30.3781, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Neuroling, Philosophy of Language, Semantics/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3781. Tue Oct 08 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3781, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Neuroling, Philosophy of Language, Semantics/France

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 04:46:16
From: Orin Percus [orin.percus at univ-nantes.fr]
Subject: OASIS 2

OASIS 2 

Date: 16-Oct-2019 - 18-Oct-2019 
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact: Orin Percus 
Contact Email: oasis2-info at services.cnrs.fr 
Meeting URL: http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis2 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 2 (OASIS 2) will take
place in Nantes, France, on October 16-18, 2019.  This is the second in a
series of interdisciplinary conferences on formal semantic ontology organized
by the CNRS-funded international research network OASIS. 

Invited speakers:

Sudha Arunachalam (New York University)
Rose-Marie Déchaine (University of British Columbia)
Nicola Guarino (ISTC - CNR)
Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst)
Brent Strickland (IJN - CNRS)

Description:

The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation and
cross-fertilization across different disciplines, using ontological questions
as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these:

1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about
the world?
2. How do these building blocks get combined? 
3. How do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the
first two questions?

We welcome contributions from semanticists as well as from researchers in
domains of cognition that interface with semantics.  We would like the OASIS
conferences to help foster new perspectives and to provide a forum around
which a new research community can coalesce.

The first installment of the series, OASIS 1 (Paris, November 2018) brought
together researchers from formal semantics, natural language syntax,
philosophy, psychology/psycholinguistics, language development,
neuroscience/neurolinguistics, and computational linguistics.  Some aspects of
the exchanges at OASIS 1 are summarized on the OASIS 1 site
(http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis1) and on Gillian Ramchand’s blog
(https://gillianramchand.blog/2018/11/ ).  The range of talks at OASIS 1 gives
an indication of the kinds of topics that we welcome at OASIS conferences. 
There were, for instance, talks about flexible aspects of linguistic meaning,
about categorization in verbal vs. nonverbal populations, about the
acquisition of counterfactuality and its linguistic expression, and about the
format of syntactic structure from an embodied cognition perspective.  The
OASIS credo at http://oasis.cnrs.fr/credo lists a variety of topics relevant
to the broad questions that interest us.

Program:

Oasis 2

Venue: MSH Ange Guépin, 5 Allée Jacques Berque, 44021 Nantes

Wednesday, October 16

9:00 – 9:30:
Registration & coffee

9:30 – 11:15:
Class 1 for an interdisciplinary audience:

David Adger (Queen Mary University): Why Linguists Think The Way They Do About
Syntax: autonomy, computation and universality 

11:15 – 13:00:
Class 2 for an interdisciplinary audience:

Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University): Interdisciplinarity to the rescue: How
linguistics can help people

13:00 –14:30: Lunch

14:30 – 15:30:
Sudha Arunachalam (New York University): Acquiring nouns that denote events in
early childhood

15:30 – 15:50: Coffee Break

15:50 – 17:40:
Despina Oikonomou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Modal anchoring in covert
modals: a dichotomy between mood and aspect in Greek

Julie Goncharov (The Arctic University of Norway): Desires, belief revisions
and polarity sensitivity

Lightning talks

17:40 – 17:50: Break

17:50 – 18:50: 
Angelika Kratzer* (UMass, Amherst): Truthmakers for what we say

Thursday, October 17

9:15 – 11:00:
Class 3 for an interdisciplinary audience:

Paul Egré (IJN – CNRS): Vagueness and approximation

11:00 – 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:35:
Scott Grimm (University of Rochester) & Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu
Fabra): -Ing nominalizations: Implications for natural language

Patricia Irwin (Swarthmore College) & Itamar Kastner (Humboldt Universität zu
Berlin): Formalizing the syntax-lexical semantics interface: A type-theoretic
approach

12:35 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:00:
Nicola Guarino (ISTC – CNR): Events and their context

15:00 – 15:20: Coffee Break

15:20 – 17:10:
Sandeep Prasada (City University of New York): Generating kind concepts

Fabienne Martin (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Meg Grant (Simon Fraser
University) & Florian Schäfer (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin):
Non-culminating telic path descriptions

Lightning talks

17:10 – 18:10: Poster session

20:00: Dinner

Friday, October 18

9:45 – 10:45:
Brent Strickland (IJN – CNRS): Core cognition and learnability: A possible
explanation for cross-linguistic similarities

10:45 – 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30: 
Panel on interdisciplinary communication

12:30 – 14:15: Lunch

14:15 – 15:35: 
Marcin Wagiel* (Masaryk University Brno): In search of building blocks of
nominal denotations

Pavel Caha* (Masaryk University Brno) & Marcin Wagiel (Masaryk University
Brno): Universal semantic features and the typology of numerals

15 :35 – 16 :00: Break

16:00 –17:00: Rose-Marie Déchaine (University of British Columbia): TBA

*Angelika Kratzer, Marcin Wagiel and Pavel Caha will be participating via
video conference.

Posters:

1. Lisa Brunetti (Université Paris 7), Lucia Tovena (Université Paris 7) &
Hiyon Yoo (Université Paris 7): About the prosody of a non-canonical reason
question

2. Marta Donazzan (Université de Nantes), Clémentine Raffy (Universität zu
Köln) & Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln): The dynamics of enabling.
An investigation on French “laisser” causatives

3. Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Université Paris 7): Two types of non partitive
proportional MOST

4. Julie Goncharov (The Arctic University of Norway) & Lavi Wolf (Ben-Gurion
University of Negev): ''The world is not enough”: the role of time in double
NPI constructions involving epistemic accessibility relations

5. Binene Horchani (Université d’Orléans) & François Nemo (Université
d’Orléans): Morphemic contribution to modal frames: theory and illustration

6. Itamar Kastner (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) & Fabienne Martin (Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin): Pieces of meaning in unexpected places: wug-ir and
wug-er nonce verbs receive a different default semantics in French

7. Daria Seres (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) & Olga Borik (Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia): The interpretation of bare nominals in
languages without articles: the case of Russian

8. Evripidis Tsiakmakis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Greek plural mass
nouns revisited

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