LINGUIST List 10.369

Tue Mar 9 1999

Calls: Australian Ling. Society, Logic/Grammar

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. John Henderson, Australian Linguistic Society Conference
2. RLMG, RLMG last CFP

 
 Call for Papers

 AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTIC SOCIETY CONFERENCE 
 Perth, Western Australia
 September 28 - October 2 1999

Papers are invited in any area of contemporary linguistic research.
Selected papers will be published on the web as Proceedings of the
conference.

The conference will be held in Perth in spring, the season for Western
Australia's wildflowers and whale-watching. The conference venue, the
University of Western Australia, is on the beautiful Swan River next to
King's Park. Perth is a cosmopolitan city of around 1.5 million people and
combines a beautiful natural environment with an excellent climate.

Major speakers include Prof. Stephen R. Anderson (Yale) and Prof. Janet
Holmes (Victoria University, Wellington).

Details are provided at the conference website
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LingWWW/als99/ 
Web forms are provided there for registration and submission of abstracts.

For information not covered in the website please contact:

John Henderson
Centre for LInguistics
University of Western Australia
WA 6907 Australia
jkhcyllene.uwa.edu.au
ph. 61-8-9380-2870 (direct)
fax: 61-8-9380-1154


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Centre for Linguistics,
University of Western Australia
W.A. 6907
Ph. (08) 9380 2870 (direct)
Fax (08) 9380 1154

Dear colleagues, 

This is the last CFP for the ESSLLI99 workshop on Resource Logics and
Minimalist Grammars. Invited speakers have not yet been chosen, since
this depends in part on who will be participating in ESSLLI. Details
about the opportunity to submit papers for possible publication in the
new electronic journal "Language and Computation" will be provided to
authors with the notification of acceptance. As this last CFP comes
late, please send an email to rlmgirisa.fr if you intend to submit
something which is not yet fully ready to be sent.

Christian Retor & Edward Stabler

ESSLLI`99 workshop on
RESOURCE LOGICS AND MINIMALIST GRAMMARS
(deadline for submissions: March 15th 1999)
Utrecht, 16-20 August 1999

Organizers:
Christian Retor (IRISA, Rennes) 
Edward Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles)

URL: http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG 
E-mail: rlmgirisa.fr

A workshop held as part of the 11th European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information (ESSLLI`99), August 9-20 1999, Utrecht

Last call for papers

ESSLLI`99: The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language
and Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
It is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic,
Language and Information (FoLLI). Foundational, introductory and advanced
courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within six
areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation,
Computation and Language, Language and Logic. Previous summer schools have
been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and
elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and
forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the
interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-99 will
take place at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 9-20. In
its second week it will feature a worskshop on resource logics and
minimalist grammars. Its aim is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D.
students and other researchers to present and discuss their work on the
connection between minimalist grammars and resource logics.
 
WORKSHOP BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in connections
between resource-logical theories of grammar and the minimalist grammars of
the transformational tradition in syntax. A good understanding of these
connections will reveal substantial differences that can be debated, and the
prospects also look good for identifying a valuable common ground. In
particular, the rich descriptive tradition of transformational theory may
become more accessible to resource-logical frameworks, and the relatively
well-understood mathematical foundations of resource-logical frameworks may
stimulate a more sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of minimalist
grammars. Linear logic is a neat and well studied logic from a proof
theoretical perspective which is able to handle both logic for syntax (like
the Lambek calculus) and logic for semantics (like intuitionistic logic),
and it also appears to be a sensible framework for a logical treatment of
minimalist grammars.

This workshop aims to bring together PhD students and other researchers in
the respective traditions to explore these developments. Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:

 * applications of linear logic, multimodal categorial logic, and other
 resource logics to linguistic problems
 * formal and computational studies of minimalist and other generative
 grammars
 * studies of linguistic semantics from the perspective of either
 tradition
 * assessments of the common ground and differences among these approaches
 to language

WORKSHOP AIMS: This workshop aims to:

 * provide a setting for researchers from various traditions to present
 and discuss recent work on resource logics and minimalist grammars
 * facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers working in these
 respective areas
 * foster a spirit of collaborative research

CALL FOR PAPERS: Researchers in the area, including PhD students and young
researchers, are invited to submit short papers (between 8 and 12 pages
long) describing their thesis/research topic, approach and results. Talks
will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion/questions. Authors
are also encouraged to submit a list of topics they would like to see
discussed at the workshop. This will help to identify issues for discussion
and debate.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 1999

Submissions should be sent to: rlmgirisa.fr
Submissions will be accepted in the form of either PostScript or
self-contained LaTex.

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 1st 1998. The deadline
for receipt of revised papers to appear in the workshop proceedings is June 1st
1998.

WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will consist of five sessions of 90 minutes
each held over five days. There will be either two or three presentations at
each session with time for questions and discussion. It is hoped to have at
least one invited paper from a senior researcher working in the field.

PUBLICATION: After the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to submit
papers for possible publication in the new electronic journal "Language and
Computation" (http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/JLaC/), 
which is supported by Oxford University Press. There will be
more details in the next announcement.

REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for
ESSLLI-99.

IMPORTANT DATES:
March 15th, 99: Deadline for submissions
May 1st, 99: Notification of acceptance
June 1st, 99: Deadline for final copy
August 16th, 99: Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-99
please visit the ESSLLI-99 home page at http://esslli.let.uu.nl or send an
email to esslli99let.uu.nl .
For further information on the workshop visit the site of the workshop
http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG or send an email to rlmgirisa.fr