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CSLI Calendar, 8 February, vol. 5:16


       C S L I   C A L E N D A R   O F   P U B L I C   E V E N T S
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8 February 1990                     Stanford                   Vol. 5, No. 16
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    A weekly publication of the Center for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI), Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
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          CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR THIS THURSDAY, 8 FEBRUARY 1990

12:00 noon		TINLunch
      Cordura 100	Reading: Peirce on Truth
			by H. S. Thayer
			Discussion led by Tom Burke
			(burke@csli.stanford.edu)
			Abstract in last week's Calendar
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	  CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 1990

12:00 noon		TINLunch
      Cordura 100	Reflexives and Subject Antecedents
			Annie Zaenen
			(zaenen.pa@xerox.com)
			Abstract below
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 2:15 p.m.		CSLI Seminar
      Cordura 100	Characteristics of Different Neurogenic
			Communication Disorders
			Terry Wertz
			Chief, Audiology and Speech Pathology
			VA Medical Center
			Abstract below
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			 NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
		  Reflexives and Subject Antecedents
			     Annie Zaenen

I'll present some data that has led to the hypothesis that in
Norwegian antecedents of (a certain type of) reflexives have to be
subjects.  I then show that there are other data where the antecedent
is not easily analyzed as a subject.  These facts are meant to
introduce the main problem I would like to discuss: do we push the
notion subject to cover all the facts or do we postulate a different
level of representation that is close to semantics but nevertheless
has some "syntactic" properties of its own and state a partially
disjoint condition on the occurrence of the reflexives?  I am mainly
interested in getting reactions from nonlinguists about the different
ways linguists tend to model a situation where there are some
intuitively rather heterogeneous conditions on the occurrence of a
construction or a lexical item that cannot be reduced to surface
syntax or to semantics.
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		       NEXT WEEK'S CSLI SEMINAR
	       Characteristics of Different Neurogenic
		       Communication Disorders
			     Terry Wertz

Few agree on how many neurogenic communication disorders may exist
subsequent to neurological disease or trauma.  Fewer agree on the
definitions of different disorders.  Nevertheless, at least seven
different neurogenic communication disorders have been identified --
aphasia, dementia, language of confusion, right hemisphere
communication deficits, communication deficits in closed head injury,
apraxia of speech, and dysarthria.  In some patients, two or more
disorders may coexist.

Attention to phonology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics assists in
differentiating among disorders.  The results of this effort should
provide patients with an appropriate prognosis and permit selecting
the most efficacious management.

This presentation includes a definition, list of salient
characteristics, prognosis, managements, and patient examples for each
of the seven neurogenic communication disorders.  Its purpose is to
explore whether identifying differences avoids the failures in patient
management that result from ignoring them.
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		 SEMINAR ON ISSUES IN LOGICAL THEORY
			    Philosophy 396
			    Bernie Linsky
			   Visiting Scholar
		   University of Alberta, Edmonton
		      (linsky@csli.stanford.edu)
		 Thursday, 8 February, 3:45-5:30 p.m.
			     Cordura 100

Bernie Linsky will present material from "General Intensional Logic"
by C. Anthony Anderson (Chapter II.7 of the _Handbook of Philosophical
Logic_).
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			SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
		 Literary Theory and Symbolic Systems
			 Herbert Lindenberger
		  Comparative Literature and English
 		   Thursday, 8 February, 4:15 p.m.
			Building 60, Room 61G
         
This session will discuss Keats' poem "To Autumn" as a means of
demonstrating the relation of formal devices and semantic meaning in
poetry.  We will look at features such as metrics, syntax, and images
in order to help formulate ways of approaching what people call a
poem's "meaning."  Reading the (short) poem in advance will be
helpful, but not necessary.
         
Next week, 15 February: Why are Computer Programs so Complicated?, John
Lamping, Xerox PARC.
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		   PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
      The Philosophical Significance of Tarski's Theory of Truth
			     Jan Wolenski
		     The Jagiellonian University
			    Krakow, Poland
		    Friday, 9 February, 3:15 p.m.
			Building 90, Room 91A

No abstract available.
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		  LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
	      Symposium on Linking in Various Frameworks
		      Coordinator: K. P. Mohanan
		     (mohanan@csli.stanford.edu)
	Speakers: Joan Bresnan, Paul Kiparsky, and Peter Sells
       (bresnan@csli.stanford.edu, kiparsky@csli.stanford.edu,
		       sells@csli.stanford.edu)
		    Friday, 9 February, 3:30 p.m.
		   (to be continued on 23 February)
			     Cordura 100

We will use this Friday for presentations alone (no discussion, or at
least, not very much).  The audience is encouraged to raise questions
through email, which will be discussed in the colloquium on Friday, 23
February. 
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	    COMMONSENSE AND NONMONOTONIC REASONING SEMINAR
	  Six Lessons from Recent Work on the Frame Problem
			  Vladimir Lifschitz
		    Department of Computer Science
		       (val@sail.stanford.edu)
		    Monday, 12 February, 2:30 p.m.
		       Margaret Jacks Hall 252

By "recent work on the frame problem" I understand primarily Andrew
Baker's contribution to KR '89.  The six lessons are:

(1) Situations have a nontrivial theory even before actions are
    introduced.

(2) It is important to distinguish between arbitrary fluents and
    frame fluents.

(3) It is important to distinguish between situations and states.

(4) Circumscription should be extended to higher-order predicates.

(5) Formalizing commonsense knowledge may require the use of a
    conjunction of circumscriptions.

(6) It may be useful to reify physically impossible situations.
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			  PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP
			  The Germanic Foot
			     Aditi Lahiri
		   Tuesday, 13 February, 7:30 p.m.
			      Ventura 17

No abstract available.
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