CUSP Program
| 8:45-9:30 | breakfast |
| 9:30-10:00 | Pluractionality and Pluractionality-based Distributivity (in Kaqchikel) [abstract] [handout] Robert Henderson, UCSC |
| 10:00-10:30 | A Game-theoretic Analysis of Copula Emergence in Saramaccan [abstract] Jessica Spencer, Stanford |
| 10:30-11:00 | A Pragmatic Resolution of a Semantic Conflict [abstract] [handout] Hyuna B. Kim, USC |
| 11:00-11:30 | break |
| 11:30-12:00 | Performing A Wish: Desiderative Assertions and Performativity [abstract] [handout] Cleo Condoravdi, PARC and Sven Lauer, Stanford |
| 12:00-12:30 | For Want of Want: The Communication of Desire in (A Few) Australian Languages [abstract] Alice Gaby, UCB |
| 12:30-1:00 | Semantic Restrictions on the Antecedent of Do So [abstract] [handout] Michael J. Houser, UCB |
| 1:00-2:30 | lunch |
| 2:30-3:00 | Measuring Difference [abstract] [handout] Jessica Rett, UCLA |
| 3:00-3:30 | Evolution of Instrumental Component Realization within an Intended Action in Middle English [abstract] Olena Andrushenko, ZSU/Stanford |
| 3:30-4:00 | Construct State Nominals: For a Predicate Approach [abstract] Sarah Ouwayda, USC |
| 4:00-4:30 | break |
| 4:30-5:00 | On the Existential Presupposition of Questions [abstract] [handout] Scott AnderBois, UCSC |
| 5:00-5:30 | Question as a Set of Characters: A case of Korean Evidentials [abstract] [handout] Dongsik Lim, USC |
| 5:30-5:40 | Business Meeting |