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cogsci.ed.ac.uk>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline for submission: March 30, 2001) ESSLLI Workshop on Information Stucture, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ivana/esslli01-wsh/ August 20-24, 2001 Helsinki (Finland) ESSLLI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli The workshop is endorsed by SIGSEM: http://www.sigsem.org/ and SIGdial: http://www.sigdial.org/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% BRIEF MISSION STATEMENT: - ---------------------- This workshop aims to provide a forum for recent research on interactions between information structure (as a component of sentence-level semantics), discourse structure and discourse-level semantics. We hope that the participants will concentrate on investigating the interactions between IS and DS, with the goal of understanding how sentence-level semantic devices that make up IS symbiotically serve the needs of discourse cohesion and coherence. We seek contributions advancing beyond descriptive frameworks towards an explanatory account of how IS and DS, in whatever framework, interact to refer to and update a dynamically evolving representation of discourse context. The submitted papers will be refereed by the PC. See http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ivana/esslli01-wsh/ for more details. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: - -------------- Enric Vallduvi (Dept de Traduccio, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, http://www.upf.es/) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: - -------------------- Full papers addressing the above issues are solicited, not exceeding 5000 words including references. Each paper must contain a 5-10 lines abstract. A postscript or pdf version of the paper should be submitted (zipped) by e-mail to ivanaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
zas.gwz-berlin.de>Call for papers CONFERENCE ON THE ACQUISITION OF VERB GRAMMAR AND VERB ARGUMENTS Zentrum f�r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universalienforschung und Typologie, Berlin 15-17 November 2001 Organizers: Dagmar Bittner, Natalia Gagarina, Insa Guelzow It has often been proposed that children begin the process of language acquisition with a special emphasis on the verb or on verb-like structures. Whether or not this could be proved cross-linguistically in detail it could be assumed that the acquisition of the verb and of its grammar plays a central role in early language acquisition. In this conference we hope to bring together researchers with an interest in one of the following aspects which we regard as related to the acquisition of the grammar of the verb: - finiteness - verb inflection - word order of the verb and verbal arguments - subjects and objects - argument structure - case inflection Cross-linguistic analysis of these processes will help to draw attention on the details of the single processes and shed light on their interrelatedness in early language acquisition. Furthermore they should provide insight into the impact of particular target languages on these processes while at the same time leading to a better understanding of the general cognitive aspects of the acquisition of the basic grammatical structure of utterances. Papers on any of the topics mentioned above dealing with first language acquisition in mono- and bilingual children between 1 to 3 years of age are welcome. Papers focussing on interrelations among some of these aspects are especially encouraged. Abstracts should be up to 500 words in length and should outline the research question as well as the language(s) and the age range of children studied. Three copies of abstracts, two anonymous, should be sent by electronic or regular mail to Insa Guelzow or Natalia Gagarina by June 30st, 2001. If you submitting electronically, please include the abstract in the body of the message (do not send attachments!). You will be informed by the mid of July of acceptance. Please send your abstracts to: Insa Guelzow: guelzowMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue