University of Michigan

Fall 2008 Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics


   Papers to be Presented
  at the Workshop   

       Presenter: Nick Asher, "Making the Right Commitments in Dialogue"
              (co-authored with Alex Lascarides)

              The abstract in PDF format 
              The paper in PDF format 
       Commentators: Matthew Stone and Christopher Potts                

       Presenter: Eliza Block, "Is the Symmetry Problem Really a Problem?"
              The abstract in PDF format 
              The paper in PDF format 
       Commentators: Ezra Keshet and Eric Swanson                

       Presenter: Wayne Davis, "Irregular Negations: Implicature and Idiom Theories"
              The abstract in PDF format 
              The paper in PDF format 
       Commentators: Barbara Abbott and Eduardo Garcia                

       Presenter: Larry Horn, "On F-implicature: Myth-Analysis and Rehabilitation"
              The abstract in doc format 
              The paper in PDF format 
       Commentators: Mandy Simons and Dustin Tucker                

       Presenter: Robert van Rooij, "Relevance in Cooperation and Conflict"
              (co-authored with Michael Franke and Tikitu de Jager)

              The abstract in text format 
              The paper in PDF format 
       Commentators: Zoltan Szabo and Rich Thomason