LINGUIST List 13.3307

Mon Dec 16 2002

Calls: Semantics&Pragmatics/Cushitic&Omotic Langs

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. klaus.heusinger, Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics, MI USA
2. cush-om, Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Leiden Netherlands

Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics

Short Title: SemPrag2003
Location: Michigan, US
Date: 11-Jul-2003 - 13-Jul-2003 
Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2003

Web Site: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/SemPrag2003/
Contact Person: Ken Turner
Meeting Email: K.P.Turnerbton.ac.uk
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The purpose of this workshop is to attract very high quality recent
work on the interdigitation of semantic and pragmatic
theories.

CALL FOR PAPERS 
WHERE SEMANTICS MEETS PRAGMATICS
(First International Workshop on Current Research in the
Semantics-Pragmatics Interface) 
Michigan State University

The workshop will take place during the SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003 of the
LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/)

ORGANIZORS
	Klaus von Heusinger, University of Konstanz, Germany
	Jaroslav Peregrin, Department of Logic Academy of Sciences, Prague
	Ken Turner, School of Languages University of Brighton, UK

INVITED SPEAKERS
Nicholas Asher
Larry Horn
Hans Kamp, 
Bill Ladusaw


DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this workshop is to attract very high quality recent
work on the interdigitation of semantic and pragmatic theories. This
topic has become a centre of intense interest in the last year or so
and a book series called Current Research in the Semantics-Pragmatics
Interface (CRiSPI) of which the three organizers of this workshop are
editors or editorial advisors, may have played some role in promoting
this interest. The workshop is interested in attracting papers on the
currently fashionable topics of, among others, presupposition,
anaphora resolution, quantification, propositional attitude
attribution and modality, as well as other less recently fashionable
topics such as conditionals. Logical, linguistic, psycholinguistic and
computational approaches to these topics will be welcomed. We hope
that each invited speaker will be able to have a one hour slot, and
the other speakers will have 40 minutes (including
discussion). Selected papers may be published as a CRiSPI volume
provisionally titled 'Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics: The Michigan
Papers' (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/series/crispi)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts are invited for forty minute talks (thirty minutes for
presentation plus ten minutes for discussion). Please submit an
abstract (not more than 5 pages), preferably by email (pdf, ps and
word-files are accepted). Send submissions to: 
Ken Turner, 
Michigan Workshop, 
School of Languages, 
University of Brighton, 
Falmer, Brighton, 
East Sussex BN1 9PH, 
Great Britain 
email: K.P.Turnerbton.ac.uk

DEADLINE
	All submissions must be received by April 30th, 2003.
	Notification of acceptance will be emailed by the end of May

IMPORTANT DATES

30 April 2003	deadline for abstracts
31 May 2003	notification of acceptance
June 2003		final program
11-13 July 2003	workshop

See also the workshop-homepage: 
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/SemPrag2003/

LOCAL INFORMATION

LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003 (http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/)

4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages

Short Title: Cush-Om Conference
Location: Leiden, Netherlands
Date: 10-Apr-2003 - 12-Apr-2003 
Web Site: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/tca/atk/Cush-Om_WebPage.htm
Contact Person: Graziano Sava
Meeting Email: cush-omlet.leidenuniv.nl
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics 
Language Family: Cushitic

Meeting Description: 

The 4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages will
be held in Leiden from Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th April 2003.

More than seven years passed since the last Cushitic-Omotic Conference
was held in Berlin in 1994. The meeting in Berlin was the third one of
a series started in 1986 with the 1st Cushitic-Omotic Conference held
in Cologne/Bonn and continued in Torino in 1990.
 
The theme of the conference will be linguistic aspects of Cushitic and
Omotic languages. Papers and contributions on the phonology,
morphology, syntax and pragmatics of these languages are welcome,
preferably from a descriptive point of view. Students in BA, MA and
PhD programs are particularly encouraged to present their research.

The organizing committee: 
Azeb Amha 
Cabdelqaadir Ruumi 
Maarten Mous 
Christian Rapold 
Graziano Sav�


Those who are interested in giving a paper are kindly requested to
send as soon as possible the title and the abstract of maximum one
page. By 1-1-2003 we will react by e-mail to your submission of an
abstract. If you need an earlier reply, let us know. Those who need an
official letter of acceptance on paper can make a specific request.
Please send your reactions to the e-mail address:
Cush-Omlet.leidenuniv.nl or to the mail address: 
4th International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic languages 
Dept. of African Languages and Cultures, 
Leiden University, 
P.O.Box 9515, 
NL-2300 RA Leiden, 
The Netherlands 

This announcement and other information as it becomes available can
also be found at the web page:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/tca/atk/Cush-Om_WebPage.htm 

Leiden is very close (20 minutes train) to Schiphol, Amsterdam
International Airport. Information on hotels can be found at:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/confs/info.html

The organizing committee: 
Azeb Amha 
Cabdelqaadir Ruumi 
Maarten Mous 
Christian Rapold 
Graziano Sav�