7-9 Jun 2014
Norwich, U.K.
School of Philosophy University of East Anglia 7-9 June 2014
Logic, Grammar & Meaning
a conference on philosophy of language, logic, and linguistics
Logic, Grammar, and Meaning is a three day conference that takes place at
the University of East Anglia, Norwich on June 7-9, 2014. The conference
explores the interactions between logic and natural language. For more
details about the conference, please see the programme below and the
conference website. The registration for this event is still ongoing, and
we warmly welcome you to join in. To do that, please check the
registration details and then fill in the form on the registration page.
For further inquiries, do not hesitate to contact us at
logogrammar@gmail.com.
Programme
Saturday, 7 June
1:00 -- 1:30
Registration & Refreshments
1:30 -- 2:50
What is a linguistic variable? John Collins
2:50 -- 3:00
Break
3:00 -- 3:40
Type ambiguous names ? Anders Schoubye
Informative counterfactuals ? Todd Snider & Adam Bjorndahl
3:45 -- 4:25
Logic for languages containing referentially promiscuous names ? Geoff Georgi
Interventions in premise semantics ? Paolo Santorio
4:25 -- 4:40
Coffee Break
4:40 -- 5:20
The unbearable lightness of existence ? Frederique Janssen-Lauret
On local tautologies and assertability ? Clemens Mayr & Jacopo Romoli
5:20 -- 5:30
Break
5:30 -- 6:50
Semantic explanations ? Zoltan Szabo
Sunday, 8 June
9:00 -- 10:20
Title to be announced Gennaro Chierchia
10:20 -- 10:35
Coffee Break
10:35 -- 11:15
Epistemic indefinites: Ignorance explained by logic ? Anamaria Falaus
Context, content gaps, and binding Alun Davies
11:20 -- 12:00
A probabilistic account of epistemic modal adjectives ? Poppy Mankowitz
Linguistic returns Matthew Teichman
12:00 -- 1:30
Lunch
1:30 -- 2:50
Title to be announced Ofra Magidor
2:50 -- 3:00
Break
3:00 -- 3:40
Logical Consequence: From logical terms to semantic constraints ? Gil Sagi
How many meanings for ?may?? The case for modal polysemy ? Barbara Vetter & Emanuel Viebahn
3:45 -- 4:25
Logical competence and grammars: The case of intersective and subsective modifiers ? Ulrich
Reichard
Epistemic modals: contextualism for expressivists ? Andy Yu
4:25 -- 4:40
Coffee break
4:40 -- 6:00
Title to be announced Frank Veltman
Drinks & Conference Dinner
Monday, 9 June
9:00 -- 10:20
Title to be announced Angelika Kratzer
10:20 -- 10:35
Coffee Break
10:35 -- 11:15
Revisiting a problem for possible- worlds analyses of modality: The case for entailment
rather than analysis ? Zsofia Zvolenszky
On the role of formal languages in natural language: Generative perspectives ? Tamara
Dobler
11:20 -- 12:00
The variadic operator approach to natural language ? Dan Zeman
Ontology, natural language, and formal semantics ? Ephraim Glick
12:00 -- 12:10
Break
12:10 -- 1:30
How logical are the connectives? Daniel Rothschild
1:30 -- 2:00
Coffee & Snack
2:00
Conference Closing
Contact Info
* Contact: logogrammar@gmail.com
* Registration via registration form
* Website: www.confhub.net/lola/
Sponsors
* School of Philosophy UEA
* British Logic Colloquium
* Analysis Trust
* Linguistic Association of Great Britain
* Society for Women in Philosophy (UK)
* Mind Association
Organised by John Collins, Maria Serban, and Andrei Nasta