INFL/TCD Workshop on Natural Language Metaphysics

3rd floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
April 12-14, 2011

Tuesday afternoon, April 12, Room 3126
2:00 - 3:10 Emmon Bach & Wynn Chao (London)
Natural Language Metaphysics Revisited
3:25 - 4:35 Shalom Lappin (London)
Combinatorial and Lexical Dimensions of Meaning
4:50 - 6:00 Christopher Piñón (Lille)
Themes, cumulativity, and event descriptions
Wednesday morning, April 13, Room 3071 Wednesday afternoon, April 13, Room 3126
10:00 - 11:10 Emmon Bach & Wynn Chao 2:00 - 3:10 Peter Simons (Dublin)
Semantic Universals and Semantic Typology (background paper) Beating the Bounds: Where does Semantics End and Metaphysics Begin?
11:25 - 12:35 Lucas Champollion (Tübingen) 3:25 - 4:35 Tony Veale (Dublin)
The common core of distributivity, aspect and measurement (abstract) Creativity versus Conservativity in Humorous Epithets: An Analysis of Figurative XYZ Constructions on the Web (abstract, Afflatus)
4:50 - 6:00 Tim Fernando (Dublin)
From NLM to denotations for computation (abstract)

Thursday 10 am - 1pm, Apr 14, Room 3126
Free for talks/discussion depending on interest

Support from IRCHSS/AHRC (through INFL) is gratefully acknowledged.

Queries to Tim.Fernando at tcd.ie
Last updated April 9, 2011