An OSU-ICR co-sponsored workshop will be held on October 24-25 in Columbus, Ohio.
The ICR is announcing a co-sponsored two-day workshop to be held on October 24-25 at the Ohio State Univerisity.
Dynamic Semantics: Modern Type Theoretic and Category Theoretic Approaches
October 24-25, 2015 Ohio State University, Baker Systems Engineering (BE) Room 285
Speakers
Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu University)
Simon Charlow (Rutgers University)
Yusuke Kubota (University of Tsukuba, Ohio State University) Robert Levine (Ohio State University)
Scott Martin (Nuance Communications)
Carl Pollard (Ohio State University)
Ribeka Tanaka (Ochanomizu University)
Murat Yasavul (Ohio State University)
Colin Zwanziger (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organizers
Yusuke Kubota, University of Tsukuba, Ohio State University
Robert Levine, Ohio State University
Carl Pollard, Ohio State University
Workshop Program
Saturday, October 24
8:50-9:00 Introduction by the organizers
9:00-10:45 Scott Martin (Nuance) It all depends: a modern, type-theoretic, compositional dynamic semantics for projection and beyond
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Murat Yasavul (OSU) A Dynamic Context Model for Questions
12:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-16:00 Simon Charlow (Rutgers) Monadic dynamic semantics for anaphora
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:30 Colin Zwanziger (Carnegie Mellon) Comonadic Categorical Semantics of Montague’s Intensional Logic
Sunday, October 25
9:00-10:15 Carl Pollard (OSU) Hyperintensionality meets monadic semantics
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:15 Daisuke Bekki (Ochanomizu) Anaphora and Presuppositions in Dependent Type Semantics
12:15-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Ribeka Tanaka (Ochanomizu) Generalized Quantifiers in Dependent Type Semantics
15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Yusuke Kubota & Robert Levine (Tsukuba, OSU) Scope parallelism in
17:00-17:30 Discussion
Acknowledgement
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the following institutions: The Ohio State University Department of Linguistics for a Targeted Investment in Excellence grant; the University of Tsukuba Institute for Comparative Research; and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for KAKENHI Grant number 15K16732.