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Newsletter August 22, No. 42



                      C S L I   N E W S L E T T E R
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August 22, 1985                 Stanford                       Vol. 2, No. 42
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     A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
     Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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           CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR *NEXT* THURSDAY, August 29, 1985

   12 noon		TINLunch
     Ventura Hall       ``A Unified Indexical Analysis of ``same'' and
     Conference Room    ``different'': A Response to Stump and Carlson''
			by David Dowty
			Discussion led by Mats Rooth
			(Abstract on page 1)
		
   2:15 p.m.		CSLI Talk
     Ventura Hall	No talk this week
     Conference Room	
			

   3:30 p.m.		Tea
     Ventura Hall		

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                              ANNOUNCEMENTS

   No activities have been scheduled for this Thursday, August 22.  Next
   week, TINLunch will resume.
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                    ABSTRACT FOR NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
      ``A Unified Indexical Analysis of ``same'' and ``different'':
                    A Response to Stump and Carlson''

      Stump's ``A GPSG Fragment for `Dependent Nominals' '' is concerned
   with sentences such as 
         ``Mary saw ``Amadeus,'' but John saw a different movie.''
   and
            ``Every student saw a different movie.'' 
   where the interpretation of ``different movie'' is said to be
   dependent on the interpretation of another NP in the sentence or
   discourse.  Stump's analysis involves quantifier storage; Dowty
   criticizes some of the data which motivated this approach, and
   proposes an indexical or contextual analysis which posits a number of
   free variables in the interpretaton of ``same'' and ``different,'' the
   interpretation of which is determined by context.  In the second
   example above, the interpretation of ``different'' includes a free
   variable which is bound by the quantifier ``every student.''
							--Mats Rooth

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                     CSLI WORKSHOP ON GERMAN GRAMMAR

      On Monday, August 26, and Tuesday, August 27, a small and rather
   informal workshop on problems of German syntax and semantics will be
   held at CSLI.
      The event was not planned as a conference-style workshop with
   fixed-length papers, restricted discussion periods and a large
   non-participating audience.  The goal is rather to present affiliates
   and visitors of CSLI who have worked on different theoretically
   interesting aspects of German with an opportunity to learn about each
   other's work and to get feedback on their own results.  We consider
   the mix of syntacticians and semanticists among the participants
   especially fortunate for the success of the workshop.
      Drop-in participants are welcome but are forwarned not to rely too
   much on the announced schedule since talks and discussions may
   overrun.  On both days, participants will be invited to a simple lunch
   on the trailer patio.

   Monday morning 9-12:

   David Perlmutter		On German Causatives
   (UCSD)

   Mark Johnson			Constituent Structure of the
   (Stanford and CSLI)		German VP

   Hans Uszkoreit		Ordering Principles
   (SRI and CSLI)

   Lunch on the patio

   Monday afternoon 1:30:

   John Nerbonne		Tense and Temporal Adverbs
   (HP and CSLI)

      After John's talk, interested participants will be given a brief
   overview over projects on German in the area of computational
   linguistics.  Guenter Goerz (U. Erlangen), Manfred Pinkal (U.
   Duesseldorf), Uwe Reyle (U. Stuttgart), and Hans Uszkoreit (SRI and
   CSLI) will give 10 minute talks on recent and current projects such as
   HAM-ANS, KIT, METAL, PLIDIS, EVAR, SUSY, the Stuttgart LFG
   implementation, GPSG in Berlin.

   Tuesday morning 9-12:

   Godehard Link		Generalized Quantifiers and Plural:
   (U. Muenchen and CSLI) 	The case of German 'je' (each)

   Dietmar Zaefferer		Bare Plurals and Naked Relatives:
   (U. Muenchen and CSLI)	Semantics of German wh-constructions

   Manfred Pinkal		Syntactic and Semantic Gender
   (U. Duesseldorf)

   Lunch on the patio
   Departure of the participants to their offices

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            INTERACTIONS OF MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND DISCOURSE
     ``Logophoricity: SELF and SOURCE in Discourse and Morphology''
              Summary of the meeting on Thursday, August 15

      Peter Sells gave a presentation on the notion of ``logophoricity''
   that is grammatically expressed in many languages, and proposed that
   there are more primitive notions of SELF and SOURCE in terms of which
   logophoric domains are created and perpetuated.  He proposed that the
   grammatical conditions on the antecedent of the Japanese reflexive
   `zibun' are that:

      (a) its antecedent is a grammatical subject, or
      (b) its antecedent realises the SELF of the discourse

      The SELF may be realised in two ways, either concomitant with the
   SOURCE of a verb of communication, as with `Max' in ``Mary heard from
   Max that ...''  or ``Max said that ....''  Alternatively, the SOURCE
   may be the external speaker, as with the `psychological' predicates,
   such as ``That so-and-so distressed Max;'' again `Max' realises the
   SELF here.  Intuitively, psychological predicates are those predicates
   with which an external speaker says something about a mental state of
   a sentence-internal protagonist.  A simple notion of logophoricity
   cannot distinguish these two cases.
      A framework for representing these constructs was given, in terms
   of the Discourse Representation Theory developed by Kamp, and various
   differences between the communicational and psychological predicates
   were discussed.
      There was also discussion of the English prefix ``self-,'' as in
   ``self-confidence,'' which also gives evidence in favor of the
   constructs proposed by Sells.  In particular, nouns like
   ``self-deception'' give a clear indication that the speaker is
   classifying the mental state of some other person.	--Peter Sells

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