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liia.u-strasbg.fr>!!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!!Please circulate and post among students !!! !!! We apologize if you receive this message more than once. !!! =============================================================================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands Deadline : March 15th, 1999 http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/esslli-fr.html We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99) organized by the University of Utrecht under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FOLLI) and located at the University of Utrecht in August 1999. We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'99 Student Session and appearance in the proceedings. =============================================================================== PURPOSE: This is going to be the fourth ESSLLI Student Session and it will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from their colleagues and fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI'99 Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates - before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before completion of the PhD degree. We will not accept papers co-authored by non-students. As in the previous editions, the ESSLLI'99 Student Session will consist of paper presentations. The ESSLLI'99 Student Session has its own timeslot in the school's schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). ============================================================================== REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic&Linguistics, Logic&Computation, Linguistics&Computation). The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI'99 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during ESSLLI'99, together with the readers of the courses. =============================================================================== FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references and a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith (1991) previously showed...". To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), the author(s)s'affiliation and complete address(s) a short (5 lines) summary and a specification of the subject area to which the paper belongs. The subject areas considered are: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic&Linguistics, Logic&Computation, and Linguistics & Computation. ============================================================================= MEDIA OF SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS: The student authors should submit their papers electronically to: amaliaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
VM.SC.EDU>FINAL CALL for Presentation Proposals (deadline March 15, 1999) The Role of Grammatical Functions in Transformational Syntax, A workshop at the 1999 LSA Linguistic Institute. Location of Workshop: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dates of Workshop: July 10-11, 1999 Organizers: William D. Davies (University of Iowa) and Stanley Dubinsky (University of South Carolina) This (NSF-funded) workshop will explore the place of grammatical functions (GFs) in transformational theories of syntax, which since Chomsky 1965 have held GFs such as subject and object are not primitives of the theory but are definable in terms of phrase structure configurations. Recent instantiations of these theories, such as Principles & Parameters and the Minimalist Program, have undergone revisions which incorporate principles utilizing GFs in a way that appears to admit their roles as primitives, as in the Extended Projection Principle, the introduction of functional phrase structure projections such as AgrS and AgrO, and other innovations. These innovations raise the fundamental question of whether or not GFs can indeed be configurationally defined on phrase structure representations. The workshop will bring together the work of leading researchers relating to these issues, including: * the ways in which GFs have been incorporated into current transformational theories; * whether unitary configurationally defined GFs can be identified in current transformational syntax; * if configurational definitions of GFs have been reduced to axioms of the theory, the degree to which these structural representations of GFs yield significant insights; * the inventory of GFs that must be recognized in the theory; * and whether all languages instantiate all projections involved in defining Gfs. The core workshop invited participants include: Alex Alsina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Mark Baker (Rutgers University), Chris Collins (Cornell University), Howard Lasnik (Connecticut University), Diane Massam (University of Toronto), James McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz), Frederick Newmeyer (University of Washington), Norvin Richards (Kanda University of International Studies), and Lisa Travis (McGill University). Currently, the workshop includes 8 invited presentations. Plans call for 6 to 8 additional presentations to be selected from proposals proposals submitted researchers interested in this topic. Presentations will be 35 minutes in length, leaving 20 minutes for questions and discussion. Further information is available at: www.cla.sc.edu/LING/faculty/dubinsky/GF-workshop.html Those interested in participating in this workshop should submit a two-page abstract (inclusive of data and references) in type no smaller than 12 point, with one inch margins all around. Abstracts that do not conform to these guidelines will not be considered. Please include with your abstract, your name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address. Abstracts should be submitted via e-mail to the following addresses: dubinskysMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue