Several XPrag.de members will present at the “Sinn und Bedeutung 20″ conference, to be held at Tübingen University, September 9-12, 2015.
On Wednesday September 9th, there will be two talks at the special workshop on “Experimental Methodology in Semantics and Pragmatics”. Thomas Weskott (ProProCon) will talk on “Using Acceptability Judgments to Access Semantic Preferences” at 9:20 p.m.. XPrag.de associate Stefan Hinterwimmer (U Cologne) will talk together with Andreas Brocher on “An Experimental Investigation of the Binding Options of Demonstrative Pronouns” at 11 a.m.
Maribel Romero (BiasQ) will talk together with Andreas Walker at the main session on “Counterfactual Donkeys: A Strict Conditional Analysis” at 4:10 p.m.
At the Postersession on Wednesday (5:30-7:30), Michael Franke and Anthea Schöller (ProComPrag) will present a poster on “/few/ and /many/: A data-driven computational model to test a simple semantic idea”. Andreea Nicolae and Uli Sauerland (SSI) will present a poster on “Disambiguation and Priming: The Effect of Equivalence”.
On Thursday September 10th, there will be a special half-day session celebrating 20 years of ‘Sinn und Bedeutung’, and to honour Arnim von Stechow and his contribution to the field of semantics, entitled “Semantic Theory Evolves Continuously”.
Sigrid Beck (ObTrEx) is invited speaker. She will give her talk at 2:15 p.m. Uli Sauerland (SSI) will present a poster on “Stechowian Decomposition at the Speech Act Level”
On Friday September 11th, Nadine Bade and Sonja Tiemann (ObTrEx) will talk on “Obligatory triggers under negation” at 4:30 p.m.
XPrag.de associate Stephanie Solt (ZAS) will present a poster on “The subjectivity of gradable adjectives and the absolute/relative distinction”.
On Saturday September 12th, at 12:20 p.m. Uli Sauerland will close the conference as invited speaker.