The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor:
8th SEMANTICS FEST
Friday, March 16, 2007
Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460, Rm 126
Cosponsored by the Department of Linguistics and the Humanities Center Stanford University
SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS
08:45-9:00
Coffee and welcome
9:00-9:30
Bruno Estigarribia and Beth Levin
(Stanford University)
When under means `under to': Evidence for a unified locational semantics for English prepositions
9:30-10:00
Jeeyoung Peck
(Stanford University)
Positional shift of adjunct PPs, locative split and reanalysis of goal locative PPs in Middle Chinese
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:45
Anubha Kothari
(Stanford University)
Telicity as implicature -- A pragmatic account of Hindi perfectivity
10:45-11:15
Eystein Dahl
(University of Oslo/Stanford University)
Aspect and object alternation in Vedic Sanskrit
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:00
Jingxia Lin
(Stanford University)
The `ditransitive construction' with indirect object as provider in Mandarin Chinese
12:00-12:30
Arto Anttila and Vivienne Fong
(Stanford University)
Deriving quantitative patterns in variation and ambiguity
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:00
Yoshiko Matsumoto
(Stanford University)
Dealing with Japanese relative clauses and beyond: Integration of information
2:00-2:30
Arnold Zwicky and Douglas W. Kenter
(Stanford University)
Avoid vagueness? The case of sentence-initial linking
however
2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-3:15
Graham Katz
(Stanford University)
Quantified indirect speech, pre-semantic uses of context and the pragmatics/semantics boundary
3:15-3:45
Patricia Amaral and Scott Schwenter
(Ohio State Univesity/Stanford University and Ohio State University and CASBS)
The contextual dependence of inverted approximatives
3:45-4:15
Dmitry Levinson
(Stanford University)
Licensing of negative polarity particles in English
4:15-4:30
Break
4:30-5:00
Arnold Zwicky
(Stanford University)
Extris, extris
5:00-5:30
Elizabeth Traugott
(Stanford University)
On the development of ALL-pseudo-clefts in English
