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let.rug.nl>First Announcement DISCOURSE PARTICLES, MODAL AND FOCAL PARTICLES AND ALL THAT STUFF... 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. 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
cogsci.ed.ac.uk>GOTALOG 2000 Fourth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Gothenburg University, Sweden June 15-17 2000 http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/ FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Gotalog 2000 will be the fourth in a series of workshops that aim at bringing together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, and psychology. This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the EU-sponsored project TRINDI http://www.ling.gu.se/research/projects/trindi/ , and will take place at Gothenburg University. It will include talks on a number of topics in the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including: - the semantics and pragmatics of anaphora - decision theory in pragmatics - information state update - dialogue games - the semantics and pragmatics of questions - spoken dialogue systems - turn-taking and grounding in dialogue as well as presentations by our four invited speakers: Jens Allwood (Gothenburg) Herbert Clark (Stanford) Paul Dekker (Amsterdam) Ronnie Smith (East Carolina) Information about participation and registration, an online registration form, and the preliminary program are available at http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/ The workshop is endorsed by SIGDIAL, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Discourse and Dialogue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local Arrangements The local organization chair is Robin Cooper. For questions about local arrangements, send email to trindiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue