LINGUIST List 15.2738
Sat Oct 02 2004
Confs: Pragmatics/Semantics/Nijmegen, Netherlands
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1. Uli
Sauerland,
2nd Meeting of the Semantiknetzwerk
Message 1: 2nd Meeting of the Semantiknetzwerk
Date: 29-Sep-2004
From: Uli Sauerland <uli
alum.mit.edu>
Subject: 2nd Meeting of the Semantiknetzwerk
2nd Meeting of the Semantiknetzwerk
Short Title: SEMNET 2
Date: 30-Oct-2004 - 31-Oct-2004
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Contact: Uli Sauerland
Contact Email: semnet
zas.gwz-berlin.de
Meeting URL:
http://www.semantiknetzwerk.de/meeting.html
Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): Pragmatics; Semantics
Meeting Description:
The Semantiknetzwerk (
http://www.semantiknetzwerk.de) is a collaboration
of researchers in Semantics and Pragmatics in and around Germany funded by
the German Research Agency DFG.
All interested researchers in semantics and pragmatics are invited to
attend the second meeting of the Semantiknetzwerk
(
http://www.semantiknetzwerk.de/meeting). The meeting is organized as a
satellite workshop to Sinn und Bedeutung 9 (
http://www.kun.nl/ncs/sub9/) in
Nijmegen and immediately precedes the main conference. The meeting is held
at the Hotel t'Spijker (
http://www.hotelspijker.nl) in Nijmegen. It is
important that all outside participants who haven't done so yet
pre-register informally by sending an email to semnet
zas.gwz-berlin.de.
Participants not directly involved in the Semantiknetzwerk project are
asked to make their own arrangements for accommodation. There will be a
charge of about 10 Euro collected during the meeting to cover the cost of
refreshments.
Dates: October 30 and 31, 2004
Location: Hotel t'Spijker (
http://www.hotelspijker.nl),
Rijksstraatweg 191
6573 CP Beek-Ubbergen
The Netherlands
ph.: +31-24-6841295
fax: +31-24-6843397
Program (talks are 40 min + 20 min question period):
Oct 30 (Saturday) morning, 9 - 12:10
Gerhard Jäger - Partial variables, presuppositions and compositionality
Uli Sauerland - t.b.a.
Orin Percus - t.b.a.
Oct 30 (Saturday) afternoon, 13:30 - 18:00
Doris Penka - On the Semantics and Pragmatics of ''almost''
Regine Eckardt - Talking about things - salient sets in discourse
Graham Katz - Presuppositions and the English perfect
Bart Geurts - ''More than two'' vs. ''at least three'': what's the difference?
Oct 31 (Sunday) morning, 9:00 - 12:10
Cecile Meier - Negative polarity items
Penka Stateva - Presuppositions in superlatives
Yael Sharvit - A note on superlatives and NPI licensing
Oct 31 (Sunday) afternoon, 13:30 - 18:00
Manfred Krifka - Implicatures and antonyms
Richard Breheny - Recent Experimental Results in Pragmatics: An Overview
Philippe Schlenker - t.b.a.
Ede Zimmermann - t.b.a.
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