Dates: September 20-21
Website: http://www.ugr.es/~fmmanriq/words&concepts.html
Organized by Research Group FFI2008-06421-C02 with funds from Micinn & Junta de Andalucía.
PROGRAM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
9.00 Welcome
9.15-10.30 Vyv Evans (Bangor): ‘ Words, concepts and meaning’
10.30-11.45 Gabriella Vigliocco (UC London): ‘Toward a theory of semantic representation’
11.45-12.15 Coffee break
12.15-13.30 Fernando Martínez-Manrique & Agustín Vicente (Granada & País Vasco): ‘Can a particular language be the vehicle of thought? Some thoughts on linguistic relativity’
13.30-14.45 Lunch
14.45-16.00 Emma Borg (Reading): ‘Minimal word meanings’
16.00-17.15 Begoña Vicente & Marjolein Groefsema (País Vasco & Hertfordshire): ‘Rethinking unarticulated constituents in cognitive pragmatics’
17.15-17.45 Coffee break
17.45-19.00 Stavros Assimakopoulos (Granada): ‘Mental mappings for public words: a cognitivist reanalysis’
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
9.15-10.30 Daniel Weiskopf (Georgia State): ‘Language variation and innate conceptual structure’
10.30-11.45 Eric Margolis (British Columbia): ‘Acquiring number concepts -What Language Can and Can’t Do’
11.45-12.15 Coffee break
12.15-13.30 Elisabetta Lalumera (Milano-Bicocca): ‘Words do not count. Numerals and natural number concepts’
13.30-14.45 Lunch
14.45-16.00 Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra): ‘Lexical and phrasal content from a distributional semantic perspective’
16.00-17.15 José Luis Liñán & Miguel Ángel Pérez Jiménez (Granada & Javeriana): ‘Sharing words, making concepts: Conversational updating and expressive record’
17.15-17.45 Coffee break
17.45-19.00 Daniel Casasanto (Max Planck Institute Nijmegen): ‘Experiential relativity’
21.00 Workshop dinner
Attendance is free.
Contact person: Fernando Martínez Manrique (
fmmanriq@ugr.es)