CUSP 12 - USC
Basic Facts
The twelfth annual meeting of California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics will take place on November 9-10 2019 at the University of Southern California.
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If you plan to attend CUSP 12, whether as a presenter or as an audience member, please RSVP here at your earliest convenience.
Program
Saturday, November 9
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee and brief welcome |
| Session 1 | Chair: Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee |
|---|---|
| 11:00–11:30 | Junhyo Lee (USC) and Anthony Nguyen (USC): Generics in proportion |
| 11:30–12:00 | Jaime Castillo-Gamboa (USC): Don't call me a predicativist |
| 12:00–12:30 | Gabriel Teixeira (UCLA): Strong vs Weak counterfactuality of the consequent |
| 12:30–2:00 | LUNCH (On your own; USC Village is convenient) |
| Session 2 | Chair: Luis Miguel Toquero Perez |
| 2:00–2:30 | Christian de Leon (UCLA): Situating rich demonstrations in conversation |
| 2:30–3:00 | Joshua Wampler (UCSD): We also do dogs: Main verb do and event construal |
| 3:00–3:30 | BREAK |
| Session 3 | Chair: Madhumanti Datta |
| 3:30–4:00 | Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (USC): M-zi 'not know' in Cantonese as an epistemic marker |
| 4:00–4:30 | Tyler Lemon (Berkeley): Subcomparatives in Vietnamese and the grammar of degrees |
| 4:30–5:00 | Colin Brown (UCLA): Interrogatives at the interface: Sentential mood marking in Sm'algyax |
| 6:00–8:00 | CATERED DINNER (Location: GFS 330) |
Sunday, November 10
| 9:00–9:30 | BREAKFAST |
| Session 4 | Chair: Sarah Hye-yeon Lee |
|---|---|
| 9:30–10:00 | Lisa Hofmann (UCSC): The anaphoric potential of indefinites under negation and disjunction |
| 10:00–10:30 | Madeleine Booth (UCLA): The pragmatics of explicit passive sentences |
| 10:30–11:00 | Jack Duff (UCSC): To flip a judge: Predicates of personal taste in a commitment-based discourse model |
| 11:00–11:30 | BREAK |
| Session 5 | Chair: Haley Wei Wei |
| 11:30–12:00 | Mathias Boehm (Berkeley): Reference, discourse, and plentitude |
| 12:00–12:30 | Sven Neth (Berkeley): Conditionals and closure |
Conference Location
The conference will take place in Harris Hall, room 101.
To locate Harris Hall, type HAR into the search box here.
Room 101, a.k.a. the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, is to your immediate left as you enter the South entrance of Harris Hall (the entrance facing Exposition Boulevard, near the Expo Park/USC metro stop). That entrance looks like this:
Getting to Campus
If you plan on driving to campus, details about public parking can be found here.
It's very easy to get to USC on public transit. Simply find your way to the Expo line and get off at the Expo Park/USC stop.