4th Workshop on Discourse Structure
Open Workshop - All Are Invited
Proceedings now available
Dates and Locations
March 3-5, 2006
Friday, March 3: UTC 4.132
Saturday, March 4: UTC 4.102/HRH 3.102A
Sunday, March 5: HRH 3.102A
Invited Speakers
Nicholas Asher, UT Austin
Jason Baldridge, UT Austin
Chris Barker, University of California San Diego
Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Patrick Caudal, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Paris
Lisa Green, UT Austin
Hans Kamp, IMS Stuttgart Univ.
Knud Lambrecht, UT Austin
Chiyo Nishida, UT Austin
Paul Portner, Georgetown University
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Craige Roberts, Ohio State University
Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum, Rice University
Carlota Smith, UT Austin
Steve Wechsler, UT Austin
Program
Friday, March 3 - UTC 4.132
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8:45
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Opening remarks, Tony Woodbury, chair |
9:00 | Nicholas Asher (UT Austin), Problems with the Right Frontier Constraint in Discourse Structure
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10:00 |
Craige Roberts (Ohio State), 'Only' and Conventional Presupposition
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- LUNCH -
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1:45 |
Lisa Green (UT Austin), Prison work songs and ex-slave narratives
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2:45 |
Patrick Caudal (LLF, Paris), Aspectual classes of tenses and the semantics/pragmatics interface - a SDRT investigation
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4:00 |
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst), Relativizing in Space and Time
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Saturday, March 4 (before lunch)- UTC 4.102 |
9:00 |
Chris Barker (UCSD), Grammaticized metadiscourse |
10:00 |
Chiyo Nishida (UT Austin), Expressing Subjectivity: A Case Study on the Spanish Clitic 'se' and the Japanese Auxiliary Verb 'shimau' |
11:15 |
Carlota Smith (UT Austin), Discourse Modes across languages
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- LUNCH -
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Saturday, March 4 (after lunch) - HRH 3.102A
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1:45 |
Knud Lambrecht (UT Austin) and Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum (Rice), Apo koinou and Intrusion. Toward a syntactic-pragmatic typology of amalgam constructions in spoken English.
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Steve Wechsler (UT Austin), Having a Topic, Wanting a Focus
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| 4:00 |
Ellen Prince (UPenn), What a Centering Theory account of topichood buys us
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Sunday, March 5 - HRH 3.102A
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9:00 |
Hans Kamp (Univ Stuttgart), TBA
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10:00 |
Paul Portner (Georgetown U), The nature of imperative force in imperative subtypes
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11:15 |
Jason Baldridge (UT Austin), Strategies and Opportunities for Computational Discourse Structure Analysis
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12:15 |
Informal wrap-up discussion
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