TOM 9

The Ninth Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop

April 23, 2016, McGill University

In the Ballroom of Thomson House (David Thomson Post-Graduate Centre)

3650 McTavish Street

8:30-9:00                          Breakfast and registration

Session 1

9:00-9:30                          Tomohiro Yokoyama (University of Toronto)
                                         “Three Presuppositions of wh-exclamatives in English”

9:30-10:00                        Francesco Gentile (McGill University)
                                         “Degree questions and collective predication: a puzzle for interval semantics”

10:00-10:30                      Kunio Hessel, Ashley Sokalski, and Lisa Sullivan (Carleton University)
                                        “The distributive hierarchy and scope ambiguities: All, every, and each in English and Swedish”

10:30-11:00                      Coffee break

Session 2

11:00-11:30                      Ehsan Amjadian and Joel D.D. Baylis (Carleton University)
                                         “Neural network embedding for bridging reference resolution”

11:30-12:30                      Invited speaker

                                         Michela Ippolito (University of Toronto)

                                                   “Constraints on the embeddability of epistemic modals"

12:30-14:00                      Lunch and poster session

Session 3

14:00-14:30                      Jumanah Abdulwahab I Abusulaiman (University of Ottawa)
                                        “Epistemic modality in Makkan Arabic: the case of qad”

14:30-15:00                      Dan Goodhue (McGill University)
                                        “VERUM focus and epistemic bias in English polar questions”

15:00-15:30                      Giuseppe Ricciardi (University of Toronto)
                                        “The evidential restriction of the Italian epistemic future”

15:30-16:00                      Coffee break (and business meeting)

Session 4

16:00-16:30                      Brandon J. Fry and Eric Mathieu (University of Ottawa)
                                        “A study of the semantics of Ojibwe cross-clausal agreement”

16:30-17:30                      Invited speaker
                                         Guillaume Thomas (University of Toronto)

                                        "Circumstantial modality and the diversity condition"

Posters 

Kaz Bamba (University of Toronto)
“The Contrastive Morpheme HOO in Japanese Comparative Constructions”

Dan Goodhue (McGill University)
“A: No, we don’t know what no means. B: Yeah no, I know.”

Angelika Kiss (University of Toronto)
“The Negative Wh-Construction in the discourse”

Can Mekik and Michael Vertolli (Carleton University)
“Towards Computer Implementations of exh”

Vesela Simeonova (University of Ottawa)
“Mirativity in Bulgarian and Turkish: a semantic account”