2:00 - 3:10
Emmon Bach & Wynn Chao (London)
“Natural Language Metaphysics Revisited ”
INFL/TCD Workshop on Natural Language Metaphysics
April 12-14, 2011
3rd floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
This workshop is organized around the visit of Emmon Bach and Wynn Chao to Trinity College Dublin, funded by the College's Visiting Professorships and Fellowships Benefaction Fund. The Irish Network in Formal Linguistics (INFL) has generously provided additional support for the workshop. The workshop owes its name also to a paper published by Bach some twenty five years ago. One aim of the workshop is to revisit themes in that paper, albeit from different perspectives and indeed disciplines.
Tuesday afternoon, April 12, Room 31263:25 - 4:35
Shalom Lappin (London)
“Combinatorial and Lexical Dimensions of Meaning”
4:50 - 6:00
Christopher Piñón (Lille)
“Themes, cumulativity, and event descriptions”
10:00 - 11:10
Emmon Bach & Wynn Chao
“Semantic Universals and Semantic Typology (background paper) ”
11:25 - 12:35
Lucas Champollion (Tübingen)
“The common core of distributivity, aspect and measurement”
2:00 - 3:10
Peter Simons (Dublin
“Beating the Bounds: Where does Semantics End and Metaphysics Begin?”
3:25 - 4:35
Tony Veale (Dublin)
“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)
10 am - 1pm
Free for talks/discussion depending on interest