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Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
13
The Linguistics department of the University of Toronto is pleased
to host the 13th edition of the
Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal
Semantics Workshop
Friday, 21 May 2021
TOM is a friendly and informal workshop on semantics and related fields. It is an ideal forum for graduate students to present and discuss their ongoing work via a talk (20 minutes + Q&A) or a poster. Faculty from the associated universities will also be present as invited speakers: this year we welcome Alan Bale from Concordia.
There is no fee. TOM 13 will take place online (see registration page for info)
SCHEDULE
09.20–9.30
09.30–10.00
10.00–10.30
10.30–11.00
11.00–11.15
11.15–12.15
12.15–12.30
12.30–14.30
14.30–14.45
14.45–15.15
15.15–15.45
15.45–16.15
16.15–16.30
16.30–17.30
Introductory remarks
Session 1
Alec Kienzle (U of T):
A reassessment of the semantics and pragmatics of English rise-fall-rise intonation
Angelika Kiss: (U of T): Epistemic stance in declarative questions
Jin Ji (McGill): Pair-list Interpretation of Specificational Pseudoclefts
Break
Lightning talks
Break
Lunch & Poster session
Gregory Antono (U of T):
Biased questions in Colloquial Singapore English: the case of "meh"
Sean Riley, Chester Leopold, Zach Savelson, and Raj Singh (Carleton):
Cognitive primitives and number learning
Lara Russo, Tae Bourque Smith, and Ashley Promislow (Carleton):
Determiner Quantifiers in English
Bruno Andreotti (U of T):
Lexical Semantics and Model Theory: Modelling Differences between Taxonomic Conventions
Irene Smith (McGill):
Neg-raising effects of the non-neg-raising predicate try
Garett Sherwood (Carleton):
Presupposition, Assertion, and Oddness: A Study of Contextual Semantic Violations
Samuel Jambrovic (U of T): The singular plurality of family reference
Deniz Askin, Iain Burge, Sabrina Burr, Katie Van Luven, Annabelle Sauve, and Raj Singh (Carleton and PaymentEvolution):
Using transformer neural networks to learn logical forms
Break
Session 2
Crystal Chen (U of T): A comparison of recent literature on demonstratives
Will Johnston (McGill): Nonspecific promises: The Intensional Restitution Effect
Masashi Harada (McGill): On the Plural Projection Analysis of Cumulativity
Break
Invited talk
Alan Bale (Concordia University):
Agree to disagree: Some notes on the semantics of syntactic agreement
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