MODIFICATION: 18/02/07: conférences de Carl Pollard ET DE DANA COHEN

[jlaroui at UNIV-PARIS8.FR]

Ci-dessous l'annonce corrigée des conférences de lundi 18 février à
l'université Paris VIII :

L'UMR 7023 a le plaisir de vous convier, dans le cadre des séances de son
séminaire,

le lundi 18 février
10h00-13h00, Université Paris VIII, 2, rue de la liberté, 93200
Saint-Denis (métro Saint-Denis Université, ligne 13), bâtiment D, salle D
143,

aux conférences suivantes :

10h00-11h30
Carl Pollard (Ohio State University)
"A Parallel Architecture for the Syntax-Semantics Interface"
Résumé :
In the `syntactocentric' EST/GB model of the 1970's and 1980's, it was
assumed that SS `feeds' LF; in somewhat more current parlance, overt
syntax precedes Spell-Out and the covert component follows it. By
contrast, in constraint-based architectures, such as LFG (Bresnan and and
Kaplan 1982), HPSG (Pollard and Sag 1987, 1994), and Representational
Modularity (Jackendoff 1997), there is no notion of `feeding'; instead
syntax and semantics (inter alia) are parallel, mutually constrained
structures.
The two approaches are hard to compare because the constraint-based
architectures lack any notion of derivation. However, what seems to have
been overlooked by almost everyone (except Lecomte and Retor'e 2002), is
that it is entirely possible to embrace parallelism without rejecting
derivationality. In this talk I will give a sketch of
CONVERGENT GRAMMAR, a grammar framework in which syntactic derivations
(roughly, overt syntax) and semantic derivations (roughly, covert
computations) proceed in parallel `all the way down', i.e. even at the
level of the lexical entries. From a present-day perspective, this may
look like phase theory carried to its logical extreme, but in reality it
is an updated version of the `rule-to-rule' approach employed in the
Extended Montague Grammar paradigm (e.g. Bach and Partee 1980).

11H30-13h00:
Dana Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) :
"Intensive Reflexives in English and Hebrew"
Résumé:
Most analyses of the English intensive reflexive assume isomorphism,
correlating structural position with interpretation. In this talk, I
present a unified account of the IR as focus particles, establishing a
single core meaning (namely comparison), which systematically interacts
with scope and contextual factors to produce a range of readings. Despite
the morpho-syntactic differences between IRs in English and Hebrew, the
proposed analysis will be shown to account for the function of IRs in both
languages alike.







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