10.1635, Confs: Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish

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Subject: 10.1635, Confs: Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish

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Date:  Thu, 28 Oct 1999 23:53:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Javier Gutierrez-Rexach <gutierrez-rexach.1 at osu.edu>
Subject:  Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish

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Date:  Thu, 28 Oct 1999 23:53:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Javier Gutierrez-Rexach <gutierrez-rexach.1 at osu.edu>
Subject:  Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish

                         International Conference
                 SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF SPANISH

                         November 6-7, 1999

                      The Ohio State University

                            Fawcett Center,
                     2400 Olentangy River Road,
                      Columbus, OH. 43210-10027

                               Program

	                Saturday, November 6.

Session I.

9:00am-9:30am	Juan Pablo Mora Gutiérrez (Universidad de Sevilla)
          	Motion Verbs in Spanish: Towards the Integration of the
Constructional              	and Lexicalist Views

9:30am-10:00am  Raúl Aranovich (University of Texas at San Antonio)
  		Quasi-Reflexive Verbs and the Semantics of Split Intransitivity

10:00am-10:30am	Begoña Villada and Carl Vogel (University of Dublin)
           	Grammatical Relations and Semantic Argument Structure
		in Spanish Emotions

Session II.

11:00am-11:30am	Luis Fernando Alonso (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
           	Aspect and Situations: A Situation Semantics Account of the
Semantic 			Variability of "Al"-clauses

11:30am-12:00am	Rosa Junia García Córdova (Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana, México)
		The Shifted Reading of the Spanish Simple Past as Dependent on
Presupposition Accommodation

12:00am-12:30am	Silvia Gennari (Brown University)
           	Spanish Past and Future Tenses: Less (Semantics) is More

Session III.

2:20pm-3:00pm	Brenda Laca (Université de Paris 8/CNRS) and Lilianne
Tasmowski 			(UIA-Anvers)
           	Distributividad y lecturas dependientes de las expresiones de
identidad
                (Distributivity and Dependent Readings in Identity Expressions)

3:00pm-3:30pm	Marta Luján (University of Texas at Austin) and Claudia Parodi
(UCLA)
           	The Scope of Negation: Negative Polarity Items in Spanish and
English

3:30pm-4:00pm  	Richard Zuber (CNRS, Paris)
           	Some Spanish Quantifier Modifiers

Session IV.

4:30pm-5:00pm	Mark Davies (Illinois State University)
           	Diachronic Shifts in the Interpretation of Spanish Infinitival
Clauses

5:00pm-5:30pm  	Margarita Suñer (Cornell University)
           	Clitic Doubling: At the Syntax-Semantics Interface

5:30pm-6:00pm  	Laura Colantoni (University of Minnesota)
           	Clitic Doubling, Clitic Climbing and Null Objects in the Spanish
of  			Corrientes (Argentina).  The Pragmatics-Syntax Interface

Session V.

6:30pm-7:10pm  	Manuel Casado Velarde (Universidad de Navarra)
           	Semántica y pragmática en el léxico metalingüístico
(metadiscursivo) del 		español actual (Semantics and Pragmatics in the
Metalinguistic Lexicon                  of Contemporary Spanish)

7:10pm-7:50pm 	Manuel Leonetti (Universidad de Alcalá) and M.Victoria
Escandell (UNED)
           	Propiedades como estados (Properties as States)


                      	Sunday,  November 7. 			

Session I.

8:30am-9:00am  	Carmen Ríos (University of Northumbria at Newcastle)
           	Hedges and All That: Vagueness in Spanish Political Language

9:00am-9:30am  	Scott Schwenter (The Ohio State University)
           	Lexical Sensitivity to Pragmatic Implicature: Evidence from
Spanish 			Connectives

9:30am-10:00am 	Jessica Payeras (Université du Québec à Montréal)
           	How Does Intonation Help in the Structuring of Discourse :
Evidence 			from Colombian Spanish

10:00am-10:30am	Juan Manuel Sosa (Simon Fraser University)
           	The Intonational Structure of Declamatory Declaratives in Spanish

Session II.

11:00am-11:30am	Rosa Montes (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla )
           	Metáforas visuales en funciones metadiscursivas (Visual
Metaphors and                   their Meta-Discursive Functions)

11:30am-12:00pm	Maite Taboada (University of Alberta / Universidad
Complutense,  Madrid)
        	Turnos de habla espontaneos, o que hacer cuando nadie dice "cambio"
                (Spontaneous Turn-Taking, or What to Do When Nobody Says
"Change")

12:00pm-12:30pm	Robert E. Vann (Western Michigan University); Dale A. Koike
(University 		of Texas at Austin) and Joan Busquets (Universite de Bordeaux)
           	Spanish "no, si":  A particle of politeness

Session III.

2:30pm-3:10pm  	José Portolés (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
           ¨	¿Qué nos dicen del discurso los marcadores del español?
                (What do Spanish Markers Tell us about Discourse?)

3:10pm-3:40pm  	Jeane Yates (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
		Una comparación de los usos, los marcadores y las implicaturas en el
preterito perfecto de indicativo del español y el "present perfect" del
inglés (A Comparison between the Uses, Markers and Implicatures of
Spanish and English Present Perfect)

3:40pm-4:10pm  	Eduardo Bustos (UNED) and Francisco Aliaga (Universidad
Complutense)
		Espacios mentales y actitudes epistémicas
                (Mental Spaces and Epistemic Attitudes)


Session IV.

4:40pm-5:10pm  	Xosé Rosales Sequeiros (University of Leicester)
           	Non-Declarative Sentences in Spanish: The Case of the Infinitive

5:10pm-5:40pm  	Fernando García Murga (LEIA/Universidad del País Vasco)
           	The Semantics and Pragmatics of Lexical Verbal Presuppositions

5:40pm-6:10pm  	Josep Maciá (Universidad de Barcelona)
           	On the Interaction of Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics: A Case Study


Full information about the conference, including the complete program,
 registration and hotel information, is available at our website:

	http://sppo.ohio-state.edu/
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Javier Gutierrez-Rexach
Dept. of Spanish & Dept. of Linguistics
The Ohio State University
266 Cunz Hall
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1229

Phone: (614) 292-1533
Fax: (614) 292-7726
E-mail: gutierrez-rexach.1 at osu.edu

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