RT list: Procedural Meaning Conference

Dear all,

below you will find the provisional programme for the conference 'Procedural
Meaning: Problems and Perspectives' (Madrid, Octobre 15-17, 2009)

Further information at http://www.uned.es/proceduralmeaning

PROCEDURAL MEANING: PROBLEMS & PERSPECTIVES

October 15-17, 2009 MADRID

http://www.uned.es/proceduralmeaning

*PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME*

*October 15th, 2009*

9:00-10:30 Registration

10:30­-11:10 Bolly, Catherine & Degand, Liesbeth (Université
Catholique de Louvain, BE): Grammaticalization of Discourse Markers: From
conceptual to procedural meaning?

11:10-­11:50 Curcó, Carmen & Melis, Chantal (National Autonomous
University of Mexico, MX): Diachronic change and procedural meaning in the
emergence of discourse markers: a proposal

11:50-­12:50 Opening session.*Invited speaker: Diane Blakemore
(University of Salford, UK): Procedural Meaning and the Representation of
Thought in Fiction*

12:50-­14:00 Lunch

14:00­-14:40 Olmos, Susana; Innocenti, Laura & Saeed, John (Dublin
Institute of Technology, Trinity College Dublin, IE): The procedure of
marking contrast with alternatives: a constraint in the derivation of higher
level explicatures

14:40­-15:20 Blass, Regina (AIU, Nairobi,KEN): Interpretive
Resemblance marker and concept formation

15:20­-16:00 Reboul, Anne (L2C2, CNRS UMR5230 Lyon, FR): An
*Aggiornamento
*for Relevance Theory: the procedurality of so-called representational
concepts

16:00­-17:00 Coffee break and poster session

17:00­-18:00 *Invited speaker: Bruce Fraser (Boston University, USA):
** A Critical Review of the Conceptual-Procedural Distinction *

18:00­-18:40 Espinal, M.Teresa & Prieto, Pilar (Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona, E): Double negation as procedural meaning in catalan. Prosodic
correlates

18:40­-19:20 Moeschler, Jacques (University of Geneva, CH): Negation
as a test for the conceptual/procedural distinction

21:00 Conference dinner

October 16th, 2009

9:00-9:40 Lucas, Christopher (University of Cambridge, UK): Loss
of procedural meaning: the case of English weak definites

9:40-10:20 Zaki, Mai (Middlesex University, UK): Demonstratives
and the Conceptual/Procedural Distinction

10:20­-11:00 Gundel, Jeannette (University of Minnesota, USA): Child
language, Theory of mind, and the Role of Procedural Markers in Identifying
Referents of Nominal Expressions

11:00-­11:30 Coffee break

11:30-­12:30 *Invited speaker: Thorstein Fretheim (U. Trondheim, N) *

* The Use of Conceptual Meaning for a
Procedural Purpose *

12:30-­13:10 Barbet, Cécile (University of Neuchatel, CH & Opal Coast
University, FR): Toward a relevance theoretic account of the French modal
verb *devoir* in diachrony and synchrony

13:10-­14:30 Lunch

14:30­-15:10 Labastía, Leopoldo Omar (Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, RA): Procedural encoding and tone choice in Buenos Aires Spanish

15:10­-15:50 Clark, Billy & Wharton, Tim (Middlesex University, UK):
Prosody and the Interaction of Procedural Meanings

15:50­-16:30 Sax, Daniel (University of Warsaw, PO): Predictability
and non-final stress in English and a "free word order" language like Polish

16:30-­17:30 Coffee break and poster session

17:30­-18:30 *Invited speaker: Daniel Wedgwood (U. Edinburgh, UK)*

*Interpreting Procedures: Some Conceptual Issues in Meaning and Grammar *

18:30-­20:30 Guided walking tour

October 17th, 2009

9:00-9:40 Borthen, Kaja (Dept. of Language and Communication
Studies, NTNU, N): Procedural meaning modeled in a multimodular linguistic
framework

9:40-10:20 Saussure, Louis de (University of Neuchatel, CH): On
some methodological issues in the conceptual - procedural distinction

10:20­-11:00 Unger, Christoph (SIL International and
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, D): Exploring the borderline between
procedural encoding and pragmatic inference

11:00-­11:30 Coffee break

11:30-­12:10 Jary, Mark (Roehampton University, UK): Procedural
accounts of the declarative and context-change potential

12:10-­13:10 Closing session

*Invited speaker: Deirdre Wilson (University College London, UK)*

* Tba *

13:10-­15:00 Cocktail
Received on Tue May 26 23:20:48 2009