Professional Activities

CONFERENCES and COLLOQUIA (since 1999)

 

 

2011                  Conjunctions vs. contextualizers workshop, Charles University, Prague

                         Relational and independent and conjunctions

2011                  Lattice Research Laboratory, Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris

                         Pragmatics and grammar: More pragmatics or more grammar? (invited)

2011                 Specification in context project, Stuttgart University, Germany
a) Some somes are quantifiers (invited)

                        b) Most somes are not quantifiers (invited)

2011                 Conference on form and meaning, Sorbonne, Paris
The semantics and pragmatics of or constructions (invited speaker)

2011                 Hebrew Language Colloquium, Haifa University
All kinds of meanings: xaval al ha=zman (in Hebrew)

2010                 Conference on competing motivations, Leipzig, Germany
Or constructions: Monosemy versus polysemy, encoding versus inferencing

2010                 Linguistics Colloquium, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
The semantics and pragmatics of or Constructions

2010                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
How (not) to use discourse in semantic arguments: The case of scalar quantifiers

2010                 Linguistic Evidence 2010, Tübingen University, Germany,
Poster: Testing the boundaries: Scalarity and the argument from discourse

2010                 Workshop: Reference and accessibility (invited speaker), Stuttgart University, Germany
Reference in three keys

2009                 Hebrew Language Colloquium, TAU, Israel
Pragmatics and grammar in Pragmatics and grammar (in Hebrew)

2009                 Cognitive Science UC San Diego, USA
Or, or something: Constructing categories on the fly

2008                 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
What use is or?

2008                 Workshop on the annotation of animacy and information status Northwestern University, Chicago, USA,
Invited participant

2008                 CSDL, Cleveland, USA,
The reflexive construction

2008                 Linguistics Colloquium, Stanford University, USA,
Or constructions: Meaning and use

2008                 New Reflections on grammaticalization, Leuven, Belgium
The intransitivization of English reflexive constructions

2008                 A conference in memory of Professor Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Xaval al ha-zman (‘It’s a shame on the time’): In memory of Tanya Reinhrart

2008                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Or constructions: Meaning and use

2006                 Penn Linguistics Colloquium, U.O. Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA,
Implicated, explicated or lexical?: The case of most

2006                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Two strategies in interpreting and conjunctions, or, the nonunitary status of inferred interpretations

2006                 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Looking for asses and finding kingdom: The case of reflexive pronouns

2006                 Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language (invited speaker), Berlin, Germany
Reference: Maxi-grammar, mini-grammar

2006                 Bar Ilan Colloquium, Ramat Gan, Israel,
Choosing the proper status for interpretations: The case of an upper bound on most

2005                 Winter LSA, San Francisco USA, Organizer: A 3 hour symposium on
Scalars and the semantics-pragmatics interface: the problem of most

2005                 Winter LSA, San Francisco, USA,
Majority profiled: a circumbounded analysis of most

2005                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
The rise and potential fall of English reflexives

2005                 Experimental Pragmatics workshop, Cambridge University, Britain,
Most: What you see is what you get

2004                 New Developments in linguistic pragmatics (invited plenary speaker), Lodz, Poland,
Most: Redrawing the semantic/pragmatic borderline

2004                 ICAME, Verona, Italy,
Reflexives in Present-Day English: Coexistence of past, present and future

2003                 Where Semantics meets pragmatics workshop, East Lansing, USA,
Most: Reversing some of the roles of semantics and pragmatics

2003                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Most: Lexical semantic and pragmatic aspects

2003                 ICLC, La Rioja, Spain,
Most: Semantic and pragmatic aspects

2003                 BLS, UC Berkeley, USA,
Most: Frequency, semanticization and GCI

2002                 ìùåï åçáøä, àåð' ú"à (Language and Society, Tel Aviv University),
 òì äöåøê áîòî"ã: îåñø äùëì î'àå' äàðâìé
(On the need for a corpus of spoken Hebrew: Drawing the moral from English or)

2002                 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Most: A 'just that' lexical semantic analysis

2002                 ICAME, Göteborg, Sweden,
What does(n't) or mean?

2002                 Hebrew University Colloquium, Jerusalem, Israel,
Most: Lexical semantic and pragmatic aspects

2002                 BLS, UC Berkeley, USA,
Prenominal possessive NPs, Discourse functions and discourse profiles

2001                 Reference and coherence workshop (Invited Speaker), Utrecht University, Holland,
Discourse functions, discourse profiles and reference

2001                 LISO Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Privileged interactional interpretations

2001                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Reference and approaches to the grammar-pragmatics interface

2001                 Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Reference and Pragmatics

2000                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Functional levels of interpretation in interaction

2000                 CSDL, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Salient, linguistic and interactional meanings: The demise of a unique literal meaning

2000                 Corpus linguistics and the study of Modern Hebrew (symposium, invited speaker),
Emory University Atlanta, USA,
Why would a pragmatist need a Hebrew corpus?

1999                 PRAGMA, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Against a unique literal meaning

1999                 PRAGMA (a 3 part panel), Tel Aviv University, Israel Organizer (with Jonathan Berg): Literal meaning

1999                 Linguistics Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, USA,
Cognitive universals and the distribution of resumptive pronouns

1999                 ICLC, Stockholm, Sweden,
On the similarity between linguistic and extralinguistic constraints

1999                 CSDL, Emory University Atlanta, USA,
Cognitive universals and the distribution of resumptive pronouns

 

 

 

 

 

 

MIRA ARIEL, Ph.D.

Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, 69978

Phone No.: 972-3-6405026; Fax No.: 972-3-5221044

Email:  mariel@post.tau.ac.il

Site:     http://www.tau.ac.il/~mariel