20.2140, Confs: Sign Language, General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 20.2140, Confs: Sign Language, General Linguistics/France

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Date: 10-Jun-2009
From: Carlo Geraci < carlo.geraci at unimib.it >
Subject: Formal Approaches to Sign Languages
 

	
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:31:14
From: Carlo Geraci [carlo.geraci at unimib.it]
Subject: Formal Approaches to Sign Languages

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Formal Approaches to Sign Languages 

Date: 27-Jul-2009 - 31-Jul-2009 
Location: Bordeaux, France 
Contact: Carlo Cecchetto 
Contact Email: carlo.cecchetto at unimib.it 
Meeting URL: http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/FASLcall.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 
Meeting Description: 

This workshop is organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic,
Language and Information ESSLLI 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr to be held in
Bordeaux (20-31 July, 2009) and is supported by the Department of Psychology of
University of Milan-Bicocca. 

Formal Approaches to Sign Languages 

Program

The Workshop on Formal approaches to sign languages is organized in the 
framework of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information 
(ESSLLI 2009). 
Information about ESSLLI 2009 can be found at: http://esslli2009.labri.fr 
The Workshop will be held at the Université Bordeaux 2 Site de la Victoire, 
from July 27 to July 31 2009. 
The workshop is organized with the support of:
University of Milan-Bicocca, Department of Psychology
Institut Jean-Nicod, 'Euryi' grant to P. Schlenker, ESF

July 27, 2009 
17,15-18,15 Invited Talk 
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University) 
Sign Languages and the Self-Organization of Phonology 
 
18,15-18,45
Diane Brentari and Petra Eccarius (Purdue University)
A Formal Analysis of Phonological Contrast in Sign Language Handshape   

July 28, 2009 
17,15-17,45
Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod and NYU)
Donkey Anaphora in French Sign Language   
 
17,45-18,15
Elena V. Koulidobrova (University of Connecticut)
SELF: Intensifier and 'long distance' effects in ASL   
 
18,15-18,45
Kathryn Davidson, Ivano Caponigro, and Rachel Mayberry (University of 
California, San Diego)
Testing Calculation of Scalar Implicatures in English and American Sign 
Language   

July 29, 2009 
17,15-17,45
Carol Neidle, (Boston University), Nicholas Michael (Rutgers University), Joan 
Nash (Boston University), and Dimitry Metaxas (Rutgers University)
A Method for Recognition of Grammatical Significant Head Movements and Facial 
Expressions, Developed Though Use of a Linguistically Annotated Video Corpus   

17,45-18,45 Invited Talk
Josep Quer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Agreement and Argument Structure in Sign Languages: A Case Study in LSC 
psychological predications 

July 30, 2009 
17,15-17,45
Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University) and Christian Rathmann (University of 
Hamburg)
Two Types of Nonconcatenative Morphology in Signed Languages   

17,45-18,15
Jeffrey Bernath (University of Connecticut)
Evidence for Articles in American Sign Language   
 
18,15-18,45
Enoch O. Aboh and Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam)
Spatial Adposition in Sign Language   

July 31, 2009 
17,15-17,45
Caterina Donati (University of Rome-La Sapienza) and Chiara Branchini 
(University of Milan-Bicocca)
Simultaneous Grammars: Two Word Orders but Only One Morphology   

17,45-18,45 Invited Talk
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)
Indexing and Indexicals in American Sign Language 

Alternate Speakers: 
Natasha Abner (UCLA) 
Interpretive Effects of Wh-R in American Sign Language 
  
Ivano Caponigro and Kathryn Davidson ( University of California, San Diego ) 
Exhaustivity and Pragmatic Properties in the Question-Answer Clause in American 
Sign Language 
 
Workshop organizers:
- Carlo Cecchetto, University of Milan-Bicocca
- Carlo Geraci, University of Milan-Bicocca 
- Sandro Zucchi, University of Milan





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