9am. Registration, welcome
Session 1 (chair Michela Ippolito)
9.30 – 10
Why should there be any weak islands at all?
Mojmír Dočekal (Masaryk University) & Ivona Kučerová
(MacMasters University)
10 – 10.30
The Syntax and Semantics of Opinion Verbs
David-Étienne Bouchard (McGill University)
10.30 – 11
Control and raising in Sinhala modal constructions
Tharanga Weerasooriya (University of Ottawa)
11-11.30 Coffee break
Session 2 (chair
Robert Truswell)
11:30-12
Baby steps: the acquisition of modality
Ailis Cournane, University of Toronto
12-1
Invited speaker
Remarks on embedded implicatures and counterfactual presuppositions
Remarks on embedded implicatures and counterfactual presuppositions
Michela Ippolito (University of Toronto)
1-2 Lunch break
Session 3 (chair Junko Shimoyama)
2-2.10
Three types of Norwegian superlatives: each tool for its own task
Alexandra Simonenko (McGill University)
2.10-2.20
Semantics of Japanese passives as applicatives
Yoriko Aizu (University of Ottawa)
2.20 – 2.30
Processing quantified DPs and covert movement
Alanah McKillen (Mcgill University)
2.30 – 2.40
Why telicity cannot be imperfective: Telicity judgments
reconsidered.
Bettina Spreng (University of Toronto)
2.40 – 2.50
Typological Implications of Mi'gmaq Indefinite Pronouns
Gretchen McCulloch (McGill University)
2.50 - 3.
Typological considerations on modality: Evidence from Paciran
Javanese
Jozina Vander Klok (McGill University)
3-4 coffee and posters
Session 4 (chair
Tharanga Weerasooriya)
4-4.30
The nature of ignorance implications arising from superlative quantifiers
Brian Buccola (McGill University)
4:30-5:30
Invited speaker (TBA)
5.30 – 6 Business meeting
7pm. Dinner