The 2nd Annual UConn Logic Group Workshop
The 2nd Annual UConn Logic Group Workshop (“Going Heim”) will honor Irene Heim and the lasting impact of her 1982 UMass dissertation, “The semantics of definite and indefinite noun phrases.” The event will take place May 2 & 3, 2015 in Oak Hall, Room 101. Find the program of the workshop below.
The event is free and open to the public. However, anyone who plans to attend should register as soon as possible by sending an email to:
magdalena.kaufmann@uconn.edu
In your email please indicate:
+Days of attendance
+Interest in attending a conference dinner on Saturday night
Program
Saturday, May 2
9-10:30 Barbara PARTEE (UMass)
Irene Heim in the History of Formal Semantics (Invited)
10:30-11:35 Lucas CHAMPOLLION (NYU)
The weak/strong ambiguity in donkey sentences cannot be explained away.
11:50-1:20 Thomas Ede ZIMMERMANN (Frankfurt)
Type-shifting and the proportion problem (Invited)
2:30 - 3:35 Paul DEKKER (Amsterdam)
Indexical Inference
3:35 - 4:40 Matthew MANDELKERN (MIT)
Taking things for granted (Graduate Student Prize)
4:55 - 6:25 Hans KAMP (Stuttgart/Texas)
Presuppositions after 1983 (Invited)
Sunday, May 3
9 - 10:30 David BEAVER (Texas)
“The X” files (Invited)
10:30 - 12 Simon CHARLOW (Rutgers)
The scope of alternatives (Invited)
12:15 - 1:45 Irene HEIM (MIT)
For more information, contact: Magdalena Kaufmann at magdalena.kaufmann@uconn.edu