The Department of Linguistics and The New York Community Trust

announce

4th WORKSHOP

ON

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE

University of Texas at Austin

Friday-Sunday
March 3-5
Conference Rooms: 
UTC 4.132 (Fri)
UTC 4.102 (Sat am)
3.102 Homer Rainey Hall (Sat pm & Sun am)

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

Friday, March 3

8:45-9:00 Welcoming remarks
Anthony Woodbury, Chair, Department of Linguistics
9:00 - 10:00 Problems with the Right Frontier Constraint in Discourse Structure
Nicholas Asher, CNRS, laboratoire IRIT & the University of Texas at Austin
10:00 -11:00 'Only' and Conventional Presupposition
Craige Roberts, Ohio State University

Lunch

1:45 - 2:45 Prison work songs and ex-slave narratives
Lisa Green, the University of Texas at Austin
2:45 - 3:45 Aspectual classes of tenses and the semantics/pragmatics interface -- a SDRT investigation
Patrick Caudal, LLF, CNRS

Break

4:00-5:00 Relavitizing in Space and Time
Rajesh Bhatt, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Saturday, March 4

9:00 - 10:00 Grammaticized metadiscourse
Chris Barker, University of California San Diego
10:00-11:00 Expressing Subjectivity: A Case Study on the Spanish Clitic 'se' and the Japanese Auxiliary Verb 'shimau'
Chiyo Nishida, the University of Texas at Austin

Break

11:15-12:15 Discourse Modes across languages
Carlota Smith, the University of Texas at Austin

Lunch

1:45-2:45 Apo koinou and Intrusion. Toward a syntactic-pragmatic typology of amalgam constructions in spoken English
Knud Lambrecht, the University of Texas at Austin; Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum, Rice University
2:45-3:45 Having a Topic, Wanting a Focus
Steve Wechsler, the University of Texas at Austin

Break

4:00-5:00 What a Centering Theory account of topichood buys us
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania

Sunday, March 5

9:00 - 10:00 The nature of imperative force in imperative subtypes
Paul Portner, Georgetown University
10:00 - 11:00 Strategies and Opportunities for Computational Discourse Structure Analysis
Jason Baldridge, the University of Texas at Austin

Lunch and wrap-up discussion