Centre for the Research & Enterprise in Language (CREL)

University of Greenwich 

24th October 2019: The Individual/stage level contrast

Hamilton House

15 Park Vista, London SE10 9LZ 

Attendance is free of charge but please register for catering purposes at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/persistent-issues-in-language-analysis-discussion-series-tickets-66314176487

9:00-9:15Registration                                                             

9:15-9:30Welcome

9:30-10:20Professor Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University

How generic are I-Level predicates? Remarks on Magri’s 2009 proposal

10:20-11:00Professor Giorgio Magri, French National Centre for Scientific Research

Commentary

11:00-11:30Coffee break

11:30-12:20Dr María J. Arche, University of Greenwich and Professor Timothy Stowell, University of California Los Angeles

Dispositional adjectives: characterizing and episodic predication

12:20-13:00Dr Víctor Acedo-Matellán, University of Oxford

Commentary

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:50Dr Matthew Husband, University of Oxford

Decomposing States

14:50-15:30Dr Vera Hohaus, University of Manchester

Commentary

15:30-16:20Professor Molly Diesing, Cornell University

Stage and Individual Level Predicates at the Syntax and Semantics Interface

16:20-17.00Professor Louise Mc Nally, University Pompeu Fabra

Commentary 

17:00-17:15Coffee Break

17:15-18:00Open Discussion

Where in the grammar does the IL/SL distinction reside?

19:00

Dinner