19.46, Confs: Computational Ling,Pragmatics,Semantics,Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 19.46, Confs: Computational Ling,Pragmatics,Semantics,Syntax/Spain

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Date: 02-Jan-2008
From: Louise McNally < louise.mcnally at upf.edu >
Subject: Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language

 

	
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Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language 

Date: 28-Mar-2008 - 29-Mar-2008 
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact: Louise McNally 
Contact Email: louise.mcnally at upf.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

A Workshop on Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language will be
held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, March 28-29, 2008. 

Workshop on Reference to Abstract Objects in Natural Language
March 28-29, 2008
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

Friday, March 28

9:30-10:30	
Nicholas Asher, CNRS/U. Paul Sabatier

10:30-10:50 	
Coffee Break

10:50-11:30	
Klaus Robering, A functional theory of abstract objects	

11:30-12:10	
Tim Fernando, Propositions-as-types and possible situations	

12:10-12:30	
Coffee Break

12:30-13:10     
Costanza Navarretta, A study of abstract pronominal anaphora in Danish and Italian	

13:10-13:50	
Marta Recasens / Isabel Briz, Annotating Discourse Deixis in the Spanish and
Catalan AnCora Corpora	

13:50-15:20  
Lunch

15:20-16.00	
Tillmann Pross, Descriptions and Explanations of Temporal Variation
	
16:00-16:40 	
Fritz Hamm / Hans Kamp, The logic of German ung-Nominals	

16.40-17h      	
Coffee Break

17-18h		
Michael Hegarty, Louisiana State University

Saturday, March 29

9:30-10:30	
Jonathan Ginzburg, King's College

10:30-10:50 	
Coffee Break 

10:50-11:30	
Richard Zuber, Factives and intensionality	

11:30-12:10	
Francesca Delogu, Effects of intensionality in sentence and discourse comprehension

12:10-12:30    	
Coffee Break 

12:30-13:10    
David Gil, Language without Reference to Abstract Entities
	
13:10-13:50 	
Ivano Caponigro / Maria Polinsky, Clausal complementation via relativization and
world variables	

13:50-15:20	
Lunch

15:20-16.00  	
Catherine Léger / Patricia Rodrigues, Adjuncts that denote abstract objects: the
case of adverbial phrases with two types of adjectives

16:00-16:40	
Patricia Rodrigues / Catherine Léger, The direct and imaginative readings of
perception verbs	

16:40-17:00   	
Coffee Break

17:00-18:00    	
Graham Katz, Georgetown University

Registration is free and open to anyone who is interested in attending: 
to register, simply send an email to abstract.objects at upf.edu with your
name and affiliation.

For further information on the workshop and the workshop site, see
http://mutis.upf.es/glif/pub/abstract/






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