Conference
on
Optimal Interpretations of Words and Constituents

Date: August 30-31, 2000
Location: UiL OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Organizers: Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop, Henriëtte de Swart

The organization of this conference is financially supported by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS).

Program

Wednesday, August 30, 2000

Location: Trans 10, room 001

10.15-10.30 Opening Remarks
10.30-11.30 INVITED SPEAKER: D. Terence Langendoen (Tucson)
When do we get 'any'?
11.30-12.10 Reinhard Blutner & Bart Geurts (Berlin)
Negative Strengthening and Blocking
12.10-13.10 LUNCH BREAK
13.10-13.50 Peter Ackema (Utrecht)
A Morphological Approach to the Absence of Expletive PRO
13.50-14.30 Benjamin Lyngfelt (Göteborg)
Optimal Control in Swedish Relative Infinitives
14.30-15.10 Barbara Stiebels (Düsseldorf)
Nominal Inverse Systems
15.10-15.40 TEA BREAK
15.40-16.20 Robert van Rooy (Amsterdam)
Bidirectional OT; Q and I, or R and E?
16.20-17.20 INVITED SPEAKER: Miriam Butt (Konstanz)
Optimal Case Realization in Historical Change

Thursday, August 31, 2000

Location: Bijlhouwerstraat 6, room 2.04

10.00-11.00 INVITED SPEAKER: Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam)
Anchoring and Bidirectionality
11.00-11.40 Alice ter Meulen (Groningen)
Incorporation Effects on Reflexivity: an OT Account
11.40-12.20 David Beaver (Stanford)
Centering in OT
12.20-13.20 LUNCH BREAK
13.20-14.00 Daniel Büring (Santa Cruz/Los Angeles)
Word Order, Prosodic Phrasing, and the Interpretation of Indefinites
14.00-14.40 Marie Nilsenova (Amsterdam)
Optimal Interpretation of Tense in Discourse
14.40-15.10 TEA BREAK
15.10-16.40 Forum discussion
Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht), chair
Peter Ackema (Utrecht)
Reinhard Blutner (Berlin)
Alice ter Meulen (Groningen)

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