Amsterdam Colloquium 2005

Amsterdam Colloquium 2005: Programme

Amsterdam Colloquium 2005

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Preliminary program (printer version):

Monday, December 19^th

09.00 -- 10.00	Registration

10.00 -- 11.00	Manfred Krifka More on approximative number words


11.15 – 11.45	Ido Ben-Zvi Dynamic Situations: Accounting for Dowty's Inertia Notion Using Dynamic Semantics	Julie Hunter & Nicholas Asher A Presuppositional Account of Indexicals

11.45 – 12.15	Andreas Haida Dynamic Wh-Terms	Luisa Martí Donald Duck is back, and he speaks Spanish

12.15 – 12.45	Philippe Schlenker Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection	Cécile Meier The Compositional Semantics for locatives revisited


14.00 – 14.30	Scott Grimm Agency and Case: A lattice-based framework	Richard Breheny Exhaustivity, Homogeneity and Definiteness

14.30 – 15.00	Antonia Rothmayr The helping-effect of dative case	Sivan Sabato & Yoad Winter Against Partitioned Readings of Reciprocals


15.30 -- 16.00	Reut Tsarfaty Connecting Causative Constructions and Aspectual meanings: A Case Study from Semitic Derivational Morphology	Magdalena Schwager Exhaustive Imperatives

16.00 – 16.30	Christopher Piñón Determiners in aspectual composition	Ventsislav Zhechev & Sveta Krasikova Scalar Use of 'Only' in Conditionals


17.00 -- 18.00	Lawrence S. Moss Natural Language, Natural Logic and Natural Deduction

Tuesday, December 20^th

09.00 -- 10.00	Gilad Ben Avid & Nissim Francez Proof-theoretic semantics for a syllogistic fragment


10.00 – 10.30	Friederike Moltmann Comparatives without Degrees: A New Approach	Michael Franke How and how not to employ discourse relations to account for pseudo-imperatives


11.00 – 11.30	Rick Nouwen Monotone Amazement	Tatjana Scheffler Syntax and Semantics of Causal denn in German
	Rick Nouwen Monotone Amazement
11.30 – 12.00	Doris Penka 'Almost': A test?	Yurie Hara Contrastives and Gricean Principle
	Doris Penka 'Almost': A test?	Yurie Hara Contrastives and Gricean Principle
12.00 – 12.30	Dag Westerståhl & Stanley Peters Semantics for Possessive Determiners	Torgrim Solstad Word Meaning, Unification and Sentence-Internal Pragmatics


	Workshop on Language and Learning
14.00 – 15.30	James Cussens Principles and Implementation of Inductive Parsing Jacqueline van Kampen Locality and the order of acquisition steps


16.00 – 17.30	Makoto Kanazawa Semantics-Driven Learning of Lexicalized Grammars Claire Nedellec Semantics learning from corpora and background knowledge


	Beth Evening Lecture
20.00 -- 21.00	Hannes Leitgeb The Logical Structure of Cognition. Lessons from Carnap's Logical Structure of the World

Wednesday, December 21^st

09.00 -- 10.00	Sigrid Beck A Second Time and Again
	Sigrid Beck A Second Time and Again

10.00 – 10.30	Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop & Monique Lamers Asymmetries in language use reveal asymmetries in the grammar	Tim Fernando Comic relief for anankastic conditionals
		Tim Fernando Comic relief for anankastic conditionals

11.00 – 11.30	Daniel Hardt Inference, Ellipsis and Deaccenting	Theo M.V. Janssen IF logic as a strategic game
	Daniel Hardt Inference, Ellipsis and Deaccenting	Theo M.V. Janssen IF logic as a strategic game
11.30 – 12.00	Jacques Jayez & Lucia Tovena When `Widening' is too Narrow	Chris Fox & Shalom Lappin Achieving Expressive Completeness and Computational Efficiency with Underspecified Scope Representations

12.00 – 12.30	Mats Rooth Scope Disambiguation by Ellipsis and Focus without Scope Economy	Reinhard Muskens Synonymy, Common Knowledge, and the Social Construction of Meaning


	Workshop on Semantic Universals
14.00 – 15.30	Johan van der Auwera Prohibitives: why most languages are not like Dutch David Gil Association: A Cross-Linguisic Experiment


16.00 – 17.30	Helen de Hoop Case and strength Ed Keenan How much logic is built into natural language?