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
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Nov. 21, 2009