6.1715, Confs: Workshop on focus (final program)
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Subject: 6.1715, Confs: Workshop on focus (final program)
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:35:30 EST
From: focus at linguist.umass.edu (Workshop on Focus)
Subject: workshop on focus final program
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:35:30 EST
From: focus at linguist.umass.edu (Workshop on Focus)
Subject: workshop on focus final program
This is the final program.
You will find an approximate map of the UMass Campus at the end of this
message.
We hope you enjoy the Workshop!
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WORKSHOP ON FOCUS
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
December 8-10, 1995
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****REVISED PROGRAM****
FRIDAY 12/8
Bartlett 206
12:00 - 1:00 Registration
1:00 - 1:10 Opening Remarks
1:10 - 1:50 Catherine Rudin (Wayne State College),
Tracy Holloway King (Standford),
Roumyana Izvorski (University of Pennsylvania):
Focus in Bulgarian and Russian Yes-No Questions.
1:50 - 2:30 Maribel Romero (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
The P-set of a Focused wh-word.
Break (20 min.)
2:50 - 3:30 Olga Babko-Malaya (Rutgers University)
Context-Dependent Quantifiers Restricted by Focus.
3:30 - 4:10 Daniel Buring (University og Koln):
Topics and Disambiguation.
4:10 - 4:50 Mary Wu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Focus, Structure and Uniqueness Implications of the NP --
with special reference to complex NPs in Mandarin Chinese.
Break (20 min.)
5:10 - 6:20 Invited Speakers:
Eva Hajicova (Universita Karlova)
Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts)
Petr Sgall (Universita Karlova)
Focus, Topic and Semantics
SATURDAY 12/9
Hasbrouck
9:30 - 10:10 Eugenia Casielles (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
FOCUS PREPOSING (it's called).
10:10 - 10:50 David Beck (Universtiy of Toronto)
On the Syntactic Expression of Topic and Rheme in Two
Salishan Languages.
Break (20 min.)
11:10 - 12:20 Invited Speaker
Elisabeth Selkirk (University of Massachusetts)
Prosodic Reflexes of Focus
Lunch (1h. 40 min.)
2:00 - 2:40 Akihiko Uechi (University of British Columbia):
Focus Phrasing in Japanese: An Optimality Approach.
2:40 - 3:10 Amy Schafer (University of Massachusetts at Amherst):
Prosodic Phrasing and Focus: The Bounded Projection
Hypothesis.
Break (20 min.)
3:30 - 4:10 Elena Herburger (University of Southern California):
Presupposition vs. Assertion: a Neo-Davidsonian Account.
4:10 - 4:50 Cecile Meier (University of Tubingen):
Allegation under Negation in Causal Contexts.
4:50 - 5:30 Julie Sedivy, Michael Tannenhaus, Gregory Carlson
(University of Rochester):
Using Contrast Sets to Resolve Reference On-line.
SUNDAY 12/10
Hasbrouck
9:30 - 10:10 Ricardo Echepare (University of Maryland):
A Case for Two Types of Focus in Basque.
10:10 - 10:50 Juvenal Ndayiragije (University of Western Ontario):
TP-Internal Focus in Bantu and "Attract-F".
10:50 - 11:30 Edward Gobbel (University of Tubingen):
On the Syntax of Focus-Movement in Romanian.
Break (20 min.)
11:50 - 12:30 Dag E. Wold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
How to Interpret Multiple Foci without Moving
a Focused Constituent.
12:30 - 1:10 Bernhard Schwarz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
On Kratzer's Tanglewood Example.
*Alternates*
Eloise Jelinek (University of Arizona)
Pronoun Classes and Focus
Rosemary Stevenson (University of Durham)
Focusing of Elements in a Discourse Model:
Thematic Role Effects on the Accessibility of a
PronounUs Antecedents
Robert Van Valin (State University of New York)
Cross-Linguistic Variation in Structural Constraints on Focus
Robert Westmoreland (Indiana University)
Contrastiveness as embedded focus
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HOW TO GET AROUND THE ***UMASS CAMPUS***
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C |---->--->- | | | |
O | Parking Garage *Hasbrouck* |
M | ______ |
M | | | | North
O | |______| | Pleasant
N |---->--- South College | Street
W | ________ |
E | | | |
A | | | |
L | _______*Bartlett* | Pond | |
T | | | | | |
H | | | | | |
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A | |_____ | | / |
V | ________ |___/ |
E | | | |
| | | Haigis Mall |
| |______ | (bus stop) |
| Herter ___x___ |
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to 116 (and Northampton) to Amherst
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