LINGUIST List 11.2268

Thu Oct 19 2000

Calls: Adjacency/GLOW, Formal Pragmatics

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

Directory

1. Joao Costa, Adjacency - GLOW 2001 Colloquium
2. Anton Benz, FORMAL PRAGMATICS

2nd Call for Papers

24th GLOW Colloquium
Theme: Adjacency
Braga, Portugal
8-10 April 2001

Organization: Universidade do Minho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa &
Associacao Portuguesa de Linguistica

Workshops:
1. Language Variation and Change
2. Syntax-semantics Interface: nominal and temporal anaphora

University of Oporto
11 April 2001

Information available at
http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/clunl/glow/glow_index.htm

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Workshop on FORMAL PRAGMATICS - FINAL 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)
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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:
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 Nicholas Asher (Austin)
 Helen de Hoop (Utrecht)
 Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
 Arthur Merin (Munich)


Program Committee
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 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
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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.benzgerman.hu-berlin.de
 bart.geurtsphil.kun.nl


Important dates
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 - November 1st, 2000: Deadline for submission
 - January 15th, 2001: Notification of acceptance
 - March 16th to 18th: Conference


Conference Homepage
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 http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/asg/blutner/dialog/work2.html