Date: 08-Mar-2010
From: Jurgis Skilters <Jurgis.Skilters lu.lv>
Subject: Symposium on Formal Semantics and Cognition
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Symposium on Formal Semantics and Cognition
Date: 23-Apr-2010 - 25-Apr-2010
Location: Riga, Latvia
Contact: Jurgis Skilters
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://cognition.lu.lv/symp/6-call.html
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics
Meeting Description:
6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication.
'Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models',
April 23-25, 2010 in Riga, Latvia
University of Latvia, Raina boulevard 19
The aim of the conference 'Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models' is to stimulate exchange among linguists and philosophers about issues in formal semantics and pragmatics and how they bear on foundational issues in linguistic theory, the philosophy of language and cognition.
Invited Symposium Organizers:
Barbara H. Partee (Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA), Michael Glanzberg (Philosophy, University of California at Davis, USA)
Invited Speakers:
Paul Dekker (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, NL), Kai von Fintel (Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Nirit Kadmon, (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, IS) Manfred Krifka (Linguistics, Humboldt University, D), Fred Landman (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, IS) , Jeff Pelletier (Philosophy and Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, CAN), Jaroslav Peregrin (Philosophy and Linguistics, Charles University/Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Science, CZ), Christopher Potts (Linguistics, Stanford University, USA), Craige Roberts, (Linguistics and Philosophy, Ohio State University, USA), Maribel Romero (Linguistics, University of Konstanz, D), Susan Rothstein (Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, IS), Philippe Schlenker (Cognitive Studies, Institute Jean-Nicod, F/Linguistics, New York University, USA), Martin Stokhof (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, NL), Anna Szabolcsi (Linguistics, New York University, USA), Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Philosophy, Yale University, USA), Dag Westerstahl (Philosophy, University of Goeteborg, SE), Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Institute for Cognitive Linguistics, University of Frankfurt, D)
Program Committee:
Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Michael Glanzberg (University of California at Davis, USA)
Jurgis Skilters (University of Latvia, LV)
Robert J. Stainton (University of Western Ontario, CAN)
Registration is open:
http://www.lu.lv/eng/research/conferences/2010/symp/
The tuition fee (including all conference materials, lunches and coffee breaks during the conference) 55 Lats have to be paid upon arrival.
Program:
Friday, April 23
9:15-10:00
Registration (Aula Magna)
10:00-10:30
Opening (Aula Magna)
10:30-11:30
Public Opening Keynote Lecture
Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA), Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Origins, Issues, Impact
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch
Parallel Sessions:
12:30 -14:30
Room 1
Chair: Christopher Potts (Stanford University, USA)
Jeroen Groenendijk (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Floris Roelofsen (Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA), Radical Inquisitive Semantics
Kristina Liefke (Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science,Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Single-Type Semantics
Matthias Gerner (Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong), Compositionality Proofs for Attitudinal Speech Acts
Room 4
Chair: Linda Apse (CCSS, University of Latvia)
Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Conditionals as Illocutionary Operators
Gunnar Björnsson, Alexander Almér (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments
Anna Chernilovskaya (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Exclamatives Have a Question Semantics!
14:30-14:45
Coffee Break
14:45-16:45
Room 1
Chair: Thomas Ede Zimmermann (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
Marta Abrusan (University of Oxford, UK), Triggering Verbal Presuppositions
Elizaveta Bylinina (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), ‘Gradable Individuals’ and the Complexity of Scale Structure
Olga Kagan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), A Scalar Approach to Slavic Verbal Prefixes
Room 4
Chair: Ken Turner (University of Brighton, UK)
Itamar Francez (University of Chicago, USA), Implicit Content and Chimeric Conditionals
Nicholas Allott (Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at University of Oslo, Norway), Hiroyuki Uchida (Human level intelligence laboratory at Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Natural Language Indicative Conditionals Are Classical
Dan Zeman (LOGOS - Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), Relativism and Binding: The Variadic Functions Approach
16:45-17:15
Coffee Break
17:15 -19:15
Room 1
Chair: Anna Szabolcsi (New York University, USA)
Michael Hegarty (Louisiana State University, USA), Attitudes, Anaphora and Neg-Raising in Modalized Dynamic Semantics
Mailin Antomo (Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,
Germany), Anaphoric Adverbials
Room 4
Chair: Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
Wiebke Petersen und Tanja Osswald (University of Düsseldorf, Germany), A Formal Interpretation of Frame Composition
Misha Knyazev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia), Whether That-clauses can Denote Events
Lucas Champollion (University of Pennsylvania and at the Palo Alto Research Center, USA), Quantification in Event Semantics
Saturday, April 24
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
Plenary Sessions:
Chair: Michael Glanzberg (University of California at Davis, USA)
9:00-10:00
Philippe Schlenker (Institute Jean-Nicod, France/ Linguistics, New York University, USA), The Semantics of Pronouns: Insights from Sign Language
10:00 – 11:00
Martin Stokhof (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Abstractions and Idealisations: The Construction of Modern Linguistics
11:00 -12:00
Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Institute for Cognitive Linguistics, University of Frankfurt, Germany), Remarks on Propositionalism
12:00-13:00
Lunch
Chair: Ken Turner (University of Brighton, UK)
13:00-14:00
Christopher Potts (Linguistics, Stanford University, USA) (Joint work with Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Scott Grimm, and Christopher Manning), Uncertainty in Indirect Answers
14:00-15:00
Dag Westerståhl (Philosophy, University of Göteborg, Sweden), Compositionality and Context Dependence
15:00-16:00
Anna Szabolcsi (New York University, USA), Certain Verbs Are Syntactically Explicit Quantifiers
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
Chair: Martin Stokhof (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
15:30-16:30
Nirit Kadmon and Aldo Sevi (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, Israel), Without 'Focus'
16:30 – 17:30
Jeff Pelletier (Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada), Some More Thoughts on the Semantics and Ontology of Mass and Count Nouns
19:30
Conference dinner
Sunday, April 25
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
Plenary Sessions:
Chair: Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
9:00 – 10:00
Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) & Anthony S. Gillies (Rutgers University, USA), Conditionals in Discourse
10:00-11:00
Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz, Germany), On Modal Superlatives
11:00 – 12:00
Paul Dekker (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, Universiteit van Amsterdam) Jigsaw Semantics, or: Dynamic Semantics Put Together Again.
12:00-13:00
Lunch
Chair: Jeff Pelletier (Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada)
13:00 – 14:00
Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University/Leiden University), Counting, Measuring and the Semantics of Classifiers
14:00 – 15:00
Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic), Past & Future of Meaning
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break
Chair: Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
15:30 – 16:30
Fred Landman (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, Israel), An Almost (but not quite) Naļve Theory of Comparatives.
Conference Closing Keynote:
16:30 – 17:30
Michael Glanzberg (University of California at Davis, USA), How much of Argument Structure is Determined by Meaning? Philosophy of Language Meets the Syntax-lexical Semantics Interface.
Further information:
jurgis.skilterslu.lv or jurgisskiltersgmail.com
Official websites of the symposium:
http://cognition.lu.lv/symp/6-call.html
http://www.lu.lv/eng/news/t/1053/
Dr. Jurgis Skilters, Assist. Prof.
Chair: Department of Theoretical Philosophy and Logic
Director: Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics
University of Latvia
Editor-in-Chief:
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Phone: 00 371 29276772
eMail: Jurgis.Skilterslu.lv and jurgisskiltersgmail.com
http://cognition.lu.lv/skil.html
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