12.316, Confs: Formal Pragmatics - Humboldt Univ/ Germany

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Date:  Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:17:59 +0100
From:  "Anton Benz" <toni.benz at german.hu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Formal Pragmatics - Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

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Date:  Fri, 2 Feb 2001 16:17:59 +0100
From:  "Anton Benz" <toni.benz at german.hu-berlin.de>
Subject:  Formal Pragmatics - Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Workshop on FORMAL PRAGMATICS - CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION

Date: 16. to 18. March 2001,
Location: Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Organised by
    Anton Benz (Berlin)
    Reinhard Blutner (Berlin)
    Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen)

http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/dialog/work2.html
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Although formal pragmatics has a long tradition,
it has generally been in the shadow of formal
semantics. But recently there has been a rapid
progress in the field, as witness the
development of new approaches such as:

    - Optimality theory (OT)
    - Game and decision Theory
    - Theory of distributed Systems
    - Logic-based approaches
    - Extensions of dynamic semantics
    - Extensions of classical pragmatic
approaches

This workshop offers an opportunity for the
discussion of new approaches to formal
pragmatics.

*********************************************
Information about participation, registration,
and the preliminary program are available at

http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/dialog/work2.html
********************************************

Invited Speakers:
- ---------------

Nicholas Asher (Austin)
Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
Arthur Merin (Munich)

Talks:
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Daniel Büring:
Discourse-Trees and Dynamic Updates

Tim Fernando:
A modal framework for presupposition

Hans-Martin Gärtner:
Bound Focus and Assertionality: Evidence from V2-
Relatives

Michael  Grabski:
Elaborating the Discourse Topic Using Sentence
Topics

Andrea Gualmini, Luisa Meroni, Maria Teresa
Guasti, Gennaro Chierchia, Stephen Crain:
Experimental Investigations on the
Semantics/Pragmatics Interface in Child Language

Christine Gunlogson:
Rising Declarative Questions

Petra Hendriks:
Dislocated "Either" and Anaphora

Yan Huang:
Long-distance reflexivisation, Optimality Theory
and neo-Gricean pragmatics

Peter Krause:
Presupposition justification as abductive
reasoning - a formalization

Manfred Kupffer:
An ontology for expressions, occurences, and
contexts

Ingolf Max:
Reanalizing Grice's Square Brackets Device

Rob van Rooy:
Implicatures and Relevance in Bidirectional-OT

Uli Sauerland:
In Defense of a Global Account of Scalar
Implicatures

Bernhard Schröder, Hans-Christian Schmitz:
Representing ambiguous multiple focus
constructions

Jennifer Spenader:
Two takes on  too

Carla Umbach:
Contrastive topic and the use of but for topic
change

Henk Zeevat:
A Reconstruction of Discourse Representation
Theory in Bidirectional Optimality Theory

Program Committee
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Nicholas Asher (Austin)
Anton Benz (Berlin)
Reinhard Blutner (Berlin)
Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen)
Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
Gerhard Jäger (Utrecht)
Manfred Krifka (Berlin)
Jason Mattausch (Amsterdam)
Arthur Merin (Munich)
Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam)

Conference Homepage
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http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/dialog/work2.html


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