LINGUIST List 10.1739

Tue Nov 16 1999

Confs: Optimization of Interpretation

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1. Fabien Reniers, Optimization of Interpretation

Utrecht (The Netherlands)
4-5 January 2000
Optimization of Interpretation
PROGRAM

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PROGRAM of the Conference on Optimization of Interpretation:

Location: UiL OTS, Utrecht University
Date: 4-5 January, 2000

Tuesday, January 4, 2000

09.15 AM Opening remarks

09.30 AM - 10.30 AM Invited speaker: Reinhard Blutner
 (Berlin)

10.30 AM - 11.00 AM coffee break

11.00 AM - 11.40 AM Bart Geurts (Nijmegen)
 Buoyancy

11.40 AM - 00.20 PM Benjamin Lyngfelt (G=94teborg)
 OT Semantics and Control

00.20 PM - 01.30 PM lunch break

01.30 PM - 02.10 PM Arto Anttila (Boston)
 The Partitive Constraint in OT:
 Evidence from Finnish

02.10 PM - 02.50 PM Alice ter Meulen (Groningen)
 Optimizing self-reference in Dutch

02.50 PM - 03.30 PM Eva Haji=FEov=A0 (Prague)
 A Topic/Focus Based Glance at
 Optimality Theory

03.30 PM - 04.00 PM tea break

04.00 PM - 05.00 PM Invited speaker: Gisbert Fanselow
 (Potsdam)



Wednesday, January 5, 2000


09.15 AM - 10.15 AM Invited speaker: Barbara Partee
 (Amherst)

10.15 AM - 10.55 AM Paul Dekker and Robert van Rooy
 (Amsterdam)
 Optimality Theory and Game Theory:
 Some Parallels
 =20
10.55 AM - 11.25 AM coffee break

11.25 AM - 00.05 PM Sarah Kennelly (Utrecht)
 Specificity, Multiplication, and
 Coercion

00.05 PM - 00.45 PM Fabian Heck (Stuttgart)
 Quantifier Scope in German and Cyclic
 Optimisation


00.45 PM - 01.25 PM Irene Kr=84mer (MPI, Nijmegen)
 Disregard of a contextual constraint:
 Children's interpretation of
 indefinites

01.25 PM - 02.30 PM lunch break

02.30 PM - 03.30 PM Invited speaker: Paul Smolensky
 (Johns Hopkins)

03.30 PM - 05.00 PM Forum discussion
 Chair: Henri=89tte de Swart (Utrecht)
 Participants: Renate Bartsch (Amsterdam)
 Ken Drozd (Groningen)
 Wietske Vonk (MPI, Nijmegen)
 Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam)