University of Michigan

Fall, 2013 Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics



  Generous support from:
  • College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts, University of Michigan
  • International Institute, University of Michigan
  • Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan
 The topic of the workshop for this, the eleventh year of  

   a regular series, is context and discourse.

  Attendance for those who are not faculty or registered
   students at the University of Michigan is by invitation only.

  Dates:   The workshop will be held November 22–24.

  Workshop Organizer:
  Rich Thomason <rthomaso@umich.edu>

  Presenters: 

Sam Cumming, "The Attentional Foundations of Coherence"
Christopher Potts, "Conversational Implicatures: Interacting with Grammar"
Jessica Rett, "Illocutionary mood and speaker attitude"
Mandy Simons (with David Beaver, Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser), "Projection as a Function of Information Structuring"
Una Stojnic, Matthew Stone, and Ernest Lepore, "Discourse and Logical Form"

 Program:   See  here for information about presented papers and commenters.

 See  here for a time schedule.