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Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop:

The Construction of Meaning

Second Annual Stanford Semantics Fest

March 16, 2001 (Friday)
Cordura 100 (CSLI)
  • Coffee and lunch will be served in the lobby of the same building.
  • Remember that parking in the adjacent A-lot is not free on Fridays.
  • Any ideas, contributions etc. for evening entertainment are welcome.

Tentative Program

8:30 - 8:50 Coffee and Bagels/Muffins
8:50 - 9:00 WELCOME
 
Session 1     chair: David Beaver (Stanford University)
9:00 Yo Matsumoto:
Notes on the differences between lexical causativization and anticausativization in Japanese and English
9:35 Itamar Francez:
An eventless semantics for manner adverbs
 
10:10 - 10:30 BREAK
 
Session 2     chair: Luis Casillas (Stanford University)
10:30 Stefan Kaufmann, Stanley Peters:
How not to lump thoughts
11:05 Mike Dukes:
The Distribution of (Non)Specific Articles in Tongan
11:40 Shiao Wei Tham:
Abducing HAVE sentences
 
12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH (PLEASE NOTE: Lunch is provided)
 
Session 3     chair: Martina Faller (Stanford University)
1:15 Geoffrey Nunberg:
Referential-Attributive and Deferred Interpretation
1:50 Arnold Zwicky:
Counting chad
2:25 Dominic Widdows:
Algebraic methods for disambiguation
 
3:00 - 3:20 BREAK
 
Session 4     chair: David McKercher (Stanford University)
3:20 Ash Asudeh, Richard Crouch:
Glue Semantics: A General Theory of Meaning Composition
3:55 John Fry:
A semantically annotated Japanese speech corpus
4:30 Elizabeth Traugott:
What is the proper role of Levinson's Q- and M-inferences in semantic change?
 
5:05 - 6:05 SOCIAL HOUR
 
 
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Mail comments to casillas@stanford.edu.
Last modified: Fri Apr 6 23:01:27 2001
This workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, and funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.