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CSLI Calendar, 17 May, vol. 5:28




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17 May 1990                     Stanford                       Vol. 5, No. 28
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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, 17 MAY 1990

12:00 noon		TINLunch
      Cordura 100	Logical Consequence and Model-Theoretic
			Consequence, II: Lessons and Perspectives
			Greg O'Hair
			Visiting Scholar from The Flinders University
			of South Australia
			(ohair@csli.stanford.edu)
			Abstract in last week's Calendar

 2:15 p.m.		CSLI Seminar
      Cordura 100	Controversies in Natural-Language Research 5
			led by Stanley Peters 
			(peters@csli.stanford.edu)
                        Title: Derivation vs. Constraints in Syntax
			Speakers: Joan Bresnan, Ivan Sag, Peter Sells
			(bresnan@csli.stanford.edu, sag@csli.stanford.edu,
			sells@csli.stanford.edu)
			Abstract in last week's Calendar
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	    CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, 24 MAY 1990

12:00 noon		TINLunch
      Cordura 100	Grammaticalization of Discourse Context:
			An HPSG Approach to Korean (and Japanese)
			Suk-Jin Chang
			Visiting Scholar from Seoul National University
			(chang@csli.stanford.edu)
			Abstract below

 2:15 p.m.		CSLI Seminar
      Cordura 100	Controversies in Natural-Language Research 6
			led by Stanley Peters 
			(peters@csli.stanford.edu)
			Title: Derivation vs. Constraints in Syntax
			Speakers: Joan Bresnan, Ivan Sag, Peter Sells
			(bresnan@csli.stanford.edu, sag@csli.stanford.edu,
			sells@csli.stanford.edu)
			Abstract below
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			 NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
	       Grammaticalization of Discourse Context:
	      An HPSG Approach to Korean (and Japanese)
			    Suk-Jin Chang

Discourse situations involving interpersonal relations and speech acts
of the discourse participants regulate the use of morpholexical forms
of certain grammatical categories in Korean and Japanese, including
speech (honorific) levels, sentence types, personal
pronouns/nonpronouns, nouns, and verbs.  Two discourse functions,
topic and focus, are also partially grammaticalized in these
languages: topic by topic markers (e.g., NUN in K and WA in J); focus
by stress, question words, or focus positions (in pseudo-cleft
constructions).  Grammaticalization of such contextual and functional
information is presented and elaborated in the general framework of
HPSG (Pollard and Sag 1987, 1990) and by way of broadening and
deepening its CONTEXT sort with psoas (or infons) made available from
situation semantics.
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		       NEXT WEEK'S CSLI SEMINAR
	     Controversies in Natural-Language Research 6
		 Derivation vs. Constraints in Syntax
		 Joan Bresnan, Ivan Sag, Peter Sells

We will have a "panel discussion" of issues arising out of the
previous weeks' presentations.
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			SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM
	   On the Self-Deconstruction of the Symbolic Order
			  Jean-Pierre Dupuy
		     French & Italian Department
			 Stanford University
		     Thursday, 17 May, 4:15 p.m.
			Building 60, Room 61G
         
Are French and American philosophies doomed to ignore each other
forever?  The notion of the "symbolic system" might provide a ground
on which to test the possibilities of cross-fertilization between
French thought and analytic philosophy.  I will focus on an aspect of
symbolic forms (e.g., social conventions and institutions) that is
rarely discussed: the fact that they are moral, earmarked for
decomposition and, ultimately, for destruction.

Among the topics I may broach in this perspective are the following:
the meaning of a text, the nature of literary conventions and the
liar's paradox; social hierarchies in religious societies and rituals
of the carnival type; the paradox of self-amendment in the philosophy
of law; the logic of Derridian deconstructions; the notion of
"reputation" in the reflections on the foundations of game theory; the
paradox of backward induction; the concept of "convention" in the
works of D. K. Lewis and J. M. Keynes.
         
Next week: The Genesis of Symbolic Forms in Human Culture, Rene'
Girard, French & Italian Department, Stanford University.
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		 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION INTEREST GROUP
		 The Acquisition of Case in Japanese
				 and
	     The Acquisition of Transitivity in Japanese
			     (two talks)
			   Hiromi Morikawa
		       Department of Psychology
			 Stanford University
		      Friday, 18 May, 12:00 noon
		     Building 100, Greenberg Room

No abstract available.
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		   PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
	  The Ethics of Foregoing Life-Sustaining Treatment
			   Howard Ducharme
			 University of Akron
		      Friday, 18 May, 3:15 p.m.
			Building 90, Room 91A

No abstract available.
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		  LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
			Title to be announced
			      Bill Poser
		      (poser@csli.stanford.edu)
		      Friday, 18 May, 3:30 p.m.
			     Cordura 100

No abstract available.
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			  PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP
	      On Syllabic Nuclei in Nilotic and Germanic
			 Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
			  Leiden University
		   (currently visiting UC Berkeley)
		      Tuesday, 22 May, 7:30 p.m.
			      Ventura 17

In recent studies on nonlinear phonology, it has been claimed that
languages cannot have both falling and rising diphthongs, and that
nuclei with three x-positions (in syllable templates) are excluded.
Western Nilotic languages such as Dinka and Nuer have been claimed to
have both rising and falling diphthongs, while the same languages have
a phonemically distinctive three-way vowel length distinction.  The
main purpose of my talk will be to investigate how well the
theoretical claims hold in the case of Western Nilotic, and to what
extent they help us in understanding how the syllable nucleus in
Western Nilotic is structured.  I will compare the results with
observations made on syllable nuclei in dialects of German, as well as
Dutch and in Frisian.  if time allows me, I will also look at rhythmic
rules determining vowel length in Southern Nilotic, and mora-counting
in Eastern Nilotic.
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		   PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
			 Negotiator Cognition
			     Max Bazerman
		       Northwestern University
		     Wednesday, 23 May, 3:45 p.m.
			Building 420, Room 050

No abstract available.
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			   NEW PUBLICATIONS

The following reports have recently been published.  They may be
obtained, or a full list of CSLI publications acquired, by writing to
Dikran Karagueuzian, CSLI, Ventura Hall, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305-4115, or publications@csli.stanford.edu.

CSLI-90-138
Discourse Structure and Performance Efficiency in Interactive and
Noninteractive Spoken Modalities 
Sharon L. Oviatt and Philip R. Cohen
$5.50

CSLI-90-139
The Contributing Influence of Speech and Interaction on Human
Discourse Patterns
Sharon L. Oviatt and Philip R. Cohen
$3.50

CSLI-90-140
The Connectionist Construction of Concepts
Adrian Cussins
$6.00

CSLI-90-141
Sixth Year Report