Program

Workshop on Presupposition Accommodation

NEW!!! See the Workshop Program, the Poster Session Program and the Short Course Schedule

To get the dialog started, the following reasearchers from five related disciplines have been commissioned to write a paper on Presupposition Accommodation by June, 2006:

Accommodation from the perspective of Artificial Intelligence
Rich Thomason, University of Michigan and Matthew Stone and David DeVault, Rutgers , The State University of New Jersey (pdf)
Accommodation from a Pragmatic perspective
Barbara Abbott, Michigan State University (pdf)
Accommodation from a Semantic perspective
Kai von Fintel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)
Accommodation from the perspective of Philosophy
Joshua Dever, University of Texas at Austin (pdf)
Accommodation from the perspective of Psychology and Psycholinguistics
Lyn Frazier, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (pdf)

The commissioned papers will be also available on the resources section in this website in early summer, 2006

Registration is now open!

The body of the workshop will be structure around a set of prepared responses to each of the commissioned papers. Each commissioned paper will be discussed in a two-hour session, including the prepared responses, discussion by all attendees, and a quick response by the commissioned author.

Discussion Schedule:

Friday, October 13: early P.M. session:
- Responses to Thomason and Stone by:
  - Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth, Cornell University Linguistics
  - Staffan Larsson, Gothenburg University Linguistics
Saturday, October 14, morning:
- Responses to Abott by:
  - Gregory Ward, Northwestern University Linguistics
  - Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California Computer Science
Saturday, October 14, Afternoon:
- Responses to von Fintel by:
  - David Beaver, Stanford University Linguistics and Henk Zeevat, University of Amsterdam Linguistics
  - Zoltán Szabò, Cornell University Philosophy
- Responses to Dever by:
  - Anthony Gillies, University of Michigan Philosophy
  - Kees van Deemter, Computing Science Department, University of Aberdeen
Sunday, October 15, morning:
- Response to Frazier by:
  - Michael Tanenhaus, University of Rochester Brain and Cognitive Science and Gregory Carlson, University of Rochester, Linguistics
  - Anne Bezuidenhuit, University of South Carolina Philosophy

In addition, Laurence R. Horn, Yale University Linguistics, Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon Philosophy, Bart Geurts, University of Nijmegen and Nirit Kadmon, Tel-Aviv University will serve as general commentators.

We expect to have a lively and stimulating discussion at the workshop. Please join us by submitting a Poster or by attending the week-long pre-workshop intensive course on Presupposition and Accommodation.