Conditionals Workshop Program

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Oct 6. (Sat)

9:00-1200
Barbara Dancygier: Predictive and epistemic reasonings in conditionals
Handout
1330-1500
Shigeru Sakahara: Antecedent-internal WH-phrases
1510-1640
Yukinori Takubo: Counterfactual conditionals as biconditionals: the case of 'tokoro-da' conditionals in Japanese
Handout

Oct 7. (Sun)

900-1200
Eve Sweetser: Conditionality, embedding, and viewpoint
Handout
1330-1500
Setsuko Arita & Stefan Kaufmann: Tense and modality in conditionals: The case of Japanese '-tara'
1510-1640
Hiroshi Yama: Hindsight bias and holistic thinking: A cross-cultural study

Oct 8. (Mon)

900-1200
Gilles Fauconnier: Conditionals, Causal Compression, and Conceptual Mappings
Handout
1330-1500
Seiko Fujii: Epistemic stances and modal expressions in Japanese predictive/epistemic conditionals
1510-1640
general discussion

Conference Venue

Collaboration room 1. Building 18.
University of Tokyo. Komaba.