University of Michigan

Fall, 2014 Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics



This is the eleventh year of the University of Michigan Philosophy and Linguistics Workshop.
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 7–9.

  Workshop Organizer:
  Rich Thomason ⟨rthomaso@umich.edu⟩

  Presenters: 

Kyle Rawlins, “Aboutness and attitudes”
Barbara Abbott, “An information packaging approach to presuppositions and
          conventional implicatures”
Daniel Drucker, “Relativism and ranking perspectives”
Itamar Francez, “Scope and predicational structure in summative existentials”
Ezra Keshet, “Towards a unified theory of anaphora”
Cat St. Croix, “Standing oughts as generic conditionals”
Rich Thomason, “Causatives and Culminations”

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

 See  here for a time schedule.