Construction of Meaning Workshop

The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor:

9th SEMANTICS FEST

Friday, March 14, 2008
Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460, Rm 126

The Construction of Meaning Workshop is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and made possible by support from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Stanford University Dean of Research

SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS

11:00-11:15 Welcome

11:15-11:45

Caitlin Fausey and Lera Boroditsky (Stanford University)
Oops! Describing and Remembering Accidental Agents in English, Spanish and Japanese

11:45-12:15

Arnold Zwicky (Stanford University)
What to Blame It On: Diathesis Alternations, Usage Advice, `Confusion', and Pattern Extension

12:15-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:30

Adrian Brasoveanu (Stanford University)
Comparative and Equative Correlatives Differentials

1:30-2:00

Sven Lauer (Stanford University)
Dependent Definites: On The Semantics of Free Relatives with -ever

2:00-2:30

Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford University)
Russian -nibud' Items as Dependent Indefinites

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:15

Jan Tore Lonning (Stanford University)
Vector-free Semantics for Locative PPs

3:15-3:45

Bill MacCartney
(Stanford University)
Containment, Exclusion, and Implicativity in Natural Logic

3:45-4:00 Break

4:00-4:30

Nate Chambers (Stanford University)
Learning Narratives from Newswire

4:30-5:00

Laura Whitton (Stanford University)
Quantification and Anaphora in Conditionals: Getting RESULTs