Hornucopia

Venue: Sterling Memorial Library, Memorabilia Room

		Friday, Nov. 6th
1:30		Welcoming remarks by Tamar Gendler, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
		Session 1: Syntax and Pragmatics
1:45		Donka Farkas, University of California at Santa Cruz From sentence forms to conventions of use via Horn’s pragmatic division of labor
2:30		Betty Birner, Northern Illinois University ‘Allo there! Pragmatics, inversion, and the type/token distinction.
3:15		Coffee break
		Session 2: Reference
3:30		Gregory Ward, Northwestern University Fearing that first question by Larry: Demonstratives licensed by familiar event-types
4:15		Barbara Abbott, Michigan State University Definiteness and familiarity
5:00		David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin Horn scales back uniqueness!
		Evening session
5:45		Drinks
6:30		Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts at Amherst An ever-so-brief history of semantics, pragmatics, and Larry
7:30		Dinner
		Saturday, November 7th
9:00		Breakfast
		Session 3: Neg-raising and Grammatical Theory
9:30		Anastasia Giannakidou, University of Chicago Assertoric Inertia and NPI-rescuing as veridicality conflict: A fresh look at NPI-licensing with emotive verbs
10:15		Pauline Jacobson, Brown University What ellipsis might tell us about ‘Neg Raising’ (and vice-versa)
11:00		Coffee Break
11:15		Jerry Sadock, University of Chicago Skinning the communicative cat
12:00		Jason Merchant, University of Chicago The 1AEX can be reduced to selection
12:45		Lunch break
		Session 4: Lexicon
2:30		Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University Semantics and pragmatics in/of transition
3:15		Ben Zimmer, Vocabulary.com & The Wall Street Journal Still unpacking after all these years: Non-trivial adventures in pop linguistics
4:00		Coffee break
		Session 5: Slurs and Epithets
4:15		Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers University A dual act analysis of slurs
5:00		Patricia Irwin, University of Pennsylvania Our asses, ourselves
		Getting the last word
5:45		Laurence R. Horn, Yale University

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