Here is the detailed program of the colloquium "Syntax and semantics in Paris":

Thursday, November 23, 2017

9:15-9:50 Registration & coffee

9:50-10:10 Welcome

10:10-11:10 Regine Eckardt
Verb-end questions in German: How particles and syntax conspire to create meaning

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:20 Nadine Theiler
The Precondition Particle: A Unified Analysis of German 'denn'

12:20-13:00 Andrea Beltrama and Emily Hanink
"Like", hedging and mirativity. A unified account.

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:40 Anne Abeille and Shrita Hassamal
Sluicing in Mauritian: a fragment analysis

15:40-16:20 Giorgia Zorzi
Head-final languages gapping forward: right-branching coordination across modalities

16:20-16:50 Coffee

16:50-17:30 Felicitas Enders
The German discourse particle "doch" in imperatives

17:30-18:10 Micky Daniels and Yael Greenberg
Extreme Adjectives in Comparative Structures and Even

18:30 Cocktail

Friday, November 24, 2017

9:30-10:30 Stephen Wechsler
The gavagai solution: how input correlations explain verb alternations

10:30-11:10 Jong-Bok Kim
Language variations in answers to polar questions: A Non-configurational Approach

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:20 Jack Hoeksema
Polarity items in Purpose Clauses

12:20-13:00 Yanwei Jin and Jean-Pierre Koenig
A Cross-linguistic Study of Expletive Negation

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:40 Emanuel Souza de Quadros
The semantics of possessive noun phrases and temporal modifiers

15:40-16:20 Fabienne Martin and Zsofia Gyarmathy
A finer-grained typology of perfective operators

16:20-16:50 Coffee

16:50-17:30 Bert Le Bruyn and Kirsten Schutter
HAVE-verbs, indefinite article omission and definiteness in SLA

17:30-18:10 Alexandre Cremers, Morwenna Hoeks, Grzegorz Lisowski and Jonathan Pesetsky
Experimental Evidence for a Semantic Account of Free Choice

Saturday, November 25, 2017

09:30-10:30 Marco Baroni
Solving new problems compositionally with neural networks

10:30-11:10 Grégoire Winterstein, Regine Lai, Zoe Luk and Eric Mccready
Authority and Gendered Speech: Cantonese Particles and Sajiao

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:20 Joseph Deveaugh-Geiss and Emilie Destruel
(Non-)Exhaustivity in French c’est-Clefts

12:20-13:00 Aixiu An and Anne Abeillé
Agreement and interpretation of binominals in French

13:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:40 Laia Mayol and Elena Castroviejo
Premise conditionals are thematic hypothetical conditionals

15:40-16:20 Vítor Míguez
Epistemic Modality and Semantic Change: The Story of Galician Adverb seguramente

16:20 Closing