Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 12
March 9 – 20, 1998
Krystal hotel, Jose Marti Str., Prague 6
Scientific Programme
- Nicholas Asher: Dynamic Semantics, Discourse Structure and the Pragmatics Semantics Interface
- Vladimir Borschev and Barbara H. Partee: Integrating the Semantics of Lexicon, Syntax, Discourse Structure, and Context
- W. U. Dressler: Functional explanation in linguistics
- Kai von Fintel: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Quantifier Domains
- Ferenc Kiefer: Ways of explaining polysemy
- Fred Jelinek: Advanced methods of language modeling for speech recognition
- James D. McCawley: Notions of Syntactic Structure
- James Pustejovsky: The Logic and Metaphysics of Semantic Universals
- Henk van Riemsdijk: Projections: functional, semi-lexical and lexical heads
- Jindrich Toman: Theories of Clitics
- Annie Zaenen: Complex Predicates, a typological approach
Time Schedule
First week (Monday March 9 – Friday March 13):
| 9:30 - 11:00 | 11:30 - 13:00 | 14:30 - 16:00 | 16:30-18:00 | |
| Monday | Pustejovsky | Jelinek | Toman | Asher |
| Tuesday | Pustejovsky | Dressler | Asher | Jelinek |
| Wednesday | Asher | Toman | Dressler | Jelinek |
| Thursday | Bridges and Interfaces | |||
| Friday | Bridges and Interfaces |
Second week (Monday March 16 – Friday March 20):
| 9:30 - 11:00 | 11:30 - 13:00 | 14:30 - 16:00 | 16:30-18:00 | |
| Monday | McCawley | Riemsdijk | Kiefer | Von Fintel |
| Tuesday | McCawley | Riemsdijk | Kiefer | Von Fintel |
| Wednesday | Riemsdijk | McCawley | Kiefer | Partee |
| Thursday | Von Fintel | Zaenen | Partee | Sgall |
| Friday | Partee | Partee | Zaenen | Hajicova |
Bridges and Interfaces
Special to Lecture Series Twelve is that, in conjunction, a conference Bridges and Interfaces: Form, Meaning, and Function is organized, on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of Charles University. The conference takes place in the Charles University historical building, in the old centre of Prague, and consists of a track of invited lectures, and technical sessions of submitted papers.
The conference is held on March 12 until 14, 1998, and it focuses on the relationships between form, meaning and function of linguistic items from the perspective of different theoretical approaches providing thus a fruitful basis for a discussion of bridges and interfaces between different linguistic theories.
