| Wednesday, 04.03.2009 | |||
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Invited talk: Louise McNally | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona | Classification strategies and the semantics of gradable adjectives (slides) |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Carla Umbach & Cornelia Ebert | Universität Osnabrück | German demonstrative 'so' –
intensifying and hedging effects
(slides) |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Valentina Papa | University of Florence | Why there is only one 'quanto' in Italian |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | coffee break | ||
| 16.30 – 17.30 | Invited talk: Manfred Bierwisch | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Negative Degrees and other Puzzles of Gradation
(handout) |
| 17.30 – 18.00 | Regine Eckardt & Eberhard Winkler | Georg August-Universität Göttingen | Positive Deviation — The argument structure of adjectives
(handout) |
| Thursday, 05.03.2009 | |||
| 09.00 – 10.00 | Invited talk: Ulrike Hahn | School of Psycholgy, Cardiff University | What makes things similar? |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Frank Domahs | Neurolinguistik,
RWTH Aachen | The comparison of quantities – A review on findings from cognitive psychology (slides) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Ariel Cohen | Ben-Gurion University | Comparison and Inference
(slides) |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | coffee break | ||
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Robert van Rooij | University of Amsterdam | Adjectives, Comparison, and Measurement |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Peter Alrenga | University of Chicago | Dimensions in the Semantics of Comparatives: Similarity, Scalarity, and Identity (handout) |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Discussion | ||
| Friday, 06.03.2009 | |||
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Pascal Amsili & Marianne Desmets | Université Paris Diderot & Université Paris X Nanterre | Parenthetical Scalar Comparatives
(slides) |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Invited talk: Peter Bosch | University of Osnabrück | The Inscrutability of Similarity |