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Friday April 20
Registration 8.30
- 9 (Simard 125)
9-9.30
Aynat Rubinstein, Dan Simonson, Joo Chung, Hillary Harner,
Graham Katz and Paul Portner (Georgetown University)
Developing a methodology for modality-type annotations on a
large scale
9.30 – 10
Remus Gergel (Tubingen University)
New looks at Old English Modals
10– 10.30
Igor Yanovich (MIT)
Modal hopes and fears: a diachronic case study
10.30 – 11
Tyler Peterson (Leiden University)
Root modality and the ordering source in Gitksan
break 11 – 11.30
Chair: Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa)
11.30 – 12
Mira Grubic and Anne Mucha (Postdam University)
Explaining the modal readings of Hausa sai (= “only”)
12 – 1 Invited talk
Lisa Matthewson (co-authored with Hotze Rullmann, University
of British Columbia)
Epistemic modality with a past temporal perspective
lunch 1 – 2.30
Chair: Hotze Rullmann (University of British Columbia)
2.30 – 3
Bridget Copley (CNRS/Paris 8)
Wanting good cheese and acting to get it: Anankastic
conditionals and intent
3 – 3.30
Ilaria Frana (Göttingen
University )
Adnominal conditionals and modal NPs
3.30 – 4
Luis Alonso Ovalle and Junko Shimoyama (McGill University)
Modality in the nominal domain: exploring Japanese wh-ka
indeterminates
4-4.30
Luis Alonso Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito (McGill
University and Göttingen University)
Indifference and modality: the case of Spanish uno cualquier
break 4.30- 5
Chair: Andrés Salanova (University of Ottawa)
5 – 5.30
5 – 5.30
Aynat Rubinstein (Georgetown University)
Straddling the line between attitude verbs and necessity
modals
5.30 – 6.30 invited talk
Sabine Iatridou, MIT
Modals and negation
dinner
Saturday April 21
Chair: María Biezma (Carleton University)
9-9.30
9-9.30
Camelia Constantinescu, Jenny Doetjes and Johan Rooryck
(Leiden University)
How syntactic categories restrict the modal base
9.30 – 10
Fabienne Martin and Florian Schäfer (Stuttgart University )
The modality of offer
and other prospective causative verbs
Posters 10- 12 (with coffee in Simard 125)
Chair: María Luisa Rivero (University of Ottawa)
12. – 1 invited talk
Angelika Kratzer (UMass)
Modals as building blocks for attitude ascriptions
lunch 1 – 2.30
Chair: Robert Truswell (University of Ottawa)
2.30 – 3
2.30 – 3
Ashwini Deo (Yale University)
Settling the future: aspectual marking and performative
effects in Marathi
3 – 3.30
Bronwyn Bjorkman and Claire Halpert (Northeastern University
and MIT)
In an imperfect world: deriving the typology of
counterfactual marking
3.30 – 4
Peter Klecha (University of Chicago)
Modals are, like various other expressions, subject to imprecision
4-4.30
Ana Arregui, María Luisa Rivero and Andrés Salanova
(University of Ottawa)
Variation in imperfectives
Farewell coffee
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Posters Session:
David-Etienne Bouchard (McGill University)
Opinion verbs are not opaque
Sihwei Chen (University of British Columbia)
The temporal interpretation of modals in Mandarin Chinese
Rebecca Laturnus (University of British Columbia)
Future modals in Ktunaxa
Jozina van der Klok (McGill University)
Towards a semantic typology of modality: evidence from
Paciran Javanese
Marleen van der Vate (ZAS)
Future interpretations in Saamaka: tense or modality?
Lavi Wolf (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Epistemic modals, truth conditions and speech acts