Program

Thursday, September 20, 2018, room 6303
8.30-9.00 Registration and Coffee
9.00-10.00 Invited speaker:
Stephanie Solt (Leibniz-ZAS)
The Case for Semi-ordered Scales
10.00-10.35 Andres Soria Ruiz (Institut Jean Nicod) and Federico L.G. Faroldi (Ghent University) Scalar Evaluatives: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
10.35-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.35 Rick Nouwen (Universiteit Utrecht) Right Here, Right Now
11.35-12.10 Nattanun Chanchaochai (University of Pennsylvania) and Jérémy Zehr (University of Pennsylvania) Force and Order: Lessons from Thai Scalar Predicates
12.10-12.45 Christopher Pinon (Université Lille 3) Klein’s Approach In A Degree-Based Approach
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.35 Paul Egre (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod – ENS) and Steven Verheyen (KU Leuven) Between and Around
14.35-15.10 Rita Valadas (University of Lisbon) On Degree Identification Superlative Nps And Intrinsic Scales
15.10-15.45 Koji Kawahara (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) Scales in Extremeness
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-16.50 Lorenz Demey and Hans Smessaert (KU Leuven) Ordering Relations, Partitions And Aristotelian Diagrams
16.50-17.50 Invited speaker:
Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago)
Interpreting Gradable Adjectives in Context: Domain Distribution vs. Scalar Representation