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Tuesday, September 23 — Special Session LingDem Room C (IG 411)
09:00 – 09:40	Registration & coffee
09:40 – 10:00	Special session welcome Cornelia Ebert, Ulrich Breuer, Sebastian Walter, Lennart Fritzsche
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Cornelia Ebert Invited talk Floris Roelofsen Polar questions in Dutch Sign Language
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Session I Chair: Kathryn Barnes
11:30 – 12:10	Carla Umbach Quotation marking by similarity – on the notion of demonstrations
12:10 – 12:50	Jooyoung Lee The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrational like: A Two-Tiered Approach
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch break
	Session II Chair: Markus Steinbach
14:00 – 14:40	David Blunier & Ludyvine Couteau Reduplication as intensification. Evidence from French Sign Language
14:40 – 15:20	Thomas A. Finkbeiner, Nina-Kristin Meister, Patrick C. Trettenbrein Lexical demonstrations and word classes in German Sign Language (DGS)
15:20 – 16:00	Poster session
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Session III Chair: Sebastian Walter
16:30 – 17:10	Ying Zhang, Dorothy Ahn The most descriptive depiction
17:10 – 17:50	Mailin Antomo, Yuqiu Chen Diagnosing (not-)at-issueness of iconic co-speech gestures
19:00	Warming-up / special session dinner

Tuesday, September 23 — Special Session LingDem Room C (IG 411)
09:00 – 09:40	Registration & coffee
09:40 – 10:00	Special session welcome Cornelia Ebert, Ulrich Breuer, Sebastian Walter, Lennart Fritzsche
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Cornelia Ebert Invited talk Floris Roelofsen Polar questions in Dutch Sign Language
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Session I Chair: Kathryn Barnes
11:30 – 12:10	Carla Umbach Quotation marking by similarity – on the notion of demonstrations
12:10 – 12:50	Jooyoung Lee The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrational like: A Two-Tiered Approach
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch break
	Session II Chair: Markus Steinbach
14:00 – 14:40	David Blunier & Ludyvine Couteau Reduplication as intensification. Evidence from French Sign Language
14:40 – 15:20	Thomas A. Finkbeiner, Nina-Kristin Meister, Patrick C. Trettenbrein Lexical demonstrations and word classes in German Sign Language (DGS)
15:20 – 16:00	Poster session
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Session III Chair: Sebastian Walter
16:30 – 17:10	Ying Zhang, Dorothy Ahn The most descriptive depiction
17:10 – 17:50	Mailin Antomo, Yuqiu Chen Diagnosing (not-)at-issueness of iconic co-speech gestures
19:00	Warming-up / special session dinner

Posters

Eddy G. Ruys

Proximity in endophoric demonstratives
Christopher Saure, Stefan Hinterwimmer (Alternate)

Perspective shift in speech and thought event reports: A mixed-quotation analysis of indirect discourse
Vanessa Wing Yan Tsang, Gladys Tang, Aaron Yiu Leung Wong

Beyond categorical handshapes: Iconicity and role-shift in entity classifier predicates in Hong Kong Sign Language
Sybil Vachaudez, Samantha Prins, Juan Ajsivinac, Carlo Geraci, Robert Henderson, Jeremy Kuhn

Revisiting sign language classifiers: (How) do classifiers classify?

Wednesday, September 24 — Main Session (Day 1)
09:00 – 09:40	Registration & coffee
	ROOM A IG 254	ROOM B IG 311	ROOM C IG 411
09:40 – 10:00	Main session welcome Cornelia Ebert, Viera Pirker, Rembert Hüser, Sebastian Walter
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Cécile Meier Invited talk Orin Percus Identity issues after Flight AF 006
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 1a Chair: Uli Sauerland	Contributed session 1b Chair: Orin Percus	Contributed session 1c Chair: Keny Chatain
11:30 – 12:10	Manfred Krifka Concept, kind and partitive anaphora in a dynamic framework	Yaxuan Wang On de re presupposition	Rick Nouwen Hyperbole as local reinterpretation
12:10 – 12:50	Tomasz Klochowicz, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Sonia Ramotowska, Oliver Bott, Maria Aloni Neglect zero: evidence from priming across constructions	Paul Meisenbichler Upper limit effects beyond tenses and the interdependence of worlds and times	Rafael Gutiérrez A formal semantic analysis of the Spanish quantifier prefixes multi– and pluri–
12:50 – 13:50	Lunch break
13:50 – 14:45	Announcements & Poster lightning talks I
14:45 – 14:55	Group photo
14:55 – 16:00	Poster session I
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 2a Chair: Manfred Krifka	Contributed session 2b Chair: Rick Nouwen	Contributed session 2c Chair: Luis Alonso-Ovalle
16:30 – 17:10	Giuseppe Varaschin, Antonio Machicao y Priemer A structurally uniform account of slur-based nominals	Yuta Tatsumi Temporal connectives and measure phrases in Japanese	Quartz Colvin A cover analysis of the plural classifier in Hmong
17:10 – 17:50	Tom Ralston The Illusion of Kind Predication	Mingjiang Chen A Causal Model Approach to the Agent Control Hypothesis	Haoze Li From alternatives to definites: A dynamic approach to short answers

Wednesday, September 24 — Main Session (Day 1)
09:00 – 09:40	Registration & coffee
	ROOM A IG 254	ROOM B IG 311	ROOM C IG 411
09:40 – 10:00	Main session welcome Cornelia Ebert, Viera Pirker, Rembert Hüser, Sebastian Walter
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Cécile Meier Invited talk Orin Percus Identity issues after Flight AF 006
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 1a Chair: Uli Sauerland	Contributed session 1b Chair: Orin Percus	Contributed session 1c Chair: Keny Chatain
11:30 – 12:10	Manfred Krifka Concept, kind and partitive anaphora in a dynamic framework	Yaxuan Wang On de re presupposition	Rick Nouwen Hyperbole as local reinterpretation
12:10 – 12:50	Tomasz Klochowicz, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Sonia Ramotowska, Oliver Bott, Maria Aloni Neglect zero: evidence from priming across constructions	Paul Meisenbichler Upper limit effects beyond tenses and the interdependence of worlds and times	Rafael Gutiérrez A formal semantic analysis of the Spanish quantifier prefixes multi– and pluri–
12:50 – 13:50	Lunch break
13:50 – 14:45	Announcements & Poster lightning talks I
14:45 – 14:55	Group photo
14:55 – 16:00	Poster session I
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 2a Chair: Manfred Krifka	Contributed session 2b Chair: Rick Nouwen	Contributed session 2c Chair: Luis Alonso-Ovalle
16:30 – 17:10	Giuseppe Varaschin, Antonio Machicao y Priemer A structurally uniform account of slur-based nominals	Yuta Tatsumi Temporal connectives and measure phrases in Japanese	Quartz Colvin A cover analysis of the plural classifier in Hmong
17:10 – 17:50	Tom Ralston The Illusion of Kind Predication	Mingjiang Chen A Causal Model Approach to the Agent Control Hypothesis	Haoze Li From alternatives to definites: A dynamic approach to short answers

Posters

Maumita Bhaumik
Difficulty in accessing the scalar alternative: What does children’s spontaneous feedback reveal?
David Blunier
Un étrange cas d’ellipse, mais pas que: diagnosing a new elliptical construction in French
Furkan Dikmen
Finding objects of experiences
Felix Frühauf
The German Discourse Particles Ruhig und JA
Jon Gajewski
A source-based ambiguity in the semantics of believe
Haoming Li, Yizhen Jiang
Oddness and probability-sensitivity of number-marked indefinites in negation and questions
Paul Marty, Guillermo Del Pinal, Patrick Elliott, Alexandros Kalomoiro, Jacopo Romoli
Presupposition projection in (non-)monotonic contexts
Anne Mucha, Wataru Uegaki, Antonella Sorace
Flavors of German necessity modals: experimental evidence
Takanobu Nakamura
Dependent modals
Kimiko Nakanishi
A Unified Analysis of Concessive Conditionals
Mats Rooth, Dorit Abusch (Alternate)
An Existential Semantics for Over-informative Attitudinal Embedding in Film
Emil Eva Rosina
The shared core of memory predicates is non-novel knowledge
Ryan Walter Smith
Decomposing memory reports: a Kurdish perspective
Xuetong Yuan
Conditionality without if: conditional marking strategies in Mandarin

Thursday, September 25 — Main Session (Day 2)
	ROOM A IG 254	ROOM B IG 311	ROOM C IG 411
09:15 – 10:00	Business meeting
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Alexandra Zinke Invited talk Julia Zakkou Modals, Mood, and Moore
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 3a Chair: Jon Gajewski	Contributed session 3b Chair: Julia Zakkou	Contributed session 3c Chair: Jacopo Romoli
11:30 – 12:10	Yingyu Su Compositional rhetoricality: the case of Cantonese sentence-final particles me1 and me↓	Samuel Wolf Cantor On certainly: a case study in the forms of epistemic modals	Yixuan Yan, Yitong Luo Declarative but not inquisitive disjunctors derive conjunctive inference in child language: What to flatten?
12:10 – 12:50	Despina Oikonomou Greek Directive Subjunctive Questions, High Negation Bias and Modality	Mingyeong Choi Exploring the Subjunctive Mood in Korean: Modal structures of -ki Across Constructions	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae Comparing disjunction across polarities: The source of strong interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences in child language is scope, not strengthening
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45	Poster lightning talks II
14:45 – 16:00	Poster session II
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 4a Chair: Stefan Hinterwimmer	Contributed session 4b Chair: Berit Gehrke	Contributed session 4c Chair: Lisa Hofmann
16:30 – 17:10	Naomi Francis, Patrick Georg Grosz, Pritty Patel-Grosz The FLING gesture as a marker of discourse status	Ariela Ye, Yaqing Hu When evidentiality meets deonticity: A case study of Nuosu Yi di and zo	Yusuke Yagi, Ka-Fai Yip Asymmetric reconstruction for binding but not for scope
17:10 – 17:50	Berry Claus, Felix Frühauf, Sophia Döring, Julian Rott sowieso ‘this way the same as that way’ ≠ so oder so ‘this way or that way’	Flavia Naehrlich, David Müller Expectations as presupposed weak necessities	Giuseppe Magistro, Alexandra Simonenko The emergence of “weak” definite articles
19:00	Conference dinner

Thursday, September 25 — Main Session (Day 2)
	ROOM A IG 254	ROOM B IG 311	ROOM C IG 411
09:15 – 10:00	Business meeting
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Alexandra Zinke Invited talk Julia Zakkou Modals, Mood, and Moore
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 3a Chair: Jon Gajewski	Contributed session 3b Chair: Julia Zakkou	Contributed session 3c Chair: Jacopo Romoli
11:30 – 12:10	Yingyu Su Compositional rhetoricality: the case of Cantonese sentence-final particles me1 and me↓	Samuel Wolf Cantor On certainly: a case study in the forms of epistemic modals	Yixuan Yan, Yitong Luo Declarative but not inquisitive disjunctors derive conjunctive inference in child language: What to flatten?
12:10 – 12:50	Despina Oikonomou Greek Directive Subjunctive Questions, High Negation Bias and Modality	Mingyeong Choi Exploring the Subjunctive Mood in Korean: Modal structures of -ki Across Constructions	Adina Camelia Bleotu, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae Comparing disjunction across polarities: The source of strong interpretations of negative disjunctive sentences in child language is scope, not strengthening
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 14:45	Poster lightning talks II
14:45 – 16:00	Poster session II
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 4a Chair: Stefan Hinterwimmer	Contributed session 4b Chair: Berit Gehrke	Contributed session 4c Chair: Lisa Hofmann
16:30 – 17:10	Naomi Francis, Patrick Georg Grosz, Pritty Patel-Grosz The FLING gesture as a marker of discourse status	Ariela Ye, Yaqing Hu When evidentiality meets deonticity: A case study of Nuosu Yi di and zo	Yusuke Yagi, Ka-Fai Yip Asymmetric reconstruction for binding but not for scope
17:10 – 17:50	Berry Claus, Felix Frühauf, Sophia Döring, Julian Rott sowieso ‘this way the same as that way’ ≠ so oder so ‘this way or that way’	Flavia Naehrlich, David Müller Expectations as presupposed weak necessities	Giuseppe Magistro, Alexandra Simonenko The emergence of “weak” definite articles
19:00	Conference dinner

Posters

Yurika Aonuki, Kathryn Davidson (Alternate)
On the QUD sensitivity of a third reading
Carla Bombi
Non-focal demonstratives: Deixis with Spanish adjectival that
Youngdong Cho
Encoding negative bias in wh-polar questions
Anamaria Fălăuș, Andreea Nicolae
The bias-inducing potential of existential quantifiers in questions
Achille Fusco, Tommaso Sgrizzi
Belief, Intention and Eventuality Abstraction in the Non-finite Domain
Yiyang Guo
Event counting and discontinuity of the experiential perfect
Yizhen Jiang, Haoming Li, J. Cooper Roberts
Passamaquoddy quantifiers: outlier of distributivity-number generalization?
Austin Kraft
Two lives for numerals: Evidence from Javanese
Robin Lemke
Fragment usage is constrained by game-theoretic pragmatic reasoning – An experimental approach
Federica Longo, Daniele Panizza, Greta Mazzaggio, Bob van Tiel
The (in)felicity of a dog or a reindeer. On the interpretation and processing of ignorance and scalar inferences triggered by disjunction.
Edgar Onea, Ivona Kučerová
The Unbearable Simplicity of Being Something
Maribel Romero
Modally interpreted relative clauses in Spanish: The role of mood
Peter R. Sutton (Alternate)
Gradable abstract nouns and eventualities

Friday, September 26 — Main Session (Day 3)
	ROOM A IG 254	ROOM B IG 311	ROOM C IG 411
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Cornelia Ebert Invited talk Magdalena Kaufmann Perspectives on possibility modals
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 5a Chair: Thomas Ede Zimmermann	Contributed session 5b Chair: Andreea Nicolae	Contributed session 5c Chair: Magdalena Kaufmann
11:30 – 12:10	Jeremy Kuhn Distributive concord with complex licensing	Adèle Hénot-Mortier Covert operators are picked to minimize QuD-ambiguity: the view from pex and only	Daniel Büring A New Semantics for Attitude Reports
12:10 – 12:50	Elizabeth Coppock Unifying arithmetic and mereological division	David Y. Oshima On the semantics of the response item that’s right	Sreekar Raghotham Moving to the center
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch break
	Contributed session 6a Chair: Daniel Büring	Contributed session 6b Chair: Giorgio Sbardolini	Contributed session 6c Chair: Maribel Romero
14:00 – 14:40	Frank Sode, Sarah Zobel Circumstantial possibility with degrees: the case of German bar-adjectives	Yiqian Wang, Kathryn Davidson Presupposition filtering in disjunction: What role does exclusive interpretation play?	Carla Bombi, Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur Akan quasi-names — New fieldwork data on definite bare nouns
14:40 – 15:20	Malhaar Shah Future/epistemic ambiguities as event-relativity: evidence from Gujarati	Keny Chatain Ignorance inferences and presuppositions: a new Neo-Gricean challenge	Naomi Francis Capturing degree uses of even
15:20 – 16:00	Emily Knick, Eli Sharf On focus and the perfect aspect	Yichi (Raven) Zhang Imperative-or-Declaratives and Practical Triviality	Jun Tamura A clausal analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 7a Chair: Mats Rooth	Contributed session 7b Chair: Claudia Maienborn	Contributed session 7c Chair: Carla Umbach
16:30 – 17:10	Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Bernhard Schwarz Pied piping in the composition of degrees	Vincent Czarnecki, Dorothy Ahn Recycling Spatial Representations for Temporal Interpretations: Korean Verb Compunding Constructions	Elena Albu, Barbara Kaup Understanding Negative Events: Referential Status and Mental Representation
17:10 – 17:50	Berit Gehrke, Predrag Kovačević, Marko Simonović The importance of having a degree: The semantics of attributive short and long form adjectives in BCMS	Frauke Buscher-Schiewe Pseudo-depictive predicates as event kind modifiers	Tomasz Klochowicz, Giorgio Sbardolini, Maria Aloni Cognitive bias approach to the acquisition of disjunction
17:50 – 18:00	Closing
19:30	Special session dinner (PhilLingNeg)

Friday, September 26 — Main Session (Day 3)
	ROOM A IG 254	ROOM B IG 311	ROOM C IG 411
10:00 – 11:10	Chair: Cornelia Ebert Invited talk Magdalena Kaufmann Perspectives on possibility modals
11:10 – 11:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 5a Chair: Thomas Ede Zimmermann	Contributed session 5b Chair: Andreea Nicolae	Contributed session 5c Chair: Magdalena Kaufmann
11:30 – 12:10	Jeremy Kuhn Distributive concord with complex licensing	Adèle Hénot-Mortier Covert operators are picked to minimize QuD-ambiguity: the view from pex and only	Daniel Büring A New Semantics for Attitude Reports
12:10 – 12:50	Elizabeth Coppock Unifying arithmetic and mereological division	David Y. Oshima On the semantics of the response item that’s right	Sreekar Raghotham Moving to the center
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch break
	Contributed session 6a Chair: Daniel Büring	Contributed session 6b Chair: Giorgio Sbardolini	Contributed session 6c Chair: Maribel Romero
14:00 – 14:40	Frank Sode, Sarah Zobel Circumstantial possibility with degrees: the case of German bar-adjectives	Yiqian Wang, Kathryn Davidson Presupposition filtering in disjunction: What role does exclusive interpretation play?	Carla Bombi, Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur Akan quasi-names — New fieldwork data on definite bare nouns
14:40 – 15:20	Malhaar Shah Future/epistemic ambiguities as event-relativity: evidence from Gujarati	Keny Chatain Ignorance inferences and presuppositions: a new Neo-Gricean challenge	Naomi Francis Capturing degree uses of even
15:20 – 16:00	Emily Knick, Eli Sharf On focus and the perfect aspect	Yichi (Raven) Zhang Imperative-or-Declaratives and Practical Triviality	Jun Tamura A clausal analysis of a class of phrasal comparatives in Japanese
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
	Contributed session 7a Chair: Mats Rooth	Contributed session 7b Chair: Claudia Maienborn	Contributed session 7c Chair: Carla Umbach
16:30 – 17:10	Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Bernhard Schwarz Pied piping in the composition of degrees	Vincent Czarnecki, Dorothy Ahn Recycling Spatial Representations for Temporal Interpretations: Korean Verb Compunding Constructions	Elena Albu, Barbara Kaup Understanding Negative Events: Referential Status and Mental Representation
17:10 – 17:50	Berit Gehrke, Predrag Kovačević, Marko Simonović The importance of having a degree: The semantics of attributive short and long form adjectives in BCMS	Frauke Buscher-Schiewe Pseudo-depictive predicates as event kind modifiers	Tomasz Klochowicz, Giorgio Sbardolini, Maria Aloni Cognitive bias approach to the acquisition of disjunction
17:50 – 18:00	Closing
19:30	Special session dinner (PhilLingNeg)

Saturday, September 27 — Special Session PhilLingNeg Room C (IG 411)
09:00 – 09:10	Special session welcome
09:10 – 10:20	Chair: Cécile Meier Invited talk Elena Herburger The relation between Negative Polarity and Negative Concord
10:20 – 11:20	Poster session & coffee break
	Session I Chair: Carolin Reinert
11:20 – 12:00	Seo-young Lee A New View on NAmE High Negated Questions: Experimental Evidence and Analysis
12:00 – 13:10	Lunch break (pizza on-site)
	Session II Chair: Manfred Sailer
13:10 – 13:50	Muxuan He, Deniz Rudin, Elsi Kaiser Revisiting the context-update potential of negation at the level of speaker rationality
13:50 – 14:30	Lisa Hofmann Experimental evidence for counterfactual propositions as “negative” anaphoric antecedents
14:30 – 15:00	Coffee break
	Session III Chair: Alexandra Zinke
15:00 – 15:40	Giorgio Sbardolini Harmony and Negative Polarity
15:40 – 16:10	Fare-well

Saturday, September 27 — Special Session PhilLingNeg Room C (IG 411)
09:00 – 09:10	Special session welcome
09:10 – 10:20	Chair: Cécile Meier Invited talk Elena Herburger The relation between Negative Polarity and Negative Concord
10:20 – 11:20	Poster session & coffee break
	Session I Chair: Carolin Reinert
11:20 – 12:00	Seo-young Lee A New View on NAmE High Negated Questions: Experimental Evidence and Analysis
12:00 – 13:10	Lunch break (pizza on-site)
	Session II Chair: Manfred Sailer
13:10 – 13:50	Muxuan He, Deniz Rudin, Elsi Kaiser Revisiting the context-update potential of negation at the level of speaker rationality
13:50 – 14:30	Lisa Hofmann Experimental evidence for counterfactual propositions as “negative” anaphoric antecedents
14:30 – 15:00	Coffee break
	Session III Chair: Alexandra Zinke
15:00 – 15:40	Giorgio Sbardolini Harmony and Negative Polarity
15:40 – 16:10	Fare-well

Posters

Mingyang Bian (Alternate)

Interpreting Negation under Yiqian ‘Before’ in Mandarin Chinese
Yaqing Cao, Haoze Li

Negation, Ability Modal, and Causation: How to Derive (Anti)-Actuality Entailments?
Mojmír Dočekal, Lucie Chumchalová

NPIs, inferences and double licensing: experimental evidence
Aarti Joshi

The King of France is not bald: Metalinguistic negation in the depth-charge illusion
Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Alberto Frasson, Piotr Gulgowski

On Inhibited Eventualities: Insights from East versus West and South West Slavic
Andy Lücking, Leon Hammerla, Alexander Mehler

Not every quantifier can be negated
Claudia Maienborn, Frauke Buscher, Carolin Dudschig, Barbara Kaup

“Wait a Minute!” That’s Not the Same! Semantic vs. World Knowledge Violations

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