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Confs: Semantics of time and space; Balkan & Slavic Syntax

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1. , SEMANTICS OF TIME, SPACE, AND MOVEMENT AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING
2. , Balkan and Slavic Syntax

4th European Workshop

SEMANTICS OF TIME, SPACE, AND MOVEMENT AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING

		Chateau de Bonas, 4-8 September 1992
organized by the "Groupe Langue, Raisonnement, Calcul"
(IRIT, ERSS, ARAMIIHS)

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Friday, September 4 th
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8.45 - 9.00 Opening of the Workshop, A. Borillo, M. Borillo

9.00 - 9.50 M Caenepeel, G. Sandstroem (Centre for Cognitive Science,
Edinburgh and University of Umea)
A discourse-level approach to the past perfect.

9.50 - 10.40 A. Lascarides (Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh)
The semantics and pragmatics of pluperfect

11.00 - 11.50 M. Morreau (Institut fur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung,
Universitat Stuttgart)
Causation

11.50 - 12.40 C. Vet (Instituut voor Romaanse Talen, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen)
Linguistic information and world knowledge in temporal reasoning

14.30 - 15.20 D. Randell, A. Cohn (Computer Studies, University of Leeds)
Logical and computational aspects of spatial reasoning

15.20 - 16.10 L. Farinas del Cerro, P. Balbiani (IRIT, Universite Paul
Sabatier, Toulouse)
A tableaux-based engine for geometrical reasoning
16.30 - 17.20 C. Schlieder (Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet
Freiburg)
Modelling incomplete descriptions of spatial relations

17.20 - 18.10 M. Aurnague (ERSS, Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail)
A unified processing of orientation for internal and external localization

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Saturday, September 5th
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9.00 - 9.50 J. Jayez (EHESS, Paris)
Motion shape in french motion verbs

9.50 - 10.40 P. Sablayrolles (IRIT, Toulouse and DFKI, Saarbrucken)
Spatio-temporal semantics in Natural Language : the case of motion

11.00 - 11.50 W. Hoeppner (FB Computerlinguistik, Universitaet Duisburg)
Generating route descriptions : representation of an urbane environment

11.50 - 11.20 A. Marti, M. Taule (Dept. Filologia, Universitat de
Barcelona)
Towards a semantic representation of movement verbs in the lexicon

11.20 - 12.50 F. Nef (Institut de Philosophie, Universite de Rennes I))
Y a-t-il des parties d'evenements ? A propos des verbes de mouvement

15.00 - 15.50 B. Gaume (IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Default temporal reasoning

15.50 - 16.20 G. Ligozat (LIMSI, Universite de Paris 11, Orsay)
Temporal constraints networks as algebra

16.40 - 17.10 A. Arrieta, J. M. Larrazabal (Logika eta zientziaren
filosofirako saila, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia - San
Sebastian)
Sur le traitement du temps dans une theorie formelle de l'action : aspects
logiques

17.10 - 18.00 P. Blackburn (Dept of philosophy, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht)
Sorted modal languages and temporal knowledge representation

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Monday, September 7 th
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 9.00 - 9.50 I. White (Machine Intelligence Ltd, Cambridge)
Seeing and hearing events

9.50 - 10.40 C. Freksa (Fachbereich Informatik, Universitaet Hamburg)
Perception-oriented spatial reasoning

11.00 - 11.50 J. Schirra (Fachbereich Informatik, Universitat der
Saarlandes)
Connecting visual and verbal space

11.50 - 12.40 G. Herzog (Fachbereich Informatik, Universitaet der
Saarlandes)
Utilizing interval-based event representation for incremental high-level
scene analysis

14.30 - 15.20 C. Smith (Center for Cognitive Science, The University of
Texas at Austin)
Another look at the English temporal system

15.20 - 16.10 H. Kamp (Institut fur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung,
Stuttgart Universitaet)

16.30 - 17.20 F. van Eynde (Centre for the Study of Language and
Computation, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)
Trade-off between inference and representation in the processing of
temporal information in NL texts

17.20 - 17.50 L. Romary, B. Gaiffe (CRIN, Universite de Nancy)
Role du temps dans une theorie de la reference

17.50 - 18.40 A. ter Meulen (Linguistics Department, Indiana University at
Bloomington)
1) The interaction of temporal and nominal anaphora
		or
2) How to conserve information in a dynamic system

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Tuesday, September 8 th
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9.00 - 9.50 H. Verkuyl (Research Institute for Language and Speech,
Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht)
Tense and actualization

9.50 - 10.40 K. Eberle (Institut fur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung,
Stuttgart Universitaet)
Computing the aspects of event descriptions in NL-texts using DRT

11.00 - 11.30 D. Maurel (LIANA, Universite de Nantes)
Preanalysis of french adverbials of date

11.30 - 12.20 H. de Swart (Instituut voor Romaanse Talen, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen)
On the role of focus in temporal structure

14.00 - 14.50 C. Schwarze (F.G. Sprachwissenschaft, Universitat Konstanz)
Temps, espace et ordre dans le discours

14.50 - 15.20 P. Charlon (LIANA, Universite de Nantes)
Aspects spatio-temporels du verbe "cuire" (to cook)

15.20 - 15.50 C. Inchaurralde (Dpto de Filologia Inglesa y Alemana,
Universidad de Zaragoza)
Verbs for the expression of temporal, kinetic and grouping situations in NL
: a tentative classification

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Action Concertee "Sciences de la Cognition" (MRT-MEN)
Pole REcherches
Sciences COgnitives Toulouse
PRESCOT________________________________________________________________

Dear Colleague,
What follows is the preliminary schedule for the workshop on
Balkan and Slavic Syntax.

We would like to thank all those who have shown interest in the
event and we hope to see you there.

Arhonto Terzi & Erato Kostopoulou

 WORKSHOP ON BALKAN AND SLAVIC SYNTAX
 Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa

 October 15, 1992

 Simard Hall, Room 135
 165 Nicholas Street

9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Tina Kraskow, University of Pennsylvania.
 'Multiple Wh-movement in Slavic'

9:30 -10:00 Olga Tomic, University of Novi Sad.
 'Balkan and Slavic Clitics'

10:00 -10:30 Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan.
 'Czech Clitics'

10:30 -11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 -11:30 Ljiljana Progovac and Helen Goodluck, Wayne
 State University and University of Ottawa.
 'Serbo-Croatian Subjunctive-like Complements'

11:30 -12:00 Virginia Motapanyane, University of New Brunswick.
 'A Typology of Subjunctive Complementizers'

12:00 -12:30 p.m. Giuliana Giusti, University of Venice.
 'The Position of the Demonstrative in the Romanian
 Noun Phrases'

 Lunch

2:00 p.m. -2:30 p.m. Maria Teresa Guasti, University of Geneva.
 'The Syntax of Causative and Perception Verbs
 in Arberesh from a Cross-linguistic Perspective'

2:30 -3:00 Brian Joseph, Ohio State University.
 'Deictic Verbs and the Pro-Drop Parameter in Greek'

3:00 -3:30 Ianthi Maria Tsimpli & Anna Roussou, University
 College, London.
 'On Negation in Modern Greek'

3:30 -4:00 Coffee Break

4:00 -4:30 Yoryia Agouraki, University College, London.
 'Spec-Head Licencing. The Cases of Clitic
 Construction and Focalization'

4:30 -5:00 Hara Efthimiou & Norbert Hornstein, University
 of Maryland.
 'Verb Movement in Modern Greek'