Meaning, Optimization and Interaction

Vendredi 09 Septembre 2016, 09:15 to 18:00
Organisation: 
Heather Burnett (LLF)
Lieu: 

ODG – Salle 311

Programme

9:15 Welcome

9:30-10:30 Henriëtte de Swart, Bert Le Bruyn & Martijn van der Klis (Universiteit Utrecht)
Time in Translation

10:30-11:15 Katherine Fraser (Universität Stuttgart)
Sitting and Waiting: Idle meanings of an English posture verb

11:15-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:30 Gerhard Schaden (Université de Lille/CNRS UMR 8163 STL)
Bare Nouns vs UNUS N in the Vulgate

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Roland Mühlenbernd (Universität Tübingen)
Competition and Optimization in Language Change - An Evolutionary Perspective

15:00-15:45 Heather Burnett (LLF, CNRS & Paris 7) & Erez Levon (QMUL)
A (More or Less) Compositional Semantics of Style

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:00 Olga Borik (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Some English-Russian correspondences: the case of singular indefinites

17:00-18:00 Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin) & Grégoire Winterstein (Hong Kong Institute of Education)
Credibility and Social Meanings