Workshop on Negation

18-19 de desembre de 2014

9:00-9:15 h	Opening word by the organisers
9:15-10:15 h	Marie Labelle The fine print of the Jespersen cycle applied to French
10:15-11:15 h	Ana Maria Martins A feature-based typology of polarity items
11:15-11:45 h	Coffee break
11:45-12:45 h	Montserrat Batllori A featural approach to the diachronic evolution of Catalan minimizers
12:45-13:45 h	Pierre Larrivée Pathways of evolution of n-words: functions, features and bridging contexts
13:45-15:30 h	Lunch
15:30 -16:30 h	Richard Ingham Surface change and structural change in the syntax of negation
16:30-17:00 h	Coffee break
17:00-18:00 h	Pilar Prieto Intonational and gestural meaning contributions to the interpretation of denial
18:00-19:00 h	Ira Noveck Investigating not experimentally: Eliminating the negative and accentuating the positive

9:00-10:00 h	Giuseppe Longobardi Parametric minimalism and Romance negation
10:00-11:00 h	Anastasia Giannakidou Focus and negation in Greek NPIs: scalar and non-scalar negations
11:00-11:30 h	Coffee break
11:30-12:30 h	Hedde Zeijlstra Types of negative dependences
12:30-13:30 h	M. Teresa Espinal Building the meaning of n-words in Romance languages
13:30-15:15 h	Lunch
15:15 -16:15 h	Viviane Déprez Interpreting French and English Negative dependencies: an experimental approach
16:15-17:15 h	Susagna Tubau Experimentally investigating Double Negation in Catalan
17:15-17:45 h	Coffee break
17:45-18:45 h	Larry Horn Neg-raising, NPIs, and the semantics-pragmatics interface: What’s at issue?
18:45-19:00 h	Closing of the workshop