PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS

Monday, Aug 4, 2008

• Hans-Christian Schmitz (Goethe Universität Frankfurt & Fraunhofer FIT), Henk Zeevat (ILLC, Amsterdam): Short introduction
• Bernhard Fisseni (Universität Duisburg-Essen) : 'Sowieso und überhaupt' and 'Sowieso en überhaupt'    [ abstract ]
• Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh), Rashmi Prasad (University of Pennsylvania): Sentence-Initial Discourse Connectives, Discourse Structure and Semantics    [ abstract ]

Tuesday, Aug 5, 2008

• Anna Lobanova (Universiteit Groningen): Conventional implicatures induced by Russian connective 'a'    [ abstract ]
• Carla Umbach, Cornelia Endriss (Universität Osnabrück): German demonstrative 'so' -- intensifying and hedging effects    [ abstract ]
• Sumiyo Nishiguchi (Osaka University): Presupposition Accommodation of Discourse-Initial 'Too'    [ abstract ]

Wednesday, Aug 6, 2008

• Daniel Gutzmann (Universität Mainz): Hybrid Semantics for Discourse Particles and Sentence Mood    [ abstract ]
• Christoper Potts (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Pragmatic enrichment via expressive content (invited speaker)    [ abstract ]

Thursday, Aug 7, 2008

• Gerhard Schaden, Lucia M. Tovena (Université Paris 7, CNRS LLF): Sharpening the adequacy of a characterisation -- The semantics of German 'gerade'    [ abstract ]
• Yoshie Yamamori (Kobe University): Quotations as Discourse Modal Particles    [ abstract ] (new)
• Ariel Cohen, Lavi Wolf (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Modal Adverbs as Negotiation Chips    [ abstract ]

Friday, Aug 8, 2008

• Lotte Hogeweg (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): The role frequency and semantic strength in the acquisition of the Dutch particle 'wel'    [ abstract ]
• Katja Jasinskaja (Universität Stuttgart): Contrast as Topic Management (new)
• Elena Karagjosova (Universitetet i Oslo & Universität Stuttgart): Towards a DRT-based account of adversative connectors    [ abstract ]

[ all abstracts in one file (pdf, 1,57 mb) ]