10.1739, Confs: Optimization of Interpretation

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Subject: 10.1739, Confs: Optimization of Interpretation

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Date:  Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:16:52 +0100 (MET)
From:  Fabien Reniers <Fabien.Reniers at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  Optimization of Interpretation

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Date:  Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:16:52 +0100 (MET)
From:  Fabien Reniers <Fabien.Reniers at let.uu.nl>
Subject:  Optimization of Interpretation

Utrecht (The Netherlands)
4-5 January 2000
Optimization of Interpretation
PROGRAM

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PROGRAM of the Conference on Optimization of Interpretation:

Location: UiL OTS, Utrecht University
Date: 4-5 January, 2000

Tuesday, January 4, 2000

09.15 AM                      Opening remarks

09.30 AM - 10.30 AM           Invited speaker: Reinhard Blutner
                              (Berlin)

10.30 AM - 11.00 AM           coffee break

11.00 AM - 11.40 AM           Bart Geurts (Nijmegen)
                              Buoyancy

11.40 AM - 00.20 PM           Benjamin Lyngfelt (G=94teborg)
                              OT Semantics and Control

00.20 PM - 01.30 PM           lunch break

01.30 PM - 02.10 PM           Arto Anttila (Boston)
                              The Partitive Constraint in OT:
                              Evidence from Finnish

02.10 PM - 02.50 PM           Alice ter Meulen (Groningen)
                              Optimizing self-reference in Dutch

02.50 PM - 03.30 PM           Eva Haji=FEov=A0 (Prague)
                              A Topic/Focus Based Glance at
                              Optimality Theory

03.30 PM - 04.00 PM           tea break

04.00 PM - 05.00 PM           Invited speaker: Gisbert Fanselow
                              (Potsdam)



Wednesday, January 5, 2000


09.15 AM - 10.15 AM           Invited speaker: Barbara Partee
                              (Amherst)

10.15 AM - 10.55 AM           Paul Dekker and Robert van Rooy
                              (Amsterdam)
                              Optimality Theory and Game Theory:
                              Some Parallels
                             =20
10.55 AM - 11.25 AM           coffee break

11.25 AM - 00.05 PM           Sarah Kennelly (Utrecht)
                              Specificity, Multiplication, and
                              Coercion

00.05 PM - 00.45 PM           Fabian Heck (Stuttgart)
                              Quantifier Scope in German and Cyclic
                              Optimisation


00.45 PM - 01.25 PM           Irene Kr=84mer (MPI, Nijmegen)
                              Disregard of a contextual constraint:
                              Children's interpretation of
                              indefinites

01.25 PM - 02.30 PM           lunch break

02.30 PM - 03.30 PM           Invited speaker: Paul Smolensky
                              (Johns Hopkins)

03.30 PM - 05.00 PM           Forum discussion
                  Chair:      Henri=89tte de Swart (Utrecht)
            Participants:     Renate Bartsch (Amsterdam)
                              Ken Drozd (Groningen)
                              Wietske Vonk (MPI, Nijmegen)
                              Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam)

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