Indexicality Workshop

Workshop on Indexicals, Speech Reports, and Logophors
Harvard Hall 104, Harvard University
Saturday, November 20th, 2004

A Harvard-MIT-UConn joint effort

8.30-9.00 Breakfast

9.00-10.00 Oluseye Adesola (Rutgers): A-bar Dependencies in Logophoric Contexts [comment: C.-T. James Huang (Harvard)]

10.00-11.00 Peggy Speas (UMass): Person and Indexicality [comment: Irene Heim (MIT)]

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.30 Paul Portner (Georgetown): Instructions for Interpretation as Separate Performatives [comment: Chris Potts (UMass)]

12.30-1.00 General Discussion

1.00 -2.30 Lunch

2.30-3.30 Yael Sharvit (UConn): Pronouns in free indirect discourse [comment: Philippe Schlenker (UCLA/ Jean Nicod)]

3.30-4.00 Coffee Break

4.00-5.00 Chris Potts (UMass): The dimensions of quotation [comment: Kai von Fintel (MIT)]

5.00-6.00 Francois Recanati (Jean Nicod/Harvard): Indexicality and context-shifting [comment: Bob Stalnaker (MIT)]

6.00-6.30 General Discussion

7.00 Dinner (Border Cafe)

Each talk will be 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes directed comment and 15 minutes general discussion.

Come and join us.

[The workshop website looks out of whack on some systems/browsers. I'm not sure whether it's going to get fixed.]