STANFORD LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT

SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS WORKSHOP



Spring 1999 Workshop Series


Monday, May 24, 7:00 p.m.
Building 460, Room 126 (Margaret Jacks Hall, Conference Room)
"The Space of Nominal Reference"
Almerindo Ojeda (Linguistics Department, UC Davis)
(Abstract)


Thursday, May 20, 7:30 p.m.
Joint Workshop with Friendly Phonologists
Building 460, Room 126 (Margaret Jacks Hall, Conference Room)
"Towards a Formal Semantics of English Phrasal Intonation"
Christine Bartels (Cambridge University Press)
(Abstract)


Wednesday, May 12, 12:00 p.m.
Building 460, Room 126 (Margaret Jacks Hall, Conference Room)
"Ellipsis, Common Ground, and Dialogue Interaction"
Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
(Abstract)


Tuesday, May 4, 7:00 p.m.
Building 460, Room 126 (Margaret Jacks Hall, Conference Room)
"Focus and Contrastive Topic in a Complex Model of Discourse"
Daniel Büring (UCSC)
(Abstract)


Winter 1999 Workshop Series


Thursday, January 28, 5:30 p.m.
Building 460, Room 126 (Margaret Jacks Hall, Conference Room)
Thematic Proto-Roles
David Dowty (Ohio State University)

Autumn 1998 Workshop Series


Friday, December 11, 2:00 p.m.
Building 460, Room 126 (Margaret Jacks Hall, Conference Room)
"Optimal interpretation of anaphora"
Helen de Hoop (Utrecht University) and Petra Hendriks (University of Gronigen)
(Abstract)

Monday, December 7, 7:00 p.m.
Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249), UCSC
Note that this event is held at UC Santa Cruz!!
"Lexical entries for focus particles"
Manfred Bierwisch (Humboldt University at Berlin)

Thursday, December 3, 2:30 p.m.
Building 160, Room 161K (Political Science building, first floor)
"The Neural Theory of Semantics and Where Anglo-American Philosophy Goes Wrong"
George Lakoff (UC Berkeley)
(Abstract)

Monday, November 23, 7 p.m.
Margaret Jacks Hall (Main Quad, Building 460), Room 126
"The Semantics of Universal Concessive Conditionals and Alternative NPs"
Jean Mark Gawron (SRI International)

Monday, October 19, 7 p.m.
Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249), UCSC
Note that this event is held at UC Santa Cruz!!
"The Semantics of the Middle Voice"
Edit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UC Santa Cruz)
(Abstract)

Tuesday, October 6, 11 a.m.
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 122:
"Donkey Anaphora: Singular versus Plural"
Makoto Kanazawa (Chiba University and CSLI)
(Abstract)





Past Workshops:
Academic Year: 1997-1998

The Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop Planning Committee:

David Beaver
Stanley Peters
Stefan Kaufmann
Dave McKercher
Shiao-Wei Tham
Gary Gongwer
Ash Asudeh

Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305-2150 USA





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