Please join the language science community at UC Irvine for the tenth California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop. CUSP 10 will be held on October 21 & 22, 2017. Founded in 2008, CUSP serves as an informal venue for the semantics/pragmatics community of California.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21
9:30–10:00 COFFEE & WELCOME
10:00–10:30 DEBORAH WONG (UCLA), Scope-taking determiners and continuations
10:30–11:00 ERIK HANS MAIER (BERKELEY), Quantifier unification: Bipartite universal
quantification in Tswefap
11:00–11:30 BREAK
11:30–12:00 CIYANG QING (STANFORD), Unifying three Mandarin dou constructions
12:00–12:30 HITOMI HIRAYAMA (UCSC), A QUD-based analysis of Japanese contrastive
wa
12:30–2:00 LUNCH
2:00–2:30 LELIA GLASS (STANFORD), Causative lexical semantics predicts distributivity
potential: A ratings study
2:30–3:00 GUILLERMO DEL PINAL (ZAS) & BRANDON WALDON (STANFORD), Must is weak, might
is strong: (More) experimental evidence
3:00–3:30 BREAK
3:30–4:00 DENIZ RUDIN (UCSC), Rising imperatives
4:00–4:30 RICHARD STOCKWELL (UCLA), Ellipsis isn’t trivial
4:30–5:00 MAURA O’LEARY (UCLA), Tense in cleft constructions
6:00–8:00 DINNER
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22
9:00–9:30 BREAKFAST
9:30–10:00 MICHAEL HENRY TESSLER (STANFORD) & MICHAEL FRANKE (TÜBINGEN), “She’s not
unhappy”: A partial solution to Krifka’s problem of negated antonyms
10:00–10:30 K.J. SAVINELLI, GREGORY SCONTRAS & LISA S. PEARL (UCI), Continuity in
development of scope ambiguity resolution and the importance of numeral semantics
10:30–11:00 BREAK
11:00–11:30 RACHEL RUDOLPH (BERKELEY), Appearance reports and the acquaintance inference
11:30–12:00 TORSTEN ODLAND (UCLA), What do we learn from truth-conditional semantic
explanations?
For more info, please see conference website