Texas Linguistic Society Conference to meet Nov. 13-15

Texas Linguistics Society XII & 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith

Time: November 13-15 2009
Venue: Thompson Conference Center 1.126 & 2.122 (Nov. 13), Calhoun 100 (Nov. 14 & 15) of The University of Texas at Austin.

Texas Linguistics Society XII is a graduate-student run conference in linguistics to be held over November 13-15, 2009. The meeting's general session covers all areas of linguistic interest. This year TLS XII will also hold a parallel session that has as its theme "Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics Based on Naturally Occurring Data, Elicitation, and Experimentation."

Immediately following TLS XII, the 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith will be held at the same venue. Professor Smith was on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics from 1969 until her death in May 2007. The workshop will focus on two areas of research in which Professor Smith did much pioneering work: the semantics of temporal location, tense, and aspect, and research into modes of discourse. The workshop has been organized by Professor Jason Baldridge (Linguistics, UT Austin) and is wholly supported by a grant from the New York Community Trust.

We feature the following invited speakers:

Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin)
Colin Bannard (University of Texas at Austin)
Cleo Condoravdi (PARC/Stanford University)
Laurence R. Horn (Yale University)
Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)
Lauri Karttunen (PARC/Stanford University)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
Mats Rooth (Cornell University)
Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University)
Annie Zaenen (PARC)

For more information, please visit the event website at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/tls2009