OASIS 2 - PROGRAM (pdf)
Venue: MSH Ange Guépin, 5 Allée Jacques Berque, 44021 Nantes
| Wednesday, October 16 | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Registration & coffee |
| 9:30 – 11:15 |
Class 1 for an interdisciplinary audience: David Adger (Queen Mary University): Why Linguists Think The Way They Do About Syntax: autonomy, computation and universality |
| 11:15 – 13:00 |
Class 2 for an interdisciplinary audience: Naama Friedmann (Tel Aviv University): Interdisciplinarity to the rescue: How linguistics can help people |
| 13:00 –14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 15:30 |
Sudha Arunachalam (New York University): Acquiring nouns that denote events in early childhood |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50 – 17:40 |
Despina Oikonomou (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Modal anchoring in covert modals: a dichotomy between mood and aspect in Greek Julie Goncharov (The Arctic University of Norway): Desires, belief revisions and polarity sensitivity Lightning talks |
| 17:40 – 17:50 | Break |
| 17:50 – 18:50 | Angelika Kratzer* (UMass, Amherst): Truthmakers for what we say |
| Thursday, October 17 | |
| 9:15 – 11:00 |
Class 3 for an interdisciplinary audience: Paul Egré (IJN – CNRS): Vagueness and approximation |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:35 |
Scott Grimm (University of Rochester) & Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): -Ing nominalizations: Implications for natural language Patricia Irwin (Swarthmore College) & Itamar Kastner (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Formalizing the syntax-lexical semantics interface: A type-theoretic approach |
| 12:35 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 |
Nicola Guarino (ISTC – CNR): Events and their context |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:20 – 17:10 |
Sandeep Prasada (City University of New York): Generating kind concepts Fabienne Martin (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Meg Grant (Simon Fraser University) & Florian Schäfer (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Non-culminating telic path descriptions Lightning talks |
| 17:10 – 18:10 | Poster session |
| 20:00 – | Dinner |
| Friday, October 18 | |
| 9:45 – 10:45 |
Brent Strickland (IJN – CNRS): Core cognition and learnability: A possible explanation for cross-linguistic similarities |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Panel on interdisciplinary communication |
| 12:30 – 14:15 | Lunch |
| 14:15 – 15:35 |
Marcin Wagiel* (Masaryk University Brno): In search of building blocks of nominal denotations Pavel Caha* (Masaryk University Brno) & Marcin Wagiel (Masaryk University Brno): Universal semantic features and the typology of numerals |
| 15:35 – 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 –17:00 | Rose-Marie Déchaine (University of British Columbia): TBA |
*Angelika Kratzer, Marcin Wagiel and Pavel Caha will be participating via video conference.
Lightning talks (for posters):