Organizers: Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer
Short Description
Compositionality has been a key methodological theme in natural language semantics. Recently, a number of innovative systems for combinatorial semantics have been proposed which seem not to obey compositionality at first sight. Such systems are based on unification, underspecification, linear logic, categorial grammar, variable free semantics, extensions of Montague Grammar, dynamic semantics, and Tree Adjoining Grammar, to name the most prominent research areas. The motivation behind these systems is often computational, but the mechanisms they employ also provide new insights and analytical alternatives for outstanding problems in the combinatorial semantics of natural languages. These include scope ambiguities, multiple exponents of semantic operators, cohesion, ellipsis, coordination, and modifier attachment ambiguities.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers whose interests lie in empirical issues or logic. We wish to invite papers discussing linguistic data which pose a challenge to compositionality as well as papers presenting new mechanisms for defining a compositional semantics which can address well-known challenges in innovative ways.
More details about the workshop can be found in the Call for Papers.
Monday | ||
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17:00 - 17:30 | F. Richter and M. Sailer (Tübingen and Göttingen) | Introduction to the workshop |
17:30 - 18:30 | W. Hodges (London) (invited speaker) | The Interplay of Fact and Theory in Separating Syntax from Meaning |
Tuesday | ||
17:00 - 17:45 | M. Kaneko (Okayama) | Compositional Semantics of an Ambiguity Associated with two Types of Focus Constructions in French and in Japanese |
17:45 - 18:30 | D. Wedgwood (Edinburgh) | The Normality of 'Metalinguistic' Foci: a Challenge to Strict Compositionality |
Wednesday | ||
17:00 - 17:45 | R. Chaves (Lisbon) | Underspecificaton and NP Coordination in Constraint-based Grammar |
17:45 - 18:30 | O. Bonami, D. Godard (Paris) | Evaluative Adverbs and Underspecified Semantic Representations |
Thursday | ||
17:00 - 17:45 | S. Ikehara, M. Tokuhisa, J. Murakami, M. Saraki (Tokyo) | Development of Semantic Pattern Dictionary for Non-linear Structures of Complex and Compound Sentences |
17:45 - 18:30 | S. Yatabe, S. Hayakawa (Tokyo) | A Linearization-based Theory of Non-constituent Focus |
Friday | ||
17:00 - 17:45 | M. Egg (Groningen) | Against Opacity |
17:45 - 18:30 | C. Ebert (Bielefeld), C. Endriss (Potsdam), H.-M. Gärtner (Berlin) | German Integrated Verb Second Clauses, Relative Clauses, and Information Structure |
Proceedings volume in three file formats: pdf / ps / ps-2up
Programme Committee:
We are grateful to the programme committee and our additional reviewer,
Jakub Fast, for their help and the detailed
comments they provided.
Authors preparing the final versions for the proceedings (firm deadline: May 18th) are requested to follow the instructions for authors. Note that all participants of the workshop must register to the summer school. The deadline for early registration is May 1st.
f.richter@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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