Program

Saturday, August 10th

13:30-14:00. Registration.

14:00-15:00. (invited lecture) Carl Pollard:
Do you walk to school or bring your lunch?: Mysteries of Alternative Questions.

Coffee break

15:15-15:45. Yusuke Kubota and Robert Levine:
Determiner gapping as higher-order discontinuous constituency.

15:45-16:15. Stergios Chatzikyriakidis and Zhaohui Luo:
Adjectives in a Modern Type-Theoretical Setting.

Coffee break

16:45-17:15. Jérôme Kriman and Sylvain Salvati:
On the complexity of free word orders.

17:15-17:45. Richard Zuber:
Some higher order functions on binary relations.

19:30. Conference dinner, at Benders Marie.

Sunday, August 11th

10:00-11:00. (invited lecture) Chung-chieh Shan:
From distributional semantics to formal grammar and back.

Coffee break

11:15-11:45. Makoto Kanazawa and Sylvain Salvati:
The String-Meaning Relations Definable by Lambek Grammars and Context-Free Grammars.

11:45-12:15. Alexey Sorokin:
On the generative power of discontinuous Lambek calculus.

Lunch

13:30-14:00. Laura Kallmeyer, Rainer Osswald and Robert Van Valin, Jr.:
Tree Wrapping for Role and Reference Grammar.

14:00-14:30. Brian Buccola:
On the Expressivity of Optimality Theory and Ordered Rewrite Rules.

Coffee break

15:00-15:30. Stepan Kuznetsov:
Conjunctive grammars in Greibach normal form and the Lambek calculus with additive connectives.

15:30-16:00. Oriol Valentín, Daniel Serret and Glyn Morrill:
A Count Invariant for Lambek Calculus with Additives and Bracket Modalities.