Linguistics and Philosophy Student Workshop USC Linguistics Welcome Back Picnic USC Linguistics Hike USC Commencement 2009

Date:

December 8th 2009

Place:

GFS 330

Guest Speaker:

Prof. James Higginbotham

9:00 -9:30

Breakfast

9:30-10:30

Linguistics I            

Chair: Heui-Joo Jeoung

9:30-10:00

Ann Hao    

Linguistic analysis of conspiracy theories in Iran

10:00-10:30

Hyuna B. Kim

A pragmatic resolution of a semantic conflict

10:30 -10:45

Break

10:45 -11:45

Invited Talk

Prof. James Higginbotham

"Imagination and the Self"

11:45 -12:00   

Break

12:00-1:00   

Linguistics II             

Chair: Sergio Robles-Puente

12:00-12:30

Erika Varis

Vowel hiatus and Dispersion Theory:

data from Spanish and Catalan determiners

12:30-1:00

Ed Holsinger & David Li 

From Seeing to Saying: On the relation between

visual grouping and prosodic grouping

1:00 – 2:00

Lunch Break

Poster by Sarah Ouwayda

Contrast Preservation in dialects of North Levantine Arabic

2:00 – 3:30

Philosophy I

Chair: Ben Lennertz/ Robert Shanklin

2:00-2:30

Geoff Georgi

Complex Demonstratives, Indexicality, and Ambiguity

2:30-3:00

Justin Snedegar

Contrastive Semantics for Deontic Modals

3:00-3:30

Johannes Volker Schmitt

‘Because statements’ and Constitutive Explanations

3:30 – 3:45

Break

3:45 – 4:45

Linguistics III

Chair: Arunima Choudhury

3:45-4:15

Katy McKinney Bock

Adjective Classes and Ordering Restrictions:

Exploring relevant syntactic-semantic interactions

4:15-4:45

Barbara Tomaszewicz

Spurious Coordination? Multiple Wh-Questions in Slavic

4:45 – 5:00

Break

5:00-6:00

Philosophy II

Chair: Geoff Georgi/Justin Snedegar/ Johannes Volker Schmitt

5:00-5:30

Ben Lennertz

Radical Interpretation and Bayesianism

5:30–6:00

Robert Shanklin

A Semantics of Overall Goodness

6:30–...

Dinner at GFS 330

if you have any questions, please, contact Barbara or Arunima