WHAT?
A small 3-day Formal Semantics Workshop in the West of Ireland
WHEN?
July 6 to 8, 2010. That's Tuesday to Thursday
(plus travel time).
WHERE?
Westport, Co. Mayo
(information from
Wikipedia,
Westport Tourism).
At the
Carlton Atlantic
Coast Hotel (by the quay).
For alternative accommodations
in Westport, click
here.
WHO?
Elisabet Engdahl,
Underspecification and language change
(handout)
Frank Veltman,
Making the right exceptions
(slides)
Ronnie Cann and Ruth Kempson,
Incrementality, dialogue and syntax
(slides)
Robin Cooper,
Frames and Formal Semantics
(paper)
Ede Zimmermann,
What it takes to be missing
(paper)
Lauri Karttunen and Annie Zaenen,
Natural Logic?
(slides),
PARC Bridge System
(slides,
demo)
Tim Fernando,
Situations in and out of relations
(slides,
related paper)
HOW?
I am afraid I have no funding to offer anyone.
I will try to make the meeting
respectable enough
for you to spend some of your own funding on it.
From Dublin:
Trains to Westport leave Dublin
Heuston station at 7:30, 12:30. 15:30 and 18:30, arriving
3 and a half hours later.
Return fare available
online
about 50 EUR.
(It can be more otherwise.)
The
748 bus
leaves Dublin airport roughly every 30 minutes, arriving
at Heuston station some 50 minutes
later. Fare is 6 EUR (one way).
In Westport a taxi from the train station to
Carlton Atlantic Coast Hotel
should cost another
6 EUR or so.
Further Links:
Aer Lingus,
RyanAir,
Irish Ferries,
Liverpool
Ferry,
AA Ireland (driving routes)
50 things to do (from the hotel)
Last updated: 12 July 2010