SNEWS 2004

Southern New England Workshop in Semantics

at Brown University

October 16, 2004

Time: 9:00 AM – 6 PM

Provisionally: Coffee, muffins and other breakfasty items will be served at 9 AM in Metcalf Research 125. Talks will commence at 9:30 in Metcalf Research 305. Metcalf Research is located at 190 Thayer Street in Providence. Click here for directions (including public transportation options). Click here for a map of campus. It should be easy to find parking on the streets within the rectangle defined by Waterman, Thayer, Charlesfield, and Hope (see links to maps above).

Call for papers

The annual Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS), previously known variously as the UMass-MIT semantics workshop, theUMass-UConn-MIT semantics workshop, and the Umass-UConn-MIT-Brown semantics workshop, will be held at Brown University on Saturday, October 16. SNEWS is a place for students and faculty to present their work and work-in-progress on semantics and its interfaces. Like last year, NELS will follow SNEWS, which makes SNEWS a good place to get feedback on NELS presentations.

The program so far:

9:00


Coffee and breakfast in Metcalf Research 125


9:30


Takuro Tanaka (UConn)

“Another 'many'”

10:15


Marcelo Ferreira (MIT)

“Bare Habituals, Plurality, and Definiteness”

11:00


Coffee break in Metcalf Research 125


11:30


Marketa Ceplova (MIT)

TBA

12:15


Benjamin Russell (Brown)

“Functional parasitic gaps”

1:00


Lunch


2:30


Lance Nathan (MIT)

“Understanding what this title means: Theories of embedding questions”

3:15


Lynsey Wolter (visiting UMass from UCSC)

“On the status of the nonuniqueness implication of demonstratives”

4:00


Coffee break in Metcalf Research 125


4:30


Kimiko Nakanishi (UConn)

TBA