Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom kmj21@cam.ac.uk

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Selected conference presentations and talks

• 2011. 'Default Semantics and Selected Applications'. DTAL Colloquium, University of Cambridge.
• 2011. 'Representing beliefs de se'. Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 4 (SPE 4). Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (invited plenary).
• 2011. 'Speaker intentions and de se beliefs'. Workshop Focus on the Speaker, 12 International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester (invited).
• 2011. 'Minimalism and contextualism about de se belief ascription'. International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics PhiLang, Lodz (keynote).
• 2011. 'Context: Gricean intentions vis-a-vis two-dimensional semantics'. Conference Meaning, Context and Cognition, University of Lodz (invited plenary).
• 2010. 'Efficiency and default interpretations'. Colloque interdisciplinaire Communication et contexte, Universite Paris-Sorbonne (invited).
• 2010. 'On pragmatic compositionality'. Workshop Interactional Foundations for Language, Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, University of Leeds.
• 2010. 'Radical contextualism'. Workshop Contextualism/Minimalism Debate, University of Cambridge (invited).
• 2010. 'Time as modality: A radical contextualist account'. 6th Philosophers' Rally, Lodz. Also presented at the Institute of Logic Seminar, University of Lodz.
• 2010. 'Time, modal supervenience, and pragmatic compositionality'. Workshop on Time and Tense, University of St Andrews (invited).
• 2010. 'Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance interpretation'. Space and Time Across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures STALDAC 2010, Cambridge.
• 2009. 'Cancellability criterion for the primary/secondary and explicit/implicit meaning distinctions'. Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting, Edinburgh.
• 2009. 'Speaking about time: Contextual inferences and pragmatic defaults'. 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne (keynote).
• 2009. 'Salient meanings, default meanings, and automatic enrichment'. 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne.
• 2009. Discussant's summary talk for the panel 'Context and contexts: parts meet whole?'. 11th International Pragmatics Conference, Melbourne (invited).
• 2009. 'Time and probability: a contextualist semantic account'. Workshop on Default Semantics, University of Neuchâtel (invited).
• 2009. 'Time in language and thought'. International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics PhiLang, Lodz (keynote)
• 2008. 'The modal supervenience of the concept of time'. 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.
• 2008. 'Meaning merger: An object of study for contrastive semantics and pragmatics'. 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference, Leuven, Belgium (keynote).
• 2008. 'Grice and post-Griceans on pragmatic inference'. Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai (keynote).
• 2008. 'Contextualism vs. semantic minimalism'. Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai (keynote).
• 2008. 'Salient meanings: the characteristics of default interpretations'. Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai (keynote).
• 2008. 'Principles of Default Semantics'. Summer Institute of the Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association and Mouton de Gruyter, Intercultural Pragmatics, Shanghai (keynote).
• 2008. 'Contextualism vs. semantic minimalism'. 2nd Workshop on Methods in Theoretical Linguistics, Lodz (invited).
• 2007. 'Post-Gricean pragmatics and Frege's Legacy'. International Conference Structures Across Cultures, Belgrade (invited plenary).
• 2007. 'Psychologism, Frege, and Post-Gricean pragmatics'. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (invited).
• 2007. 'Psychological explanations in Gricean pragmatics: An argument from cultural 'common ground'. 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Goeteborg (invited).
• 2007. 'Composing utterance meaning: An interface between pragmatics and psychology' (with A. Sysoeva). 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Goeteborg (invited).
• 2006. 'Time as acceptability of events'. Chronos 7: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality, Antwerp (invited plenary).
• 2006. 'Towards a typology of defaults in utterance interpretation'. LAGB Annual Meeting, University of Newcastle.
• 2006. 'Default meanings: Semantic scales for futurity and modality'. Cambridge University Linguistic Society (invited).
• 2005. 'Default meanings for belief reports'. University of Oxford (invited).
• 2005. 'Communicating about the past in a tenseless language: Defaults for temporality in Thai' (with J. Srioutai). Third International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, Shanghai.
• 2005. 'Default meanings'. University of Nanjing, China (invited).
• 2005. 'Merger representations for attitude constructions'. Workshop Pragmatics, Multidimensional Semantics, and Grammar, LAGB Annual Meeting, University of Cambridge.
• 2005. 'The feature TENSE and the Simple Present in truth-conditional pragmatics'. 9th International Pragmatics Conference, Riva del Garda.
• 2005. 'Variadic function and pragmatics-rich representation structures for propositional attitude reports'. ILLC Workshop The Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poreba and Semantics Workshop, Free University of Brussels (invited).
• 2004. 'Future time reference: Truth-conditional pragmatics or semantics of acts of communication?'. Chronos 6: International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality, Geneva.
• 2004. 'Between semantics and pragmatics'. Workshop on Methods in Theoretical Linguistics, 2nd International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, University of Lodz (invited).
• 2003. 'The modality of the future: A Default-Semantics account'. Workshop on the Logic and Semantics of Modality, 14th Amsterdam Colloquium in Language, Logic and Information, University of Amsterdam.
• 2003. 'The modality of will: a Default-Semantics account'. LAGB Autumn Meeting, University of Oxford.
• 2003. 'Default Semantics: theory and some applications'. Workshop on the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Trondheim, Norway (invited).
• 2003. 'The modality of will: an argument for default interpretations'. Workshop on Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, LSA Summer Institute, Michigan State University (invited).
• 2002. 'Default Semantics'. 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Germanic, Romance and Baltic Linguistic Studies, University of Vilnius (invited plenary).
• 2002. 'Default Semantics: intentions and conventions in utterance interpretation'. Perspectives into the 21st Century: International Linguistics Conference, Athens (invited plenary).
• 2002. 'Default Semantics'. New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, University of Lodz (invited plenary).
• 2001. 'Presupposition, anaphora, and focus: a case for semantic defaults'. LAGB Autumn Meeting, University of Reading.
• 2000. 'On translating what is said: tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmatics'. 2nd International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and University of Cambridge.
• 2000. 'Against ambiguity and underspecification: the interface between semantics and pragmatics'. 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Budapest.
• 1999. 'Default De Re and the referential intention in belief ascription'. International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Stockholm.
• 1998. 'The semantics/pragmatics interface: evidence from definite descriptions'. 6th International Pragmatics Conference, Reims.
• 1998. 'Tertium comparationis in contrastive semantics and pragmatics'. International Conference on Germantic and Baltic Linguistic Studies and Translation, University of Vilnius (invited plenary).
• 1997. 'Propositional attitude sentences in Discourse Representation Theory'. LAGB Spring Meeting, University of Edinburgh and Fifth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, San Sebastian, Spain.
• 1995. 'Referring expressions: intentionality and intensionality'. 2nd Amsterdam-Lodz Duo Colloquium on Translation and Meaning, Lodz (invited).
• 1995. 'The Default De Re Principle'. Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, San Sebastian, Spain.
• 1994. 'Vehicles of thought and the horizon: Application of Husserl's ideas to the problem of referential ambiguity in oratio obliqua'. Henry Sweet Society Colloquium, University of Sussex.
• 1994. 'Default De Re for belief reports'. Information Technology Research Institute, Brighton (invited).
• 1994. 'Relevance and infinity'. First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, State University of New York, Buffalo. Also University of Oxford (invited) and University of Surrey (invited).
• 1993. 'Typology of contrastive studies'. University of Brighton.
• 1992. 'Belief ascription'. First Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, University of Manchester.
• 1992. 'Beliefs de re and de dicto: evidence from English and Polish'. LAGB Spring Meeting, University of Brighton. Also University of Sussex, 1993 (invited).

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