LINGUIST List 4.487

Sat 19 Jun 1993

Confs: Logic and Linguistics

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Attached is the program for the ASL/LSA Conference on Logic
and Linguistics, which is to be held this summer in Columbus, Ohio, in
conjunction with the 1993 LSA Linguistic Institute. At the end of
the program, you will find information concerning the location
of the meeting, and details concerning accommodations and registration.
We would like to encourage participants to register in advance of the
meeting.

Yours, Dick Oehrle (for the Program Committee)

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 ASL/LSA

 CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND LINGUISTICS

 to be held at
 The Ohio State University
 Columbus, Ohio
 July 31-August 1, 1993
 in conjunction with the
 1993 LSA Linguistic Institute

 sponsored by
 The Association for Symbolic Logic
 and
 The Linguistic Society of America


Saturday, 31 July:

9:00 - 10:00 INVITED TALK. G. Morrill (Barcelona), "Discontinuity and
 pied piping in categorial grammar"
10:00 - 10:30 F. Moltmann (Amsterdam), "Exception sentences"

break

10:45 -11:15 A. Shimojima (Indiana), "Definite descriptions revisited by
 situations"
11:15 - 11:45 F. B. Baldwin (Penn), "Individuation and entities in discourse"
11:45 - 12:15 W. Saurer (Saarbruecken), "A note on anaphora and inference"

lunch

1:45 - 2:15 H. Hoekstra (Utrecht), "Subsectional anaphora in DRT"
2:15 - 2:45 S. Glasbey (Edinburgh), "A formal analysis of `the X' and
 `the same X' in discourse"
2:45 - 3:15 D. Hardt (Penn), "A uniform theory of anaphoric interpretation"

break

3:30 - 4:00 K. Yabushita (Texas), "Exhaustiveness as an operation
 on information states"
4:00 - 4:30 R. Cooper & J. Ginzburg (Edinburgh), "Enriched answerhood, goals
 and mental state dynamics"
4:30 - 5:30 INVITED TALK. E. Keenan & E. Stabler (UCLA), "Syntactically
 identifiable sets"


Sunday, 1 August:

9:00 - 9:30 M. Fried (Berkeley), "Event-based system of thematic roles"
9:30 - 10:00 K. Fukushima (Michigan State), "Numeral classifier doubling: a
 stumbling black for an LF-account of quantifier scope"
10:00 - 10:30 K. Russell (USC), "Some implications of the
 representation/description distinction for phonology"

break

10:45 - 11:15 B. Carpenter (CMU), "An Attribute-Value Logic for Set
 Descriptions"
11:15 - 12:15 INVITED TALK. J. Hodas & D. Miller (Penn), "Applications of
 linear logic and higher-order quantification
 to computational linguistics"

lunch

1:45 - 2:15 S. Lappin (IBM), "E-type pronouns as functions to i-sums"
2:15 - 2:45 A. Ojeda (UC Davis), "The semantics of the Italian double plural"
2:45 - 3:15 M. White (Penn), "Aspectual composition and the accidental
 referential homogeneity problem"

break

3:30 - 4:00 T. Fernando (Amsterdam), "Two extensions of dynamic logic"
4:00 - 4:30 R. Blutner (Humboldt University), "Nonmonotonic logic, dynamic
 semantics, and adverbs of generic quantification"
4:30 - 5:00 S. Shapiro (Ohio State), "Logical consequence: models and modality"

 Location: University Hall 14, Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio.

 Dormitory Accommodations On-Campus: Housing in student dormitory
rooms is available at the rates of $25/night (single room) and
$14.75/person/night (double room). For further information and
reservations, contact: Douglas M. Koyle (Coordinator of Conference &
Orientation Housing), Student Housing, Royer Common, Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH 43210 (telephone: 614-292-9725).

 Hotel Accommodations: A block of rooms has been reserved for
conference participants at the OSU-Area Holiday Inn, 328 W. Lane Av, a
10-15 minute walk from the conference site. This block will be
guaranteed through July 12 (but rooms may still be available
subsequently) at a conference rate of $57/night flat rate (i.e. for 1
to 4 persons/room). To make reservations, call 614-294-4848 or
800-HOLIDAY and mention the "ASL/LSA conference" (code: "ASL").

 Registration Information: Advanced registration is encouraged.
The registration fee for students is $15. The non-student
registration fee is $35 (if received by July 15) or $40 (at the
conference site). To register in advance of the conference, make out a
check for the appropriate amount to "Ohio State University Dept. of
Linguistics", write on the "memo" line "ASL/LSA Conference
registration", and mail the check, along with your name, address, and
affiliation to:

 David Dowty
 Department of Linguistics
 Oxley Hall 222
 Ohio State University
 Columbus, OH 43210