Implicatures, Sémantique Dynamique & Théorie du Choix Rationnel

Implicatures, Dynamic Semantics & Rational Choice Theory

(2-year Project, CNRS, 2003-2005)

 last update 11/12/03

Last Modified: September 5, 2005

Principal Investigators & Collaborators / Responsables du Projet &  Collaborateurs:


Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & IJN)

Benjamin Spector (LLF-Paris 7 & Ecole Normale Supérieure & IJN)


Amsili, Pascal, U. Paris 7

Beyssade, Claire, IJN, Paris

Chierchia, Gennaro, U. Bicocca  

Dekker, Paul,  ILLC, Amsterdam

Egré, Paul, IHPST & IJN  

Keenan, Ed, UCLA      

Kobele, Greg, UCLA  


Noveck, Ira,   ISC , Lyon

Recanati, François,  IJN, Paris

Sperber, Dan, IJN, Paris      


Van Rooy, Robert,  ILLC, Amsterdam       



Papers by Participants to the Project / Articles par des Participants du Projet:


Beyssade, Claire & Marandin, Jean-Marie (2004) 'French Intonation and Attitude Attribution',
ms, IJN & U. Paris 7 [pdf]

Beyssade, Claire & Sorin, Carmen (2005) 'A Syntax-Based Analysis of Predication', ms, IJN & U. Paris 7 [pdf]

Recanati, François (2003) 'Embedded Implicatures',
ms., Institut Jean-Nicod [pdf]

Schlenker, Philippe (2004)
"Person and Binding: A Partial Survey", Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica, vol. 16, 1: 155-218 [pdf] 

Schlenker, Philippe (2004) 
"The Lazy Frenchman's Approach to the Subjunctive (Speculations on Reference to Worlds and Semantic Defaults in the Analysis of Mood)",  to appear in Proceedings of Going Romance XVII   [pdf]

Schlenker, Philippe (2005) "Non-Redundancy: Towards A Semantic Reinterpretation of Binding Theory"Natural Language Semantics 13, 1: 1-92, 2005 [pdf]

Schlenker, Philippe (2005) Minimize Restrictors! (Notes on Definite Descriptions, Condition C and Epithets)", in Bary, Huitink and Maier (eds),  Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 2004, 385-416 [pdf]

Schlenker, Philippe (2005) "Ontological Symmetry in Language: A Brief Manifesto", to appear, Mind & Language  [pdf]

Spector, Benjamin (2004) 'Scalar Implicatures: Exhaustivity and Gricean Reasoning',
Proceedings of the Student Session, ESSLLI'03, ed. B. Ten Cate [Expanded Version] [pdf]

Spector, Benjamin (2004) 'Lectures plurielles et lectures numériquement neutres des indéfinis pluriels: une explication pragmatique', hand-out  [pdf]
 
Spector, Benjamin (2004)  'Exhaustive interpretations: preference for positive information and principle of epistemic symmetry', hand-out of a talk given at ZAS (Berlin) in the first meeting of Semaniknetzwerk, Berlin, Sept. 3-4 2004  [pdf]

Spector, Benjamin (2004) 'Intervention effects in how-many questions and the syntax/semantics interface', abstract of a talk to be given in November 2004 at Sinn und Bedeutung [pdf]

Stojanovic, Isidora (2004) 'A Different Story About Indexicals',
ms., Stanford  [pdf]


Some recent events that were  supported by the  ACI


-Robert van Rooy's Paris Lectures / Conférences de Robert van Rooy à Paris:

Pragmatic Interpretation: Inferring from Content to Context: [pdf]

Language Use and Lewisian Signalling Games: [pdf]

-EALing 2004 (École d'Automne en Linguistique), which was partly funded by this CNRS project, took place at ENS in Paris, September 27-October 2, 2004. Further information here

-The Paris Workshop on 'Presuppositions and Implicatures' (Atelier 'Présupposition et Implicatures'), 
which was co-organized by this CNRS project, took place at ENS in Paris on  Monday, October 4th  & Tuesday, October 5th, ENS, 45, rue d'Ulm, Paris.  Further information here
 
-First Paris Amsterdam Logic Meeting of Young Researchers  [homepage] (trips)

-The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction: What is it, and does it really matter? (Workshop, Context'05)  [homepage] (workshop dinner)

-EALing 2005 (École d'Automne en Linguistique), which will be partly funded by this CNRS project, will take place at ENS in Paris, September 19-27, 2005. Further information here



Intermediate Report

-Project Report (in French): [pdf]

-Project Presentation (slides, in French): [pdf]