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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) |
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8:45-9:00 Welcoming remarks
Anthony Woodbury, Chair, Department of Linguistics |
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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 |
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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 |
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4:00-5:00
Relavitizing in Space and Time
Rajesh Bhatt, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
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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 |
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11:15-12:15
Discourse Modes across languages
Carlota Smith, the University of Texas at Austin |
Lunch |
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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 |
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4:00-5:00
What a Centering Theory account of topichood buys us
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania |
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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 |