12.1598, Confs: Is Meaning Dynamic? - Colloquium/ Prague

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Date:  Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:00:11 +0200
From:  Jaroslav Peregrin <peregrin at dec59.ruk.cuni.cz>
Subject:  Is Meaning Dynamic? - Prague International Colloquium

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Date:  Sun, 17 Jun 2001 09:00:11 +0200
From:  Jaroslav Peregrin <peregrin at dec59.ruk.cuni.cz>
Subject:  Is Meaning Dynamic? - Prague International Colloquium

IS MEANING DYNAMIC?
(Prague International Colloquium)
Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic, September 11-14, 2001

Further information & registration:
http://www.flu.cas.cz/logica/col2001/main.htm


PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Tuesday, September 11

13.00	Registration
14.00	Opening address
14.10	Invited Lecture:
	JOHAN VAN BENTHEM (Amsterdam/Stanford):
	Dynamics of Meaning
15.10	Tea / Coffee Break
15.40	Paul Dekker (Amsterdam):	
	Grounding Dynamic Semantics
16.20	Wolfram Hinzen (Regensburg):		
	Meaning and cognitive architecture

Wednesday, September  12

09.00	Invited Lecture
	HANS KAMP (Stuttgart):
	tba
10.00	Tea / Coffee Break
10.30	Friederike Moltmann (Liverpool):	
	Presuppositions and the Semantic Dynamic Approach
11.10	Richard Breheny (Cambridge):
	Reflections on the Dynamic Turn in the study
		of language and meaning
11.50	Lunch Break
14.00	Hans Rott (Regensburg):	
	Belief Change vs. Meaning Change
14.40	Christopher Gauker (Cincinnati):
	Conditionals as Context-Relative Rules of Inference
15.20	Hiroyuki Nishina (Saitama):
	Extracting Semantic Features from Spatiotemporal
		Information on Action Using Modal Logic

Thursday, September 13

09.00	Invited Lecture
	GABRIEL SANDU (Helsinki):
	tba
10.00	Tea / Coffee Break
10.30	Manuel Rebuschi (Nancy):	
	A New Chance for Substitution?
11.10	Louise Vigeant (Ottawa):	
	What Would Justify a Verificationist Theory of Meaning?
11.50	Lunch Break
14.00	Anna Sierszulska (Krakow):		
	Context dependence and compositionality in theories
		of meaning
14.40	Tero Tulenheimo (Helsinki):
	Independence-Friendly Tense Logic and its Expressive Power
15.20	Tea / Coffee Break
15.50	Vladimir Svoboda and Timothy Childers (Prague):		
	On the Meaning of Prescriptions
16.30	Berislav Zarnic (Split): 	
	Dynamic models, intentional states and practical logic
17.10	Blazena Svandova (Brno):		
	Distinction between reductionistic and holistic features
		of natural languages

Friday, September 14

09.00	Ruth Kempson and Wilfrid Meyer-Viol (London):
	Anaphoric Processes of Interpretation and the Growth
		of Logical Form
09.40	Klaus von Heusinger (Konstanz):
	Double Dynamics: Definite Descriptions
10.20	Tea / Coffee Break
10.50	Jiri Havelka and Petr Sgall (Prague):	
	Dynamics in the meaning of sentence and of discourse
11.30 	Jaroslav Peregrin (Prague):	
	Dynamic semantics - a new paradigm?
12.10 	End of the Colloquium


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