LINGUIST List 15.228

Thu Jan 22 2004

Calls: Computational Ling/Spain; Ling Theories/France

Editor for this issue: Andrea Berez <andrealinguistlist.org>

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1. gerardor, 3rd International AELFE Conference
2. Philippe Schlenker, Workshop-Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory

3rd Internatioal AELFE Conference

European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes AELFE, the
European Association specialised in languages for specific purposes,
aims at fostering and promoting both the research into and teaching of
modern languages as regards their applications to science, technology
and other disciplines. To be held in Granada (23rd-25th September
2004), the Third AELFE International Conference is under the title
"Current trends of languages for specific purposes in an international
and multicultural context". It addresses innovation in all relevant
aspects of didactics and theoretical- practical research of modern
languages applied to academic and specific purposes. We particularly
welcome contributions which have a bearing on international and
multicultural aspects, although this does not exclude any other topic
that may lead us to reflect on our teaching, experimental and research
practice.

The conference is structured into six thematic panels: 
(1) Discourse Studies; 
(2) Terminology and Lexicology; 
(3) Translation; 
(4) Application of Information and Communication Technologies; 
(5) Didactics and Language Acquisition; 
(6) Cognitive Linguistics and LSP. 

The venue is organised by the English and German Department, the
Faculty of Arts and the Centre of Modern Languages at the University
of Granada, and the contact members of the organising committee are
Angel Felices Lago (President) and Inmaculada Sanz Sainz (Secretary).

The deadline for the submission of abstracts (400-500 words) is 27th
February 2004 to aelfe3ugr.es. The final version of the paper must
not exceed 3000 words, excluding the abstract, and the submission
deadline for this version is 30th April 2004. Speakers will be allowed
25 minutes for their oral presentation, plus 5 minutes for questions.

The registration fees are as follows:

Before 15th June 2004
AELFE members: 150 Euros
Non-members: 200 Euros	
Students: 35 Euros	

After 15th June 2004
AELFE members: 200 Euros
Non-members:250 Euros
Students: 40 Euros

Students are only entitled to participate in activities of an academic
nature, while registration fees for members and non-members cover the
cost of all scheduled academic activities, visits and excursions, as
well as breakfast, lunch and tea on Thursday and Friday, coffee on
Saturday, the Friday conference dinner and the conference proceedings
(book format).

Contact: Telephone: 34-958-24 99 05; Fax: 34-958-24 36 78; E-mail:
aelfe3ugr.es Web page: http://www.ugr.es/local/aelfe3

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop: Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/ESSLLI04.html

organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and
Information (ESSLLI 2004)
http://esslli2004.loria.fr/
16-20 August, 2004 in Nancy

Workshop Organizers:
Ed Keenan, UCLA (ekeenanucla.edu)
Philippe Schlenker, UCLA & IJN (schlenkeucla.edu)

Workshop Purpose:

Binding Theory, which is concerned with sentence-internal constraints
on anaphora, was originally conceived in syntactic terms as a set of
conditions on the distribution of indices (Chomsky 1983). Thus
Condition A stated that anaphors are locally bound (*John/i thinks
that himself/i is clever); Condition B stated that Pronominals are
locally free (*He/i likes him/i), and Condition C required that
R-expressions be free (*He/i thinks that John/i is clever). But other
researchers have attempted to derive these constraints from lexical
semantics or the interpretative procedure rather than the syntax. Some
add a semantic component to a syntactic core (e.g. Reinhart 1983,
Heim 1993, Fox 2000, Buring 2002), but others are more radically
semantic (e.g. works by Jacobson, Keenan, Barker & Shan, Butler).

The workshop, which is intended for advanced PhD students and
researchers, will provide a forum to compare and assess these diverse
proposals. We welcome proposals for 45mn contributions (30mn
presentation + 15mn discussion), which should be specific, explicit
and semantically informed. We list below some possible topics, though
the list is not exhaustive.

Possible Workshop Topics:
-Semantic analyses of standard Binding Conditions
-Arguments pro or contra semantic approaches to Binding Theory
-Reflexivity
-Relation between logophors and anaphors
-Relation between deixis and anaphora
-Cross-linguistic variation in binding conditions

Submission details:
Authors are invited to submit an abstract in pdf format describing
their proposal. Submissions should not exceed 3 pages. Please send
your submission electronically to schlenkeucla.edu by *March 5,
2004*. The abstracts will be reviewed by the workshop�s program
committee. Please include author details in the accompanying e-mail,
leaving the pdf attachment anonymous. Authors whose submission is
accepted should be prepared to send later (by May 15th) an extended
(6-page) version of their abstract, to appear in the workshop
proceedings published by ESSLLI.

Workshop format:
The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI
participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over
five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. There will be 2
slots for paper presentations and discussion per session. On the first
day, the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic.

Invited Speakers:
Ken Shan (Harvard) & Chris Barker (UCSD)
Alastair Butler (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of
Amsterdam)

Workshop Program Committee:
Ed Keenan (UCLA)
Philippe Schlenker (UCLA & IJN)
Chris Barker (UCSD)
Ken Shan (Harvard)
Alastair Butler (ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of
Amsterdam)

Important Dates: 
Submissions: March 5, 2004
Notification: April 19, 2004
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2004
Preliminary program: April 23, 2004
Extended (6-page) version of the abstracts for the proceedings: May
15, 2004
Final program: June 25, 2004
Workshop dates: August 16-20

Local Arrangements:
All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to
register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a
paper will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker
registration fee.

There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation.

Further Information:
About the workshop:
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schlenker/ESSLLI04.html
About ESSLLI: http://esslli2004.loria.fr