28.1723, Confs: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/UK

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Subject: 28.1723, Confs: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/UK

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Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:19:54
From: Hannah Gibson [hg6 at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: 1st Dynamic Syntax Conference

1st Dynamic Syntax Conference 
Short Title: DS1 

Date: 19-Apr-2017 - 20-Apr-2017 
Location: SOAS, London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Hannah Gibson 
Contact Email: hg6 at soas.ac.uk 

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

Meeting Description: 

Whilst there is broad consensus that humans process linguistic input in real
time, the dynamics of this process are often not reflected in most formal
accounts of linguistic knowledge. Dynamic Syntax (DS; Cann et al. 2005,
Kempson et al. 2001, 2011) is a grammar formalism that aims to capture the
parsing/production process in real-time. Under the Dynamic Syntax approach,
linguistic knowledge is considered to be the ability to parse spoken language
in context, whilst syntax is the constraint-based way in which representations
of context can be built up from words encountered in a string.

We are pleased to announce that the first Dynamic Syntax conference will take
place at SOAS University of London on 19-20 April 2017. The meeting will bring
together those using DS in their research, as well as those who are interested
in issues that lie at the heart of the theoretical approach.

The conference will also include a DS ‘master class’ providing an introduction
to the framework, as well as the tools and mechanisms of analysis. 

We are also delighted to announce that Professor Ruth Kempson will deliver the
keynote address at the conference.

The conference is free to attend. However, participants are asked to email
Hannah Gibson (hg6 at soas.ac.uk) to register their attendance.

Programme:

Day 1 (19 April 2017) - Room S209

10:00-11:00:
DS tutorial

11:00-11:30: Break

11:30-12:00:
Ronnie Cann
Construing person pronouns without features

12:00-12:30: 
Darryl Turner
Relative clauses as appositional nominal

12:30-13:00: 
Andriana Koumbarou
Focusing Hindi and the dynamics of left to right parsing in context

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-15:00: 
Hannah Gibson & Lutz Marten
Underspecification and procedural meaning: Lexical NPs as anaphora

15:00-15:30: 
Yan Jiang
Chinese Anaphora: Lexical Encoding, Distributive Alternation and Reference
Tracking

15:30-16:00: 
Xiaolong Yang
A dynamic account of verb copying cleft construction in Chinese

16:00-16:45: Break (including poster presentation by Stephen Jones)

16:45-17:45:
Ruth Kempson
Dynamic Syntax on the Move

18:30: Dinner (Location TBC)

Day 2 (20 April 2017) - Room S209

10:00-10:30: 
James Reid
Parsing-modulated antecedent-selection in proposition-controlled free adjuncts

10:30-11:00: 
Daniel Sax
A DS solution to a puzzle in Polish: TO introducing LINKed structures

11:00-11:30: 
Miriam Bouzouita & Hannah Gibson
Constraints on Structural Underspecification: Compound tenses in Old Spanish
and East African Bantu

11:30-12:00: Break

12:00-12:30:
Riham Abudonia
Passive strategies and argument structure in Luganda: a dynamic syntax account

12:30-13:00: 
Nadia Christopher
Kazakh Differential Object Marking – the Dynamic Syntax Approach

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-15:00: 
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh & Matt Purver
Incremental Distributional Semantics for Dynamic Syntax

15:00-15:30: 
Christine Howes & Arash Eshghi
Formalising backchannel relevance spaces

15:30-16:00: 
Jieun Kiaer and Naya Choi
Analysing two-year-old's dialogue corpus in DS

16:00-16:30: Break

16:30-17:00: 
Peter Edelsten
An incremental approach to parsing information structure

17:00-17:30: 
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
Modification in Dynamic Syntax

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