SNEWS 2007 Schedule



9:45-10:15am
Breakfast



10:15-10:45am
Head Movement as QR 
Junri Shimada (MIT)



10:45-11:15am
How do you Answer a Concealed Question?
Jesse Harris (UMass)



11:15-11:45am
The Chinese Operator ‘Dou’ and Implicatures
Hsiu-Chen Daphne Liao (Harvard)



11:45-12:00am
Coffee Break



12:00-12:30pm
Plural Superlatives Do Not Misbehave
Natasha Fitzgibbons with Yael Sharvit (Uconn)



12:30-1:00pm
Adversity and Causality: a Case Study of Taiwanese
Yuan-chen Jenny Yang (Yale)



1:00-1:30pm
Relative Clauses, Domain Restrictions and Functional NPs
Emma Cunningham (Brown)



1:30-2:30pm
Lunch (provided)
(2:15-2:30pm “Business Meeting” for department representatives (i.e., who will host SNEWS 2008?))



2:30-3:00pm
(Un)biased Negative Yes-No Questions in Japanese
Masahiko Aihara (Uconn)



3:00-3:30pm
The World on Time
Ezra Keshet (MIT)



3:30-3:45pm
Coffee Break (and diorama vote!)



3:45-4:15pm
Canonical Switch-Reference and Categorical Judgments
Andrew McKenzie (UMass)



4:15-4:45pm
Numerals and Scalar Implicatures
Daniele Panizza (Harvard/University of Trento, Italy)



4:45-5:15pm
Informational Constraints on “Copy Raising”
Jennifer Mack (Yale)



5:15pm-??
Diorama Contest Results, then drinks at Cambridge Brewing Company




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