The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor:
15th SEMANTICS FEST
Monday, March 14, 2014
Margaret Jacks Hall, Bldg. 460, Rm 126
SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS
1:00-1:30
Prerna Nadathur
Towards an explanatory account of conditional perfection
1:00-1:30
Andrés Gómez Emilsson, Michael C. Frank, Noah Goodman
Probabilistic integration of linguistic framing in ad-hoc pragmatic implicatures
1:30-2:00
Arnold Zwicky
Metatext in the comics
2:30
Break
2:45-3:15
Masoud Jasbi
Presupposed vs. At-issue Existence in Indefinites: Evidence from Differential Object Marking in Persian
3:15-3:45
Paul Kiparsky
The two plurals: A case for allosemy
3:45
Break
4:00-4:30
Dasha Popova
Affective uses of the 'Tot eshjo N' construction in Russian
4:30-5:00
Cleo Condoravdi, Lauri Karttunen, Annie Zaenen and Stanley Peters
Assessing and Interpreting Semantic Data from the WebAuthors
5:00
Social
