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Friday, October 29

 
 8:45-9:15                

Registration/Coffee

 9:15-9:45
Introduction
Anamaria Falaus, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes
 9:45-10:45
Phenomena involving alternatives: experimental comparison pdf
Emmanuel Chemla, Institut Jean Nicod
 10:45-11:15  

Coffee break

 11:15-12:00
Widening as entropy
Jacques Jayez, ENS Lyon
 12:00-12:45
Inquisitive and alternative semantics pdf
Jeroen Groenendijk & Floris Roelofsen, ILLC, Amsterdam
 12:45-14:45
Lunch break

 14:45-15:45
Spanish Plural Indefinites and Dependent Plurality: The Role of Scalar Alternatives pdf
Paula Menéndez-Benito & Luis Alonso-Ovalle, University of Göttingen & University of Massachussets Boston
 15:45-16:15
 
Coffee break

 16:15-17:00 

Ignorance in free relatives via a wideness constraint on Hamblin alternatives
Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University
 17:00-17:45
What we gain and what we lose with a Hamblin semantics
for free-choice pdf
Anastasia Giannakidou & Josep Quer, University of Chicago & Universitat Pompeu Fabra


  


 20:00                     Dinner


Saturday, October 30


 8:30-9:00                      
Coffee

 9:00-10:00

Alternative-based semantics combined with movement: the role of presupposition
pdf
Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz
 10:00-10:30 
Coffee break

 10:30-11:15
Domain alternatives cause intervention effects in German wh-questions pdf
Clemens Mayr, ZAS
 11:15-12:00
English FCI: Plurality, Universality and Definiteness pdf
Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University
 12:00-14:00
Lunch break

 14:00-15:00
On the Role of Alternatives in Polarity and Intervention Phenomena pdf
Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University
 15:00-15:30 
Coffee break

 15:30-16:15
Alternatives in Givenness Marking pdf
Michael Wagner, McGill University
 16:15-17:00
Mere-ology pdf
Elizabeth Coppock & David Beaver, University of Texas at  Austin
 17:00-18:00
Discussion


                      

Alternate talks:

Contrastive Topic: A Reductionist Approach - Uli Sauerland, ZAS

Prosody and interpretation of disjunctive questions - Kathryn Pruitt & Floris  Roelofsen, UMass & ILLC, Amsterdam



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Venue

Salle 211- Jorj Morin, Ateliers et Chantiers de Nantes, Campus Centre, building n°9 on this map