Program

Wednesday June 3^rd, 2015

from 20:00

Warming up at beer garden Schleusenkrug

Thursday June 4^th, 2015

09:15-09:45	Registration
09:45-09:50	Welcome
09:50-10:50	Dejan Matic (MPI Nijmegen) Discourse Expectations as Information Structure Categories in Tundra Yukaghir
10:50-11:20	Coffee break
11:20-12:00	Upsorn Tawilapakul The Copular Effects on the Exhaustive Interpretation of Thai Wh-Clefts
12:00-12:40	Zuzanna Fuchs Contrast vs New Information Focus in Floating Clitics in Wakhi
12:40-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:40	Omer Korat Quantification over singular terms in Hebrew
14:40-15:20	I-Ta Chris Hsieh and Zheng Shen The ‘associative reading’ of DPs and the Quantity vs. Quality Distinction
15:20-15:50	Coffee break
15:50-16:30	Host talk: Crosslinguistic Research in Tübingen Anna Howell, Vera Hohaus, Verena Hehl, Polina Berezovskaya, Şehriban Erbektas, Karolina Greipel, Konstantin Sachs Crosslinguistic Variation in the Grammar of Alternatives
16:30-17:10	Host talk: Crosslinguistic Research in Potsdam Mira Grubic, Anne Mucha, Agata Renans
17:10-17:30	Business meeting
19:00	Workshop dinner at Bejte Ethiopia (Zietenstrasse 8)

Friday June 5^th, 2015

09:50-10:50	Seth Cable (UMass, Amherst) Graded Tenses in Complement Clauses: Evidence that Future is not a Tense
10:50-11:20	Coffee break
11:20-12:00	Eric Mccready and Upsorn Tawilapakul Particles, Issues and Intonation: Analyzing the Thai Particle na
12:00-12:40	Thuan Tran Focus Marking in Lone Contrastive Topic Constructions: A puzzle from Vietnamese
12:40-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:40	Mingya Liu A multidimensional semantic analysis of Chinese chadian-mei
14:40-15:20	Margit Bowler Degrees and modification in Warlpiri
15:20-15:50	Coffee break
15:50-16:50	Kilu von Prince (HU Berlin) In defense of events as a defining property of serial verb constructions