Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 14

March 1 – 12, 1999

Krystal hotel, Jose Marti Str., Prague 6

Scientific Programme

• Bengt Altenberg (Sweden): The Use of Parallel Corpora in Cross-Linguistic Research
• Wolfgang Dressler (Austria): Theory of Language and Theory of Language Change
• Eva Hajicova (Czech Republic): Topic-Focus and the Sentence
• Julia Hirschberg (USA): Intonation and Discourse Structure
• Frederick Jelinek (USA): A Structured Language Model and Parser
• Mark Liberman (USA): Tone and Intonation
• Jarmila Panevova (Czech Republic): Valency and Functional Generative Description
• Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Republic):Meanings and Context Change Potentials
• Stanley Peters (USA): Quantification in Natural Language
• Mats Rooth (Germany): Issues in the Grammar of Focus and Ellipsis
• Helmut Schnelle (Germany): Language in the Brain: The New Challenge of Linguistic Theory
• Petr Sgall (Czech Republic): Prague School in the Linguistics of Today
• Mark Steedman (UK): Intonation and Focus
• Joseph Taglicht (Israel): Intonational Phrasing in English - Focusing Structures in English
• Jindrich Toman (USA): Topics in the Histereography of the Prague Circle
• Ken Turner (UK): Between Semantics and Pragmatics

Time Schedule

Week 1 (March 1- March 5, 1999)

	9:30-11:00	11:30-13:00	14:30-16:00	16:30-18:00
Monday 1.3	Steedman	Toman	Rooth	x
Tuesday 2.3	Steedman	Toman	Rooth	Altenberg
Wednesday 3.3	Steedman	Turner	Rooth	Altenberg
Thursday 4.3	Taglicht	Turner	Toman	Altenberg
Friday 5.3	Taglicht	Turner	Panevova	Sgall

Week 2 (March 8- March 12, 1999)

	9:30-11:00	11:30-13:00	14:30-16:00	16:30-18:00
Monday 8.3	Jelinek	Peters	Liberman	Peregrin
Tuesday 9.3	Jelinek	Peters	Schnelle	Liberman
Wednesday 10.3	Jelinek	Hirschberg	Schnelle	Liberman
Thursday 11.3	Peters	Hirschberg	Schnelle	Dressler
Friday 12.3	Hirschberg	Dressler	Hajicova	x

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