Program: The 5th Workshop on Discourse Structure in honor of Carlota S. Smith

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 (at Calhoun 100)

13:15 - 13:30 Opening Remarks: Stephen Wechsler
13:30 - 14:30 The De Se Theory of Indexicals: Convergent Evidence from Philosophy, Psychology, and Typology
Stephen Wechsler (UT Austin)
14:30 - 15:30 Sources of Lexical Inferences
Lauri Karttunen (PARC/Stanford University)
15:30 - 15:45 break
15:45 - 16:45 Going from X to Y
Annie Zaenen (PARC)
16:45 - 17:45 Bounded-rational theory of mind for conversational implicature
Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University)

Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 (at Calhoun 100)

09:00 - 10:00 Measurement and Intensionality in the Semantics of the Progressive
Cleo Condoravdi (PARC/Stanford University)
10:00 - 11:00 Focus Contrast in Web Harvested Data
Mats Rooth (Cornell University)
11:00 - 11:15 break
11:15 - 12:15 Implicatures in Discourse
Nicholas Asher (UT Austin)

Supported by a grant from:

The New York Community Trust.