The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor:
14th SEMANTICS FEST
Monday, March 18, 2013
Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460, Rm 126
SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS
1:00-1:30
Lelia Glass
A pragmatic account of English implicit objects
1:30-2:00
Judy Kroo
Adverbial mimetics and lexical aspect
2:00-2:30
Arnold Zwicky
In a syntactic quandary
2:30
Break
2:45-3:15
James Collins
Incorporation in Discourse
3:15-3:45
Livia Polanyi & Martin van den Berg
Discourse markers and the structure of Discourse
3:45-4:15
Chigusa Kurumada, Meredith Brown (Rochester), and Michael K. Tanenhaus (Rochester)
Contextual inferences in comprehension and acquisition of contrastive prosody
4:15
Break
4:30-5:00
Stanley Peters & Dag Westerstahl
Why expanded possessives are not partitives
5:00-5:30
James Collins, Daria Popova, Ivan Sag, & Tom Wasow
The inquisitive potential of appositives and sluicing
