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    Message 1: Texas Linguistic Society 8: Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

     Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:43:02 -0500 (EST)
    From: mccready <mccreadymail.utexas.edu>
    Subject: Texas Linguistic Society 8: Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface


    Texas Linguistic Society 8: Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Short Title: TLS 8

    Date: 05-Mar-2004 - 07-Mar-2004 Location: Austin, TX, United States of America Contact: Brian Reese Contact Email: tlsuts.cc.utexas.edu Meeting URL: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2004tls

    Linguistic Sub-field: Pragmatics, Semantics

    Meeting Description:

    The aim of TLS 8 is to provide a forum for the presentation of original research on the interface of semantic and pragmatic theories. We welcome the submission of papers on topics including (but not limited to) lexical semantics, presupposition, anaphora resolution, quantification, propositional attitude attribution, modality and indexicality within all frameworks, including logical, linguistic, psycholinguistic and computational approaches.

    Program: Texas Linguistic Society 8

    Issues at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface March 5-7, 2004 Austin, Texas Website: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/

    Friday, March 5

    8.00-8.45 a.m. Registration, Coffee and Refreshments 8.45-9.00 a.m. Opening Remarks

    First Invited Talk 9.00-10.15 a.m. Nicholas Asher (UT Austin); title TBA 10.15-10.30 a.m. Break

    Session I

    10.30-11.00 a.m. 1. Subjunctive relative clauses -Francesca Panzeri (Milan-Bicocca)

    11.00-11.30 a.m. 2. Epistemic would, clefts, and functional compositionality -Betty J. Birner, Jeffrey P. Kaplan, Gregory Ward (Northern Illinois U, San Diego State U, Northwestern)

    11.30 a.m.-12.00 p.m. 3.Complex wh-FCIs are semantically different from any-FCIs: evidence from English, Greek, French -Evangelia Vlachou (Utrecht)

    12.00-1.30 p.m. Lunch

    Session II

    1.30-2.00 p.m. 1.Quality and Questions -Christine Gunlogson (Rochester)

    2.00-2.30 p.m. 2.Japanese Contrastive wa: Implicature Unsuspendable -Yurie Hara (Delaware)

    2.30-3.00 p.m. 3. Inference in focus: the wider implications of pragmatic theory -Daniel Wedgwood (Edinburgh)

    3.00-3.15 p.m. Break

    Second Invited Talk 3.15-4.30 p.m. David Beaver (Stanford); title TBA 4.30-4.45 p.m. Break

    Session III

    4.45-5.15 p.m. 1.Toward a uniform analysis of short answers and gapping -Ingo Reich (Tuebingen)

    5.15-5.45 p.m. 2. The definiteness effect in English HAVE sentences -Shiao Wei Tham (Stanford)

    5.45-6.15 p.m. 3.Ways of not being there -Lucia M. Tovena (Lille 3)

    Saturday, March 6

    Third Invited Talk 9.00-10.15 a.m. Carlota Smith (UT Austin); title TBA 10.15-10.30 a.m. Break

    Session IV

    10.30-11.00 a.m. 1. Distributivity and interpretation: in support of a modal treatment of the progressive -Susie Jones (U British Columbia)

    11.00-11.30 a.m. 2. An Aspectual Analysis of Mandarin Verbal -le and Sentential -le -Maejia Gao, Hooi Ling Soh (Indiana, U Minnesota)

    11.30 a.m.-12.00 p.m. 3. Brands of perfects and the semanticspragmatics interface -Patrick Caudal (CNRS and Paris 7)

    12.00-1.30 p.m. Lunch

    Session V

    1.30-2.00 p.m. 1. The interaction between number and person in Chinese -Robert Iljic (CNRS, EHESS)

    2.00-2.30 p.m. 2. Future reference without future tense -Bridget Copley (U Southern California)

    2.30-3.00 p.m. 3. The Semantic Types of Propositions, Facts, and Events -Michael Hegarty (Louisiana State U)

    3.00-3.15 p.m. Break

    Fourth Invited Talk 3.15-4.30 p.m. James Pustejovsky (Brandeis); title TBA 4.30-4.45 p.m. Break

    Session VI

    4.45-5.15 p.m. 1.On the interpretation of null objects in French -Sarah Cummins, Yves Roberge (Universit� Laval, U Toronto)

    5.15-5.45 p.m. 2. The Estonian pronoun 'tema' and the role of contrast in pronoun interpretation -Elsi Kaiser (U Rochester)

    5.45-6.15 p.m. 3.Coreferential Interpretations of Reflexives in Picture Noun Phrases: an Experimental Approach -Micah Goldwater, Jeffrey T. Runner (UT Austin, U Rochester)

    Sunday, March 7

    Fifth Invited Talk 10-11.15 a.m. Berhnard Schwarz (UT Austin); title TBA 11.15-11.30 a.m. Break

    Session VII

    11.30 a.m.-12.00 p.m. 1. Varieties of (In-)Subordination: The Case of V2-Relatives -Hans-Martin Gaertner (ZAS Berlin)

    12.00-12.30 p.m. 2.On the semantics of German root and complement clauses -Kerstin Schwabe (ZAS Berlin)

    12.30-1.00 3.Neg-Raising and the interpretation of adjectival modifiers -Rajesh Bhatt, Yael Sharvit (UT Austin, U Connecticut)



    Alternates

    French final tunes and attitude attribution -Claire Beyssade and Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod)

    The propositional content of absolute constructions and epistemic SDRS conditions -Alda Mari (CNRS-ENST, Paris)

    Rhetorical relations in verbal eventual representations? Evidence from psych verbs - Alexandros Tantos (Konstanz)