The VAAG Project (Vagueness, Approximation and Granularity) will hold its first workshop on June 25-26 in Berlin. The workshop will take place at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Schützenstr. 18, Room 403.

The program for the workshop is displayed below. All are invited to attend the talks. Sessions listed as "VAAG Members" are intended for members of the VAAG project.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

9:30-10:00	Organizers	Welcome and Introduction
10:00-10:45	Peter Gärdenfors (Lund)	Semantics, conceptual spaces and the meeting of minds
10:45-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:45	Manfred Krifka (Berlin)	Title TBD
11:45-12:30	Galit Sassoon (Amsterdam)	"More", "twice", and measurement theory's classification of scalar properties
12:30-2:00	LUNCH BREAK
2:00-2:45	Stephanie Solt (Berlin)	A scale-based approach to "most" and "more than half"
2:45-3:30	Ewan Klein (Edinburgh)	Building a model-checker for sentences with vague predicates
3:30-3:45	COFFEE BREAK
3:45-5:00	VAAG Members	Discussion of recent literature on vagueness, approximation and granularity
7:00	Workshop Dinner

Friday, June 26, 2009

9:30-10:15	Marijan Palmovic (Zagreb)	Preliminary results of an ERP and eye-tracking experiment in vagueness
10:15-10:45	Manfred Krifka, Stephanie Solt & Nicole Gotzner (Berlin)	Update on granularity experiments
10:45-11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:45	Sverker Sikström & Rasmus Bååth (Lund)	Measuring vague concepts with semantic spaces
11:45-1:00	VAAG Members	Discussion of potential applications of psycholinguistic techniques
1:00-2:30	LUNCH BREAK
2:30-4:00	VAAG Members	Individual meetings
4:00-6:00	VAAG Members	Next steps for VAAG (location TBD)