almost and its kin, across categories

11:10 ---Coffee Break---

11:30 Tim Fernando (Trinity College Dublin): Conservative generalized quantifiers and presuppositions
12:10 Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon): Rethinking context

12:50 ---Lunch Break---

2:50 BARRY SCHEIN (USC), Adverbial, Descriptive Reciprocals
3:50 Richard Larson & Masha Vassilieva (SUNY Stony Brook): The semantics of plural pronouns

4:30 ---Coffee Break---

4:50 Alexis Dimitriadis (Utrecht): Function domains in variable-free semantics
5:30 Chris Barker (UC San Diego): Continuations: in-situ quantification without storage or type-shifting

6:20 Business meeting

7:00 ---Party---

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**May 13, Sunday**

9:15 Coffee
9:30 Christopher Piñón, Düsseldorf): A finer look at the causative-inchoative distinction
10:10 Hana Filip (Northwestern): The semantics of Russian secondary predicates

10:50 ---Coffee Break---

11:10 Friederike Moltmann (Liverpool): Two kinds of universals and two kinds of groups
11:50 KIT FINE (NYU): The Statue and The Clay

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Alternates:

Degree relatives are ordinary relatives (Alastair Butler, York)
On the computation of conversational implicatures (Uli Sauerland, Tübingen)
Distributivity in an event semantics (Sei-Rang Oh, UConn)
Be going to: a case of high aspect(Bridget Copley, MIT)
A crosslinguistic perspective on the expression of manner (Lisa Matthewson & Ana Arregui, UMass Amherst)

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The available abstracts may also be downloaded as a single .zip file:

Salt 11 Abstracts

Last Modified: August 10, 2001