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School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

London Semantics Day 2018

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15 May 2018

Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: ArtsTwo 3.16

For the 5th London Semantics Day, we have the following talks:

Schedule  
10:00-10:45 Time without tense: what modal auxiliaries can teach us about infinitives Greg Williamson (UCL)
10:45-11:30 Are expressives presuppositions or something different altogether? Rodanthi Christofaki (Cambridge)
Break    
11:45-12:30 The present perfect puzzle: competition and implicatures Ruoying Zhao (UCL)
Lunch    
14:30-15:15 Uniqueness without existence in lmere Luisa Martí (QMUL)
15:15-16:00 Plurality inferences in dynamic semantics Yasu Sudo (UCL)
Break    
16:15-17:00 Russian imperfective past passive participles Berit Gehrke (Humboldt)

For more information, contact Luisa Martí (luisa.marti@qmul.ac.uk)