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let.uu.nl>Conference Announcement Call for Papers TiLT 2001 The first conference on Tools in Linguistic Theory will take place at the Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS July 6----July 8 2001 Abstracts are invited for 7 presentations on theoretical syntax. Deadline for abstract receipt: Monday April 16th, 2001 Notification of acceptance: Monday April 30th, 2001 The conference is specifically concerned with foundational issues in theoretical syntax. The emphasis is on a strong reading of the term 'theoretical': issues directly concerned with the model itself (the 'theory'), and the tools needed to further develop the model. Issues include the nature of the primitive syntactic objects, and the fundamental principles governing the combinatorics of these objects (see the statement of purpose at our web site for more background and details). The format of the conference is very much workshop-like with ample opportunity for discussion (during and after presentations) in a setting which facilitates effective informal interaction. The conference will have 14 presentations. 7 presentations will be given by invited speakers. Invited speakers will include: - Michael Brody - Chris Collins - Samuel Epstein - John Frampton - Dominique Sportiche - Ed Stabler - Edwin Williams 7 presentations will be selected on the basis of the submitted abstracts. Selected presentations will be 45 minutes including discussion (and interaction during presentation). Selected speakers will be offered free meals and lodging during the conference and may expect to be reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses. Authors should limit themselves to one single and one joint abstract. Abstracts should be at most two pages long, in a 12 point font with 1-inch margins. They may be sent either electronically (name, address, affiliation in the body, the abstract itself anonymous; WordPerfect, PDF, or MSWord attachments) or by regular mail (1 copy with name, address and affiliation, 5 anonymous copies). E-mailed abstracts should be sent to tiltMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
let.uu.nl>2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Perspectives on Aspect Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Utrecht, December 12 - 14 2001 The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS will host an international conference on aspect. The aim of the conference is to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as develop perspectives on the future development of the field. The conference will revolve around three themes, distributed over three days: Formal theory formation, New theoretical insights and Typological variation. Day 1: Formal theory formation On this day leading theories on aspect will be compared and related to each other. Henk Verkuyl will give the opening lecture in which he presents a survey of the main features in the aspectual theories of the past decennia and the different choices made by theorists. Invited speakers of this day will be: David Dowty, Manfred Krifka, Marc Moens / Mark Steedman. After the presentations Hans Kamp will chair a forum discussion. Day 2: New theoretical insights The topic of this day will be the future development of research in the domain of aspect and tense. Alice ter Meulen will give the opening lecture on new perspectives that are emerging. Proponents of the new generation of aspect researchers, Hana Filip, Chris Pi��n and Gillian Ramchand, will present their contributions. Day 3: Typological variation The leading idea for the third day's program is to establish a connection between theoretical and typological research. Invited speakers for this day are �sten Dahl and Emmon Bach. The forum discussion of this day will be chaired by Barbara Partee. In addition to the invited speakers, there will be a number of slots for selected talks and poster presentations. We invite researchers in the field of aspectuality to submit abstracts on the themes identified above. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be no longer than 2 pages including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, letter size 12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. Please provide 5 anonymous copies of an abstract, and one camera ready original containing title, author's name and affiliation. A separate card should contain the title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address. E-mail submissions are accepted, provided that the abstract is anonymous and sent as an e-mail attachment (Word, RTF). The information about the author (name, affiliation, address, etc.) should be sent along in the body of the e-mail message. Submissions by fax will not be accepted. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: June 1st 2001 Abstracts should be sent to the following address: Perspectives on Aspect, UiL OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, Netherlands. Tel: +31 30 253-6006. E-mail submissions should be sent to: aspectMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue