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1. Nicole Lubeck, ITK, PROGRAMME IDIOMS 2-3-4 SEPTEMBER 1992

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
IDIOMS CONFERENCE 2, 3, 4 SEPTEMBER 1992,
TILBURG UNIVERSITY, ROOM SZ 17
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2
 8.30 hrs. - 9.30 hrs. Registration at the entrance of building P
 9.30 hrs. - 9.35 hrs. Opening by Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg)
 9.35 hrs. - 10.35 hrs. Invited Speaker: Igor Mel'cuk (Montreal)
 A Calculus and a Typology of Non-Phrases
10.35 hrs. - 11.00 hrs. coffee
SESSION: ACTIVATION OF IDIOM MEANING
11.00 hrs. - 11.50 hrs. Patrizia Tabossi & Francesco Zardon (Bologna)
 The Activation of Idiom Meaning
11.50 hrs. - 12.40 hrs. Wendy Schweigert (Peoria, Illinois)
 The Muddy Waters of Idiom Comprehension Begin
 to Settle
12.40 hrs. - 13.40 hrs. lunch in rest. Tilbury 2
SESSION: USE OF IDIOMS
13.40 hrs. - 14.30 hrs. Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam)
 Idiomatic Blocking and the Elsewhere Condition
14.30 hrs. - 15.20 hrs. Elizabeth Holt & Paul Drew (Huddersfield & York)
 Idioms and the Organisation of Topic
 in Conversation
15.20 hrs. - 15.50 hrs. tea
SESSION: SYNTACTIC IDIOMS
15.50 hrs. - 16.40 hrs. Wlodek Zadrozny & Alexis Manastar-Ramer
 (Yorktown Heights, IBM Research)
 Open Idioms as Constructions
16.40 hrs. - 17.30 hrs. Anita Mittwoch (Jeruzalem)
 Syntactic Idioms?
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3
 9.30 hrs. - 10.30 hrs. Invited Speaker: Ray Jackendoff (Waltham, USA)
 The Boundaries of the Lexicon, or, if it
			 isn't Lexical. What is it?
10.30 hrs. - 11.00 hrs. coffee
SESSION: FORMAL MODELS
11.00 hrs. - 11.50 hrs. Frank van Gestel (Utrecht)
 `EN BLOC' Insertion
11.50 hrs. - 12.40 hrs. Gregor Erbach (Saarbr~Acken)
 Lexical Representation of Idioms and Support-Verb
 Constructions in HPSG
12.40 hrs. - 13.40 hrs. lunch in rest. Tilbury 2
SESSION: SYNTACTIC FLEXIBILITY
13.40 hrs. - 14.30 hrs. Benjamin Shaer (Montreal)
 Idioms and Reference
14.30 hrs. - 15.20 hrs. Andre Schenk (Utrecht)
 The Syntactic Behaviour of Idioms
15.20 hrs. - 15.50 hrs. tea
15.50 hrs. - 16.40 hrs. Tim Nicolas (Essex)
 Internal Modification of Idioms
16.40 hrs. - 17.30 hrs. Marlies van de Voort & Wietske Vonk (Nijmegen)
 You don't Die Immediately when You Kick an Empty
 Bucket: On the Semantic and Syntactic
 Characteristics of Idioms During
			 Processing
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4
09.30 hrs. - 10.30 hrs. Invited Speaker: Raymond Gibbs (Santa Cruz)
 What Idioms Reveal about How People Think
10.30 hrs. - 11.00 hrs. coffee
SESSION: METAPHORICAL PROPERTIES
11.00 hrs. - 11.50 hrs. Michael Forrester (Canterbury)
 Tropic Implicature and the Role of Context in
 Comprehending Idiomatic Expressions
11.50 hrs. - 12.40 hrs. Cristina Cacciari, Raffaella Ida Rumiati & Sam
 Glucksberg (Bologna & Princeton)
 The Role of Word Meanings, Semantics
 Transparency and Familiarity in the Mental Images
 of Idioms
12.40 hrs. - 13.40 hrs. lunch in Tilbury 2
13.40 hrs. - 14.30 hrs. Dirk Geeraerts (Leuven)
 Specialisation and Reinterpretation in Idioms
14.30 hrs. - 15.20 hrs. Lucia Tovena (Geneve)
 Polarity Sensitive Idioms in Translation
15.20 hrs. - 15.50 hrs. tea
15.50 hrs. - 16.50 hrs. Invited Speaker: Ivan Sag (Stanford)
 To be announced
16.50 hrs. - 17.30 hrs. Plenary discussion
17.30 hrs. Drinks
Further information can be obtained from:
Nicole Lubeck, email: lubeckkub.nl, tel. 013-663060, fax: 013-663110
Peggy Bertens, email: peggybkub.nl, tel. 013-663113, fax: 013-663110
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