Workshop on the Semantics/Syntax of Possessive Constructions

May 6-8, 2002, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This workshop is organized contiguous to, but independent of the FASL 11 conference (May 3-5; for details of FASL 11, please refer to the conference's website), and is an attempt to bring together researchers working on the semantics/syntax of possessive/genitive constructions. For a list (neither exclusive nor exhaustive) of kinds of questions of interest for the workshop, please refer to Barbara H. Partee's NSF grant description.

NEW!: If you'd like to post your handout on our web page, please send us a copy! Semanticists are also invited to post drafts of their paper on the .

The guidelines for contributors have been emailed out to all presenters. They are also available here in various formats: [html] [pdf] [txt]

Chris Barker took quite a few pictures during the workshop; find them here.
Other photographers are also more than welcome to share their pictures with the rest of the participants (follow same procedure as the one for big attachments).

Abstracts: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/PossessiveWorkshop/pages/abstracts.html
Accommodations: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/FASL11/pages/accommodations.html
[Call for abstracts:  http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/PossessiveWorkshop/pdf/Abstract call.pdf]
Dining: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/FASL11/pdf/dining guide.pdf
Guidelines for Contributors: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/PossessiveWorkshop/pages/guidelines.html    [new!]
Maps: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/PossessiveWorkshop/pages/maps.html
Pictures: http://mendon.ucsd.edu/Poss/
Program: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/PossessiveWorkshop/pages/program.html
Registration: http://ww.umass.edu/linguist/events/PossessiveWorkshop/pages/registration.html
Travel info: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/FASL11/pages/directions.html

INVITED SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)

Chris Barker (University of California, San Diego)
Per Anker Jensen (University of Southern Denmark) and Carl Vikner (Copenhagen Business School)
Yury A. Lander (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Vladimir Borschev (VINITI and UMass, Amherst) and Barbara H. Partee (UMass, Amherst)  
Ekaterina Rakhilina (VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences)
Gilbert Rappaport (University of Texas, Austin)
Gianluca Storto (UCLA)


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Workshop on Possessives and publication of selected papers is made possible by the following sources of financial support: 

The Department of Linguistics
The Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts
The Vice Chancellor for Research

A grant from the National Science Foundation to Partee and Borschev for a project entitled "Integration of Lexical and Compositional Semantics: Genitives in English and Russian", research trust funds generated from the overhead on that grant, and funds from the Dean's Research Allowance to Partee.

Invaluable non-financial support and assistance from students, faculty, and staff of the UMass Linguistics Department is also gratefully acknowledged.

Questions?

        E-mail: poss@linguist.umass.edu   
        Telephone: 413-545-0889
        Fax: 413-545-2792

Organizers: Barbara H. Partee, Ji-Yung Kim, and Yura Lander

Last updated: July 30, 2003
URL: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/events/PossessiveWorkshop/PossessiveWorkshop.html
 

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