Preliminary Programme

10th Szklarska Poreba Workshop

On the Roots of Pragmasemantics

(Special Theme: Learning)

Day 1: March 12, Thursday

 

17.20-17.30 Nina Gierasimczuk Welcome

17.30-18.15

Invited Speaker
Damir Ćavar & Malgorzata E. Ćavar

On the induction of linguistic categories and learning grammars

 

 

18.15-18.30

Break

 

Session 1

18.30-19.00

Tomasz Fojt & Przemyslaw Żywiczyński

Valuation in the discourse of spoken interaction. A case of axiological polisemy

19.00-19.30

Christina Unger

A computational view on the semantics of movement dependencies

 

 

19.30-20.30

Dinner Break

 

Session 2

20.30-21.00

Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

Grammatical gender and the semantic description of objects: a study on Polish and Italian

 

Day 2: March 13, Friday

 

Session 3

 

 

9.00-9.30

Marieke Schouwstra

Evolutionary adverbs in L2 acquisition

9.30-10.00 Magdalena Schwager

What qualities should you look for? - Attitudes de qualitate

 

 

10.00-17.00

Ski Break

 

 

 

17.00-17.45

Invited Speaker
Paul Boersma

Unidirectional optimization of comprehension can achieve bidirectional optimality

17.45-18.00

Break

 

Session 4

 

 

18.00-18.30

Peter Beim Graben et al.

Modeling Processing Gradiences through Harmonic Minimalist Grammars

18.30-19.00 Laszlo Kalman An analogy machine

 

 

 

19.00-20.00

Dinner Break

 

Session 5

 

 

20.00-20.30

Ewa Rudnicka

Step by step approach to type shifting. Evidence from Polish

20.30-21.00

Anna Kozyra Geminates in Slavonic Languages

 

 Day 3: March 14, Saturday

 

Session 6

9.00-9.30

Federico Sangati

Learning heads in syntactic structure

9.30-10.00 Henk Zeevat Bayesian Interpretation and Learning

 

 

10.00-17.00

Ski Break

 

 

 

17.00-17.45

Invited Speaker
Wojciech Buszkowski & Maciej Kandulski

Types and tree structures with application to learning

17.45-18.00

Break

 

Session 7

18.00-18.30

Nina Gierasimczuk

On the logic of inductive inference

18.30-19.00

Nina Gierasimczuk, Lena Kurzen & Fernando Velasquez-Quesada

Towards a game-theoretical and logical approach to learning

 

 

19.00-20.00

Dinner Break

 

Session 8

 

 

20.00-20.30

Andreas Witzel & YunQi Xue

Information Structures and Beliefs in Public Goods Games

  

Day 4: March 15, Sunday

 

Session 9

9.00-9.30

Maria Spychalska

Active logical competence of reasoning with the quantifier “most” - scalar and existential implicatures

9.30-10.00

Jakub Szymanik

How complex is language?

 

 

10.00-17.00

Ski Break

 

Session 10

 

 

17.00-17.45

Invited Speaker
Marcus Kracht

Gnosis

 

 

 

17.45-18.00

Break

 

 

Session 11

 

 

18.00-18.30

Hans-Martin Gaertner & Beata Gyuris

Modulating Question Acts: The Case of Hungarian Particle "Vajon"

18.30-19.00

Anton Benz

Ambiguities and Relevance Implicatures

19.00-19.15 Reinhard Blutner Hermann Lotze and his Philosophy of Mind
19.15-19.30 Lotze committee Lotze Prize Ceremony

 

 

 

20.00

Dinner Party

 

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