15 April 2012

UMass at the Modality Workshop in Ottawa

This Friday and Saturday, April 20-21, Ottawa University will sponsor a conference on Modality (Modality@OttawaU).

Angelika Kratzer, and former UMass faculty Lisa Matthewson, are invited speakers.

Angelika Kratzer's talk is entitled "Modals as building blocks for attitude ascriptions"

Lisa Mattewson's talk (co-authored with UMass alumnus Hotze Rullman) is entitled "Epistemic modality with a past temporal perspective."

Many UMass graduates are on the program:

Aynat Rubinstein, is presenting "Developing a methodology for modality-type annotations on a large scale," a paper co-authored with Dan Simonson, Joo Chung, Hillary Harner, Graham Katz and Paul Portner.

Ilaria Frana is presenting "Adnominal conditions and modal NPs"

Luis Alonso Ovalle and Junko Shimoyama are presenting "Modality in the nominal domain: exploring Japanese wh-ka indeterminates."

Luis Alonso Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito are presenting "Indifference and Modality: the case of Spanish 'uno cualquier' "

Aynat Rubinstein is presenting "Straddling the line between attitude verbs and necessity modals"

Ana Arregui is presenting "Variation in imperfectives," a paper co-authored with María Luisa Rivero and Andrés Salanova.