The accepted papers are (by alphabetical order):
- An Account of Natural Language Coordination in Type Theory with Coercive Subtyping.
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo.
- A Predicative Operator and Underspecification by the Type Theory of Acyclic Recursion.
Roussanka Loukanova.
- A Speaker-Referring OT Pragmatics of Quantity Expressions.
Chris Cummins.
- Describing Music with Metagrammars.
Simon Petitjean.
- Estimating Constraint Weights from Treebanks.
Philippe Blache.
- Inducing Lexical Entries for an Incremental Semantic Grammar.
Arash Eshghi, Matthew Purver, Julian Hough and Yo Sato.
- Modelling Language, Action and Perception in Type Theory with Records.
Simon Dobnik, Robin Cooper and Staffan Larsson.
- On Language Acquisition Through Womb Grammars.
Emilio Miralles, Veronica Dahl and Leonor Becerra-Bonache.
- Ontology driven Contextual Reference Resolution in Embodied Construction Grammar.
Jesús Oliva, Jerome Feldman, Luca Giraldi and Ellen Dodge.
- Resolving Relative Time Expressions in Dutch Text with Constraint Handling Rules.
Matje van de Camp and Henning Christiansen.
- What Constraints for Representing Multilinearity in Sign Language?
Michael Filhol and Annelies Braffort.
Speakers:
Ruth Kempson, King's College London
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Royal Holloway University of London and Open University of Cyprus
Talk:
Title: Grammars as Mechanisms for Real-Time Tree-Growth: Explaining Clitic Pronouns
Abstract: In this talk, we argue for a shift of perspective into defining grammars as mechanisms for incremental growth of interpretation reflecting the time-line of processing (Dynamic Syntax: Kempson et al. 2001, Cann et al. 2005, Chatzikyriakidis & Kempson 2011). The core syntactic notion of this framework is that of monotonic context-relative tree growth (following Blackburn & Meyer-Viol 1994), with both content and structural parameters of underspecification and update. Our case study is the puzzle of clitic pronoun clusters of Modern Greek dialects, which illustrate both the low level morphological idiosyncracy of such clusterings, and yet the broad cross-linguistic constraints to which they are subject: these dialects display variants of the so-called Person Case Constraint, a constraint whose generality continues to provide a major challenge for current theoretical frameworks (Adger & Harbour 2007, Heap 2005, among others). We show first how the limits on variation displayed in such clusters are explicable in terms of a constraint debarring more than one underspecified tree relation of a type at a time, a constraint only expressible in a dynamical grammar framework; and we give an analysis of Greek dialectal variation in these terms. Then we explore the consequences of this theoretical perspective, viz. the domain-generality of the system of growth underpinning natural-language syntax; and we will suggest that metrical ambiguities and metrical dissonance displayed in music (Vazan & Schober 2004, London 2012) are subject to the same restriction on real-time structural processing.
Thursday September, 13 2012 |
9h00-9h30 |
Opening Session |
9h30-10h45 |
Invited Talk
Grammars as Mechanisms for Real-Time Tree-Growth: Explaining Clitic Pronouns
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10h45-11h15 |
Coffee break |
11h15-12h15 |
Session 1 (long papers)
Resolving Relative Time Expressions in Dutch Text with Constraint Handling Rules
A Speaker-Referring OT Pragmatics of Quantity Expressions
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12h15-14h00 |
Lunch break |
14h00-15h30 |
Session 2 (long papers)
An Account of Natural Language Coordination in Type Theory with Coercive Subtyping
Modelling Language, Action and Perception in Type Theory with Records
A Predicative Operator and Underspecification by the Type Theory of Acyclic Recursion
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15h30-16h00 |
Coffee break |
16h00-16h40 |
Session 3 (short papers)
On Language Acquisition Through Womb Grammars
Estimating Constraint Weights from Treebanks
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19h30-23h00 |
Banquet |
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Friday September, 14 2012 |
9h30-10h30 |
Session 4 (long papers)
Ontology driven Contextual Reference Resolution in Embodied Construction Grammar
Inducing Lexical Entries for an Incremental Semantic Grammar
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10h30-11h00 |
Coffee break |
11h00-11h40 |
Session 5 (short papers)
What Constraints for Representing Multilinearity in Sign Language?
Describing Music with Metagrammars
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11h40-12h15 |
Closing Session |
12h15-14h00 |
Lunch break |
14h00-19h00 |
Social event (visit of the Chenonceau Royal Castle) |
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During CSLP 2012, there will be two main social events: the banquet, which will take place in the Bâteau Lavoir, and the visit of the famous Castle of Chenonceau (located 90 km away from Orléans):