Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics First International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Michigan State University, July, 11-13, 2003
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Klaus von Heusinger Institut für Linguistik/Germanistik (ILG) Universität Stuttgart Postfach 10 60 37 D-70049 Stuttgart Germany |
Jaroslav Peregrin Department of Logic Academy of Sciences Jilská 1 CZ-110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic |
Ken Turner School of Languages University of Brighton Falmer Brighton East Sussex BN1 9PH Great Britain |
vonHeusinger@ilg.uni-stuttgart.de | peregrin@ff.cuni.cz | K.P.Turner@bton.ac.uk |
[Invited Speakers] [Description] [Programme] [Local Information]
The purpose of this workshop is to attract very high quality recent work on the interdigitation of semantic and pragmatic theories. This topic has become a centre of intense interest in the last year or so and a book series called Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (CRiSPI) of which the three organizers of this workshop are editors or editorial advisors, may have played some role in promoting this interest. The workshop is interested in attracting papers on the currently fashionable topics of, among others, presupposition, anaphora resolution, quantification, propositional attitude attribution and modality, as well as other less recently fashionable topics such as conditionals. Logical, linguistic, psycholinguistic and computational approaches to these topics will be welcomed. We hope that each invited speaker will be able to have a one hour slot, and the other speakers will have 40 minutes (including discussion). Selected papers may be published as a CRiSPI volume provisionally titled 'Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics: The Michigan Papers' (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/series/crispi) |
Friday, 11 - July - 2003
14.00 | Registration (fee 25 US $) at B-106 Wells Hall | |
15.00-15.15
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Opening | |
15.15-16.15
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Larry Horn (Yale University) | The Border Wars: a neo-Gricean perspective |
16.15-16.20
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break | |
16.20-17.00
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Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University) | Most: Reversing some of the roles of semantics and pragmatics |
17.00-17.30
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break | |
17.30-18.10
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Lewis Bott & Ira Noveck (CNRS Bron) | The Time Course of Scalar Implicature |
18.10-18.50
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K.M. Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge) | Futurity in Default Semantics |
18.50-19.30
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Michael Hegarty (Louisiana State University) | Type Shifting of Entities in Discourse |
20.30
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meeting in a restaurant |
Saturday, 12 - July - 2003
9.00-10.00
Hans Kamp (Universität Stuttgart)
Focus Variables of Higher Type
10.00-10.20
break
10.20-11.00
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach (Ohio State University)
Superlative Quantifiers and the Dynamics of Context Dependence
11.00-11.40
Linton Wang & Eric McCready & Nicolas Asher (University of Texas)
Information Dependency in Quantificational Subordination
11.40-12.30
Ronnie Cann (University of Edinburgh)
Semantic Underspecifictaion and the Pragmatic Interpretation of Be
12.30-14.00
lunch
14.00-14.40
Aoife Ahern (U.N.E.D. Madrid)
Mood, Propositional Attitudes and Metarepresentation in Spanish M
14.40-15.20
Jeremy J. Goard (UC Davis)
Definiteness and English Prenominal Possessives
15.20-16.00
Chungmin Lee (Seoul National University)
How Alternative Question and Conjunctive Question Generate Contrastive Focus and Contrastive Topic, respectively
16.00-16.20
break
16.20-17.00
Luis Paris (State University of New York)
On the properties of a Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Pattern in the Expression of Manner
17.00-17.40
Ring Mei-Han Low (University at Buffalo)
The Hidden Path of Semantic Content within Pragmatic Context: The definite article, "the"
17.40-18.20
Markus Egg (Universität des Saarlandes)
Metonymy at the semantics-pragmatics interface
18.20-18.40
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18.40-19.40
Nicolas Asher (University of Texas)
Discourse Topics
20.30
meeting in a restaurant
Sunday, 13 - July - 2003
9.00-9.40 | Hotze Rullman & Aili You (University of Calgary) | General Number and the Semantics and Pragmatics of Indefinite Bare Nouns in Mandarin Chinese |
9.40-10.20 | Daniel Hole (Universität München) | Matching the Constituency of Quantification and Sentence Structure: Two Case Studies from Mandarin Chinese |
10.20-10.40 | break | |
10.40-11.20 | Mayumi Masuko (ICU Tokyo) | Referential Expressions and Syntax-Semantics(-Pragmatics) Interface |
11.20-12.00 | António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa) | Nominals are Doubly Dual |
12.00-12.20 | break | |
12.20-13.20 | William Ladusaw (UC Santa Cruz) | Framing the issue: the biasing effect of polarity items in questions |
13.20-13.30 | Closing word |
Accepted Papers
Richard Breheny (University of Cambridge)
On pragmatic intrusion into semantic content
Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University)
How to deny a presupposition
Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan University)
Tolerating exceptions with "descriptive" and "in virtue of" generics:
two types of modality and reduced vagueness
The Institute publishers book exhibit will be open every day except Sunday during the Institute, from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. On Friday and Saturday August 1 and 2 it will be open from 9 am to 4 pm. The book exhibit will be set up in C-103 Wells Hall. Erickson Hall where some events will be held is right next to Wells.
Short Term (Weekend) Housing Information |
http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/ |
LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003 (http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/)
last update: July, 28th, 2003