Program

10:00 - 13:00 Tutorial: “Natural language ontology: syntactic and semantic perspectives” (W. Hinzen & F. Moltmann)

14:30 - 16:00 Tutorial: “Applied ontology and analytic metaphysics” (N. Guarino)
16:00 - 16:20 Break
16:20 - 17:20 Invited Lecture: John Collins, “Semantics & the World: on Two Conceptions of Fit”
17:20 - 18:00 C. Poletto, J. Garzonio, S. Rossi, C. Covazzi, C. Gianollo, I. Caloi, M. Segui and E. Sanfelici, “Classifier-like ontological categories: a view inside quantifiers, wh-items and n-words”
18:00 - 18:40 H. De Vries, G. Tsoulas, R. Folli, A. Renans and J. Romoli, “Mass/count ontology: arguments for two distinct domains”

10:00 - 11:00 Invited Lecture: Boban Arsenijevic, “The tiny ontology of the ‘greater syntax’”
11:00 - 11:20 Break
11:20 - 12:00 J. Miller, “The Metaphysical Status of Linguistic Relations”

14:30 - 15:30 Invited Lecture Laure Vieu, “Lexical semantics meets ontology: Inherent polysemy and complex categories”
15:30 - 16:10 S. Loebner, “Goldman’s act-levels, natural language ontology, and lexical verb semantics”
16:10 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:10 T. Martin and U. Reichard, “The ontology of the v phase”
17:10 - 17:50 B. Vaassen “Pragmatics, Semantics and Negative Causation”
17:50 - 18:50 Invited Lecture Gillian Ramchand, “Events, Event Types and Syntactic Structures”

10:00 - 11:00 Invited Lecture Bjorn Jespersen, “Iterated privation, technical malfunction, and positive predication”
11:00 - 11:40 A. Vicente and M. Ortega-Andrés, “The ontology of dot objects”
11:40 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 12:40 N. Irmak, “The Problem of Creation and Abstract Artifacts”

14:00 - 15:00 Invited Lecture Nicola Guarino, “Relationships and events”
15:00 - 15:40 P. De Brabanter and A. Thuns, “The implicit ontology of semantic deference”