Kick-off workshop Scalarity at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (SYSSI)

March 3, 2025

Time: March 3 – 4, 2025
  Location: Universität Stuttgart, Keplerstr. 17 (building K2), 70174 Stuttgart; Room: M 17.81
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Daniel Hole, Dr. Alexander Wimmer und Daniel Büring (University of Vienna)
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March 3, 2025
Time Speaker
09:30-09:45 Opening remarks
09:45-10:45 Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
Conditional conjunctions on the scale
10:45-11:15 coffee break
11:15-11:45 David Müller (Université de Genève)
Only to forget it in the fridge: a compositional account of German prospective clauses with nur
11:45-12:15 Ka-Fai Yip (Yale)
Scalarity in exclusive doubling
12:15-13:45 lunch break
13:45-14:15 Daniel Aremu (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
An operator-particle approach with a distributed syntax for exclusives in Yorùbá
14:15-15:15 Daniel Hole & Alexander Wimmer (Universität Stuttgart)
Conditional evaluative constructions in Mandarin
15:15-15.45 coffee break
15:45-16:15 Letizia Raminelli, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch & Maria Teresa Guasti (Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, ...)
Assessing scalar meaning: a first experimental investigation on some scalar-additive focus operators in Italian
16:15-17:15 Aron Hirsch (University of Maryland)
Constraining complex alternatives

 

March 4, 2025
Time Speaker
09:00-10:00 Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan University)
(Not) (just) another scalar exclusive: parameters along which scalar operators vary
10:00-10:30 coffee break
10:30-11:00 Polina Berezovskaya (Universität Tübingen)
Scalarity beyond degree scales - the case of the metalinguistic suffix -rka in Tundra Nenets
11:00-12:00 Rong He & Mingming Liu (Tsinghua University)
Haishi and alternative questions in Mandarin [online]
12:00-13:30 lunch break
13:30-14:00 Hsiu-Chen Daphne Liao (National Chiao-Tung University)
Necessity and exhaustivity: Mandarin jiu
14:00-14:30 Closing remarks & final discussion

 

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Daniel Hole

Prof. Dr.

Head of Department
Dean of Faculty 9

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Alexander Wimmer

Dr.

Research and Teaching Associate

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