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Tue Jun 24 2003

Confs: Semantics/Pragmatics/MI USA

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  • vonHeusinger, Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics

    Message 1: Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics

     Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:31:07 +0000
    From: vonHeusinger <vonHeusingerilg.uni-stuttgart.de>
    Subject: Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics


    Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics Short Title: SemPrag2003

    Date: 11-JUL-03 - 13-JUL-03 Location: Michigan, United States of America Contact: Ken Turner Contact Email: K.P.Turnerbton.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/SemPrag2003/

    Linguistic Sub-field: Semantics, Pragmatics, General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The purpose of this workshop is to attract very high quality recent work on the interdigitation of semantic and pragmatic theories. Program for

    WHERE SEMANTICS MEETS PRAGMATICS (First International Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface) Michigan State University, July, 11-13, 2003 http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/SemPrag2003/

    The workshop will take place during the SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003 of the LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/)

    Friday, 11 - July - 2003

    14.00 Registration (fee 25 US $) at B-106 Wells Hall

    15.00-15.15 Opening

    15.15-16.15 Larry Horn (Yale University) The Border Wars: a neo-Gricean perspective

    16.15-16.30 break

    16.30-17.10 Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University) Most: Reversing some of the roles of semantics and pragmatics

    17.10-17.50 Lewis Bott & Ira Noveck (CNRS Bron) The Time Course of Scalar Implicature

    17.50-18.10 break

    18.10-18.50 Michael Hegarty (Louisiana State University) Type Shifting of Entities in Discourse

    18.50-19.30 K.M. Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge) Futurity in Default Semantics

    20.00 party or dinner

    Saturday, 12 - July - 2003

    9.00-10.00 Hans Kamp (Universit�t Stuttgart) tba

    10.00-10.30 break

    10.30-11.10 Javier Guti�rrez-Rexach (Ohio State Univ) Superlative Quantifiers and the Dynamics of Context Dependence

    11.10-11.50 Linton Wang & Eric McCready & Nicolas Asher (University of Texas) Information Dependency in Quantificational Subordination

    11.50-12.30 Ronnie Cann (University of Edinburgh) Semantic Underspecifictaion and the Pragmatic Interpretation of Be

    12.30-14.00 lunch

    14.00-14.40 Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University) How to deny a presupposition

    14.40-15.20 Jeremy J. Goard (UC Davis) Definiteness and English Prenominal Possessives

    15.20-16.00 Chungmin Lee (Seoul National University) How Alternative Question and Conjunctive Question Generate Contrastive Focus and ContrastiveTopic, respectively

    16.00-16.20 break

    16.20-17.00 Luis Paris (State University of New York) On the properties of a Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Pattern in the Expression of Manner

    17.00-17.40 Ring Mei-Han Low (University at Buffalo) The Hidden Path of Semantic Content within Pragmatic Context: The definite article, ''the''

    17.40-18.20 Markus Egg (Universit�t des Saarlandes) Metonymy at the semantics-pragmatics interface

    18.20-18.40 break

    18.40-19.40 Nicolas Asher (University of Texas) Discourse Topics

    20.30 dinner or party

    Sunday, 13 - July - 2003

    9.00-9.40 Hotze Rullman & Aili You (University of Calgary) General Number and the Semantics and Pragmatics of Indefinite Bare Nouns in Mandarin Chinese

    9.40-10.20 Daniel Hole (University of Munich) Matching the Constituency of Quantification and Sentence Structure: Two Case Studies from Mandarin Chinese

    10.20-10.40 break

    10.40-11.20 Richard Brehen (University of Cambridge) On pragmatic intrusion into semantic content

    11.20-12.00 Mayumi Masuko (ICU Tokyo) Referential Expressions and Syntax-Semantics(-Pragmatics) Interface

    12.00-12.20 break

    12.20-13.20 William Ladusaw (UC Santa Cruz) Framing the issue: the biasing effect of polarity items in questions

    13.20-13.30 Closing word

    Alternates

    Ant�nio Branco (Universidade de Lisboa) Nominals are Doubly Dual

    Aoife Ahern (U.N.E.D. Madrid) Mood, Propositional Attitudes and Metarepresentation in Spanish M

    Accepted talks

    Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan University) Tolerating exceptions with ''descriptive'' and ''in virtue of'' generics: two types of modality and reduced vagueness