Schedule

The thirteenth annual meeting of California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) will take place at the Bruin Viewpoint Room in the Ackerman Union at UCLA on May 6, 2022.

Each presentation will consist of a 20 minute talk, along with a 10 minute period for questions.

Session	Time	Presentation
1	8:45am	Modeling the context dependence of artifact nouns Brandon Waldon, Cleo Condoravdi, Beth Levin & Judith Degen (Stanford)
	9:15am	On precisifiers Yasha Sapir & Adam Woodnutt (USC)
	9:45am	There is no MEAS, only MUCH: the case of 3kg of NP Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez (USC)
	10:15am	Occasional-type frequency adjectives: pluractionality and stages Charlotte Sant & Gillian Ramchand (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
	10:45am	coffee break
2	11am	Intended scope interpretation impacts intensity and f0 in naturalistic speech Noa Attali, Lisa Pearl & Gregory Scontras (UC Irvine)
	11:30am	Dou and scope effects in Mandarin relative clauses Huilei Wang (UCLA)
	12pm	Bayesian Modeling of Quantifier Reference Variability – The Case of Few, Several, and Many Skyler Jove Reese (UC Davis)
	12:30pm	lunch break
3	1:30pm	Rhetorical questions two ways in Sm’algyax Colin Brown (UCLA)
	2pm	A semantic proposal for the clause-type marker in Korean echo questions Seoyeon Jang (UCSD)
	2:30pm	The Function of Accented Pronouns Milad Mayel (USCD)
	3pm	Disagreeing About “Might” Patrick Skeels (UC Davis)
	3:30pm	coffee break
4	3:45pm	A low relative future marker in Atchan Rebecca Jarvis (UC Berkeley)
	4:15pm	Deixis & Restrictive Modification Eli Sharf (UC Santa Cruz)
	4:45pm	Deriving “restrictive” interpretations for clarificatory nominal appositives John Duff (UC Santa Cruz)
	5:15pm	Discourse and Projection Properties of Nonrestrictive Adjectives Kalen Chang (UCLA)
	6:30pm	Dinner at Barney’s Beanery (at your own expense)