17.1621, Confs: Computational Ling/Budapest, Hungary

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Subject: 17.1621, Confs: Computational Ling/Budapest, Hungary

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Date: 26-May-2006
From: Beáta Gyuris < lola9 at nytud.hu >
Subject: The 9th Symposium on Logic and Language 

	
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 01:26:21
From: Beáta Gyuris < lola9 at nytud.hu >
Subject: The 9th Symposium on Logic and Language 
 

The 9th Symposium on Logic and Language 
Short Title: LoLa9 

Date: 24-Aug-2006 - 26-Aug-2006 
Location: Budapest/Besenyotelek, Hungary 
Contact: Beáta Gyuris 
Contact Email: lola9 at nytud.hu 
Meeting URL: http://www.nytud.hu/lola9 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics;
Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

The 2006 meeting is the ninth 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 23 (Wednesday):                                                         
       

13:30-15:30 
Registration at the Research Institute for Linguistics (1068 Budapest, Benczúr
utca 33.) 
  
16:00 
Bus departure for the conference site (Besenyotelek, Hotel Fauna) 
  
19:00 
Dinner at the hotel 
 

August 24 (Thursday):                                                          
8:45- 9:00 
Opening remarks 
  
9:00- 9:50 
Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Vladimir Borschev
(VINITI RAN, Moscow and University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Information
structure, perspectival structure, diathesis alternation, and the Russian
genitive of negation 
  
9:55-10:35  
Cláudio C. e C. Gonçalves (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina):
Imperfectivity phenomena 
  
10:35-11:00  
Coffee break 
  
11:00-11:40  
Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University): Structuring temporal and aspectual
relations with two Hebrew adverbials, and the semantics/pragmatics of still 
  
11:45-12:25  
Atle Grønn (University of Oslo): Information structure and aspectual competition 
  
12:25-14:00  
Lunch break 
  
14:00-14:40  
Ana Teresa Alves (Universidade dos Açores): Anaphoric temporal locators and
discourse structure 
  
14:45-15:25  
Stefan Bott (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Links, tails and monotonicity 
  
15:25-15:50  
Coffee break 
  
15:50-16:30  
Lisa Brunetti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): On links and tails in Italian 
  
16:35-17:15  
Adrian Brasoveanu (Rutgers University & University of Stuttgart): Entailment
particles and content anaphora in natural language 
  
17:20-18:00  
Gerhard Jäger (University of Bielefeld): Presuppositions, games, and bounded
rationality 
  
18:15  
Reception 
  
19:00  
Dinner 

August 25 (Friday):                                                                 
9.00- 9:50  
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University/ZAS, Berlin): TBA 
  
9:55-10:35  
Kjell Johan Sæbø (University of Oslo): Theticity in a bidirectional theory of focus 
  
10:35-11:00  
Coffee break 
  
11:00-11:40  
Kata Balogh (University of Amsterdam): Exhausitivity operator(s) and Hungarian
focus structure 
  
11:45-12:25  
Elena Karagjosova (University of Oslo): The German response particle 'doch' as a
case of contrastive focus 
  
12:25-14:00  
Lunch break 
  
14:00-14:40  
Kriszta Szendr?i and Iris Mulders (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS):
Resolving focal ambiguity on-line 
  
14:45-15:25  
Marcus Kracht (UCLA): Gnosis 
  
15:45  
Excursion 
  
19:00  
Dinner 


August 26 (Saturday):                                                          
      
6:00- 9:00  
Birdwatching (optional) 
  
9:30-10:20  
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London): Non sentential utterances and
information structure 
  
10:25-11:05  
Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & IJN): Be articulate! 
  
11:10-11:50  
Robert van Rooij (University of Amsterdam): How to donkey Dayal's modal any 
  
11:50-12:10  
Coffee break 
  
12:10-12:50  
Zsófia Zvolenszky (ELTE University, Budapest): A semantic constraint on the
logic of modal conditionals 
  
12:55-13:35  
Richard Zuber (CNRS, Paris): Some modifiers of conditionals 
  
13:35-14:30  
Lunch break 
  
14:30-15:10  
Olga Kagan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Specificity as speaker identifiability 
  
15:15-15:55  
Carla Umbach (University of Osnabrueck): Non-restrictive modification and
backgrounding 
  
16:00 
End of Conference 
  
17:00  
Departure to the train station





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