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german.hu-berlin.de>- ------------------------------------------- Workshop on FORMAL PRAGMATICS - CALL FOR PAPERS Date: 16. to 18. March 2001, Location: Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Organised by Anton Benz (Berlin) Reinhard Blutner (Berlin), and Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen) - ------------------------------------------- Although formal pragmatics has a long tradition, it has generally been in the shadow of formal semantics. But recently there has been a rapid progress in the field, as witness the development of new approaches such as: - Optimality theory (OT) - Game and decision Theory - Theory of distributed Systems - Logic-based approaches - Extensions of dynamic semantics - Extensions of classical pragmatic approaches This workshop offers an opportunity for the discussion of new approaches to formal pragmatics. We invite submissions related but not limited to the following topics: - Optimality and interpretation - Information and relevance - Game theory and communication - Conversational implicature - Presupposition - Focus - Information update in dialogue - Dialogue acts and their representation Invited Speakers: - --------------- Nicholas Asher (Austin) Helen de Hoop (Utrecht) Laurence R. Horn (Yale) Arthur Merin (Munich) Program Committee - --------------- Nicholas Asher (Austin) Anton Benz (Berlin) Reinhard Blutner (Berlin) Bart Geurts (Berlin/Nijmegen) Helen de Hoop (Utrecht) Laurence R. Horn (Yale) Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Arthur Merin (Munich) Submission format - --------------- We invite submissions of abstracts of maximum 4 page length (a4, 10pt, including bibliography), accompanied by a separate sheet indicating name, address and affiliation of the author(s) together with the title of the abstract, to be addressed to: Anton Benz Projekt Dialogsemantik Humboldt Universit�t Berlin Prenzlauer Promenade 149-152 Room 521/522 13189 Berlin Germany Electronical submissions are highly encouraged (MS Word, ps, pdf, or dvi), and may be sent to one of the following addresses: toni.benzMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
let.rug.nl>Second Announcement DISCOURSE PARTICLES, MODAL AND FOCAL PARTICLES AND ALL THAT STUFF... Abstracts due: September 1st, 2000 The Department of Germanic Languages of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Linguistic Society of Belgium invite papers for a two day international conference on PARTICLES. The conference will take place at the Belgian Science Foundation, 5 Rue Egmontstraat 5, B 1050 Brussels, December 8-9, 2000, and receives financial support from NWO and FWO, the Dutch and Belgian Organizations for Scientific Research. CONFERENCE TOPIC The conference focusses on particles in a broad sense, i.e. all lexical elements that do not contribute to the propositional content of the sentence and/or utterance, including what has been referred to in the literature as apposition markers, attitude markers, connecteurs phatiques, connecteurs pragmatiques, discourse markers, discourse particles, focus adverbs, focus particles, gliederungs-signale, inference particles, marqueurs de la reformulation paraphrastique, marqueurs de structuration de la conversation, modal particles, non-referential indexes, phatic connectives, pragmalexeme, pragmatic expressions, pragmatic markers, punctors, redecharakterisierende adverbiale, utterance particles, void pragmatic connectives, etc. A non-exhaustive list of topics to be addressed during the conference might be: syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects of particles; particles in cross-linguistic and typological perspective; particles in translation; particles in the light of natural language processing; particles and text structure; particles as part of the grammaticalisation processes. INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed) AD FOOLEN (Catholic University of Nijmegen) MAJ-BRITT MOSEGAARD HANSEN (University of Copenhagen) HARALD WEYDT (Europa University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Inge Callebaut, Free University of Brussels Piet Van de Craen, Free University of Brussels Ad Foolen, Catholic University of Nijmegen Ton van der Wouden, Universities of Groningen and Leiden Frans Zwarts, University of Groningen COSTS Participation costs: Euro 75 (BEF 3025/NLG 160), including documentation, reception, the Saturday 3 course lunch and coffee breaks. ACCOMMODATION A limited number of rooms are available at the Science Foundation. Reservations will be made on a first come, first served basis. Furthermore, a list of reasonably priced hotels will be made available. ABSTRACTS Please send an anonymous 1 page abstract (Times 12) for a 20 minute presentation, preferably in electronic format (RTF, ASCII, HTML or Postscript) both to vdwoudenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue