Preliminary Programme

9th Szklarska Poreba Workshop

On the Roots of Pragmasemantics

(Special Theme: Complexity and Language)

Day 1: February 21, Thursday

 

17.30-18.15

Invited Speaker
László Kálmán

 Tba

 

 

18.15-18.30

Break

 

Session 1

18.30-19.00

Oshri Weiss

Pragmatic Analysis of the Asian Disease Problem

19.00-19.30

Anton Benz

Implicatures and Preferential Games

 

 

19.30-20.30

Dinner Break

 

Session 2

20.30-21.00

Rick Nouwen

Quantifiers from Space

21.00-21.30 Anna Pilatova Truth About the Past

 

Day 2: February 22, Friday

 

Session 3

 

 

9.30-10.00

Mathias Irmer

Building Bridges between Events. Bridging Reference to Eventuality

 

 

10.00-17.00

Ski Break

 

 

 

17.00-17.45

Invited Speaker
Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

Linguistic Rules from a Psycholinguistic Perspective

17.45-18.00

Break

 

Session 4

 

 

18.00-18.30

Jakub Szymanik

A Remark on Collective Quantification

 

 

19.00-20.00

Dinner Break

 

Session 5

 

 

20.00-20.30

Hans-Christian Schmitz

A Closer Look at the Head-Argument Asymmetry

20.30-21.00

Katja Jasinskaja

Temporal Parallelism in Contrastive Sentences

 

 Day 3: February 23, Saturday

 

Session 6

9.30-10.00

Gregory M. Kobele

Hypothetical Reasoning and Association with Focus

 

 

10.00-17.00

Ski Break

 

 

 

17.00-17.45

Invited Speaker
Fritz Hamm

Representations of and Inferences with German ung-Nominals

17.45-18.00

Break

 

Session 7

18.00-18.30

Emmanuel Chemla

Can We Kill the King of France?

 

 

18.30-19.30

Dinner Break

 

Session 8

 

 

19.30-20.30

Henk Zeevat

The Mirror Neuron Theory of Language Understanding

Comments:
Reinhard Blutner

A Note on the Simulationist Framework and Motor Theories of Perception

  

Day 4: February 24, Sunday

 

Session 9

9.00-9.30

Jan Piotrowski

Prescriptivity and the Evolutionary Complexity of Normative Discourse

9.30-10.00

Ewa Rudnicka

Polish Bare NPs: a Flexible Interpretation Approach

 

 

10.00-17.00

Ski Break

 

Session 10

 

 

17.15-17.45

Maya Bangerter

The German Genitive Adjunct in a Glue Semantic Approach

 

 

 

17.45-18.00

Break

 

 

Session 11

 

 

18.00-18.30

Jakub Dotlacil and Marieke Schouwstra

Reciprocals in Space

18.30-19.00

Maarika Traat

Looking for ‘Words’ and ‘Phrases’ in the DNA

 

 

 

20.00

Dinner Party

 

 

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