Conference Programme
6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models
19-21 November 2010, Riga, Latvia.
University of Latvia, Raina boulevard 19
Program
FRIDAY
November 19
9:15-10:00 Registration (Aula Magna)
10:00-10:30 Opening (Aula Magna)
10.30-11.30
Public Opening Keynote Lecture
Formal semantics and pragmatics: Origins, issues, impact.
Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
11 30 – 12 30 Lunch
Parallel Sessions
12 30 -14 30
Room 1
Chair: Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale University, USA)
Jeroen Groenendijk (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands), Floris Roelofsen (Department of Linguistics, University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Radical inquisitive semantics
Kristina Liefke (Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science,Tilburg
University, The Netherlands)
Single-Type Semantics
Matthias Gerner (Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics, City
University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
Compositionality Proofs for Attitudinal Speech Acts
Room 6
Chair: Linda Apse (CCSS, University of Latvia)
Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Conditionals as Illocutionary Operators
Gunnar Björnsson (Linköping University / University of Gothenburg, Sweden),
Alexander Almér (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
The pragmatics of insensitive assessments
Anna Chernilovskaya (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University,
The Netherlands)
Exclamatives have a question semantics!
14.30-14.45 Coffee Break
14.45-16.45
Room 1
Chair: Michael Glanzberg (University of California at Davis, USA)
Marta Abrusan (University of Oxford, UK)
Triggering Verbal Presuppositions
Elizaveta Bylinina (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
‘Gradable individuals’ and the complexity of scale structure
Olga Kagan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
A Scalar Approach to Slavic Verbal Prefixes
Room 6
Chair: Ken Turner (University of Brighton, UK)
Itamar Francez (University of Chicago, USA)
Implicit content and chimeric conditionals
Nicholas Allott (Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at University of
Oslo, Norway),
Hiroyuki Uchida (Human level intelligence laboratory at Rensslaer Polytechnic
Institute, USA)
Natural Language Indicative Conditionals Are Classical
16.45-17.15 Coffee Break
17 15 -19 15
Room 1
Chair: Martin Stokhof (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Michael Hegarty (Louisiana State University, USA)
Attitudes, Anaphora and Neg-Raising in Modalized Dynamic Semantics
Mailin Antomo (Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Germany)
Anaphoric adverbials
Room 6
Chair: Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
Wiebke Petersen und Tanja Osswald (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
A Formal Interpretation of Frame Composition
Misha Knyazev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
Whether that-clauses can denote events
Lucas Champollion (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany).
Quantification in event semantics
SATURDAY
20.11.2010
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
PLENARY SESSIONS
Chair: Michael Glanzberg (University of California at Davis, USA)
9 00-10 00
Philippe Schlenker (Institute Jean-Nicod, France / New York University, USA)
The Semantics of Pronouns: Insights from Sign Language
10 00 – 11 00
Anna Szabolcsi (New York University, USA)
Certain Verbs Are Syntactically Explicit Quantifiers
11 00 -12 00
Nirit Kadmon and Aldo Sevi (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, Israel)
Without ‘Focus’
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Chair: Ken Turner (University of Brighton, UK)
13.00-14.00
Martin Stokhof (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Universiteit
van Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Abstractions and Idealisations: The Construction of Modern Linguistics
14.00-15.00
Craige Roberts (Ohio State University, USA)
only: Alternatives, Focus Sensitivity, and Projective Meaning
15.00-16.00
Jeff Pelletier (Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Alberta, Canada)
Some More Thoughts on the Semantics and Ontology of Mass and Count Nouns
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
Chair: Anna Szabolcsi (New York University, USA)
16.30-17.30
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universität & ZAS Berlin, Germany) and Ariel
Cohen (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Superlative Quantifiers as Meta-Speech Acts.
20 30 Conference dinner
SUNDAY
21.11.2010
All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building
PLENARY SESSIONS
Chair: Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
9 00 – 10 00
Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) & Anthony
S. Gillies (Rutgers University, USA)
Hedging your ifs and vice versa (NEW title)
10.00-11.00
Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz, Germany)
On Modal Superlatives
11 00 – 12 00
Paul Dekker (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Jigsaw Semantics, or: Dynamic Semantics Put Together Again.
12.00-13.00 Lunch
Chair: Jeff Pelletier (University of Alberta, Canada)
13 00 – 14 00
Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University/Leiden University)
Counting, measuring and the semantics of classifiers
14 00 – 15 00
Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Hradec Kralove,
Czech Republic)
Past & Future of Meaning
15 00 – 15 30 Coffee break
Chair: Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
15 30 – 16 30
Fred Landman (University of Tel Aviv, Israel)
Count nouns - Mass nouns
Neat nouns - Mess nouns (NEW title)
16 30 – 17 30
Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Yale University, USA)
Epistemic comparativism (joint work with Jonathan Schaffer)
Conference Closing Keynote
17 30 – 18 30
Michael Glanzberg (University of California at Davis, USA)
Concepts, meaning, and the lexicon: Philosophy of language meets the syntax-lexical
semantics interface. (NEW title)