20.1623, Confs: General Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Hungary

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Subject: 20.1623, Confs: General Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Hungary

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Date: 26-Apr-2009
From: Beáta Gyuris < gyuris at nytud.hu >
Subject: 10th Symposium on Logic and Language
 

	
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:37:06
From: Beáta Gyuris [gyuris at nytud.hu]
Subject: 10th Symposium on Logic and Language

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10th Symposium on Logic and Language 
Short Title: LoLa10 

Date: 26-Aug-2009 - 29-Aug-2009 
Location: Balatonszemes, Hungary 
Contact: Beáta Gyuris 
Contact Email: lola10 at nytud.hu 
Meeting URL: http://www.nytud.hu/lola10 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

The 2009 meeting is the tenth installment of the Symposium series, which is
designed to provide a forum where logicians and linguists can meet to share
and discuss ideas and issues about how linguistics and logic influence each
other, with the aim of promoting a fruitful cooperation. 

August 26 (Wednesday):

12:00-14:45	 
Registration at the Research Institute for Linguistics (1068 Budapest, Benczúr UTCA 33.)

15:00	 	 
Bus Departure to the Conference Site (Balatonszemes, Hotel Szemes)

18:30-19:30	 
Dinner at the Hotel

19:30-19:40	 
Opening Remarks

19:40-20:40	 
Donka F. Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz, Invited Speaker): TBA
 	 	 
August 27 (Thursday):

9:00-10:00	
Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Universitaet Frankfurt, Invited Speaker): TBA

10:00-10:35	
Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University): 
Additivity in the Domain of Eventualities

10:35-10:55	 
Coffee Break

10:55-11:30	
Cécile Meier (University of Frankfurt): 
A Comparative Analysis for Resemblance

11:30-12:05	
Rick Nouwen (Utrecht Institute for Linguistics / Utrecht University): 
The Semantics of Minimal Requirements

12:05-12:40	
I-Ta Chris Hsieh (University of Connecticut, Storrs): 
On NPI-Licensing and the Semantics of Causal Sentences

12:40-15:30     
Lunch Break

15:30-16:05     
Chris Fox (CSEE, University of Essex, UK): 
Obligations, Permissions and Transgressions: An Alternative Approach To Deontic Reasoning

16:05-16:40	
Edgar Onea (University of Stuttgart): 
To Choose or Not To Choose

16:40-17:00	
Coffee Break

17:00-17:35	
Richard Zuber (CNRS, Paris, France): 
On the Expressive Power of Non-Standard Constituents

17:35-18:10	
Xuping Li (Bar-Ilan University): 
Bare and Non-Bare Proper Names in Chinese

19:00	 	
Dinner
 	 	 
August 28 (Friday):
 
9.00- 9:35	
Setsuko Arita (Osaka Shoin Women's University) - Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University): 
The Japanese Unconditional Operator 'Doose'
 
9:35-10:10	
Carla Umbach (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück): 
Another Additive Particle under Stress: German Additive Noch

10:10-10:45	
Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam University): 
Asymmetry Markers in Discourse: The Expressive Meaning of Bitte (Please)

10:45-11:05	
Coffee Break

11:05-11:40	
Olga Kagan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): 
The Actual World is Abnormal: On the Semantics of the Bylo Construction in Russian

11:40-12:25	
Ashwini Deo (Yale University): 
Temporal Genericity and the Contribution of Imperfective Marking

12:25-14:00	
Lunch Break
Excursion
 Dinner
 	 	 
August 29 (Saturday):

9.00-10.00	
Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University, Invited Speaker): TBA

10.00-10.35	
Alastair Butler (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Tohoku University) - Kei Yoshimoto (Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University): Making Semantics Thrive on Cheap Syntax

10:35-10:55	
Coffee Break

10:55-11:30	
Alex Djalali (University of Amsterdam, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation) - Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University): 
Probabilistic Inferences in Dynamic Semantics

11:30-12:05	
Kerstin Schwabe (Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)) - Robert Fittler (Freie Universität, Berlin): 
Syntactic Force of Consistency Conditions for German Matrix Predicates

12:05-14:30	
Lunch Break

14:30-15:05	
Marta Abrusan (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, CNRS): 
The Division of Entailments and the Triggering Problem

15:05-15:40	
Anton Benz (Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)): 
On the Suspension of Implicatures

15:40	 	
End of Conference





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