Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop
THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING
 
 
 

THIRD ANNUAL SEMANTICS FEST
FRIDAY, MARCH 15
CORDURA 100

      (Final schedule)

8:45-9:00 COFFEE AND BAGELS

SESSION 1 Chair: Beth Levin

9:00-9:30 David Beaver, Brady Clark, Edward Flemming, and Maria Wolters
  "Debunking the argument from second occurrence focus"

9:30-10:00 David Oshima
  "Contrastive Topic, Focus Particles and the Square of
  Opposition" 

10:00-10:15 BREAK

SESSION 2 Chair: Brady Clark

10:15-10:45 Ivan Garcia-Alvarez
  "Exceptive NPs and the quantifier constraint"

10:45-11:15 Stanley Peters and Dag Westerstahl
  "Symmetric quantifiers"

11:15-11:30 BREAK

SESSION 3 Chair: Hana Filip

11:30-12:00 Ash Asudeh and Richard Crouch
  "Coordination and parallelism in Glue Semantics:
  reconciling discourse cohesion and the element
  constraint through proof parallelism" 

12:00-12:30 Luis Casillas
  "Communities of form as communities of construal: 
  The semantics of morphosyntactic gender agreement"

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

SESSION 4 Chair: John Beavers

1:30-2:00 Arnold Zwicky
  "What is said and what is unsaid"

2:00-2:30 Aviv Bergman, Tom Wasow, Amy Perfors, Thorsten Brants,
  and David Beaver
  "Why does ambiguity exist?"

2:30-3:00 Dominic Widdows and Beate Dorow
  "Constructing semantic taxonomies from corpora:
  Picking the low-lying apples and pears and ackees"

3:00-3:30 BREAK

SESSION 5 Chair: Ivan Sag

3:30-4:00 Cleo Condoravdi
  "Punctual `until' as a scalar NPI"

4:00-4:30 Roger Levy
  "Non-events and the aspectual class of 'keep' "

4:30--  SOCIAL