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1. Doris
Gerland,
Concept Types&Frames in Language,Cognition&Science
2. Marta
Albelda,
V Foro de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera
Message 1: Concept Types&Frames in Language,Cognition&Science
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Date: 18-Dec-2008
From: Doris Gerland <gerlandphil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Subject: Concept Types&Frames in Language,Cognition&Science
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Full Title: Concept Types&Frames in Language,Cognition&Science
Short Title: CTF09
Date: 24-Aug-2009 - 26-Aug-2009
Location: Duesseldorf, Germany
Contact Person: Anna Grabowski
Meeting Email: ctfphil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
Web Site:
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fff/fff-conference-ctf09/first-announcement/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics;
Typology
Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2009
Meeting Description:
The topic of the conference is the investigation of concept types of nouns and
verbs and their respective relationships to frames. Frames provide a recursive
device for representing knowledge about arbitrary objects and categories by
means of attributes and their values. They offer a flexible way of representing
concepts of different types in language, philosophy and sciences at different
levels of detail and at different stages of development or processing. The
interdisciplinary conference combines approaches from linguistics, computational
linguistics, mathematics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, philosophy,
philosophy of science, and the history of science.
The conference will be held in English.
Call for Papers
Invited Speakers:
Barbara Abbott, Lawrence W. Barsalou, Jerry Hobbs, Beth Levin, James
Pustejovsky, Barry Smith, Paul Thagard
Linguistic Perspectives:
Nouns in natural language correspond to different basic types of concepts.
Sortal nouns (e.g. 'cow', 'table', 'adjective') constitute the unmarked type of
nouns; individual nouns (e.g. 'Mary', 'pope', 'moon') and functional nouns (e.g.
'mother', 'head', 'size') are marked in being inherently unique; relational
nouns (e.g. 'son', 'leg', 'modifier') and functional nouns are marked by
involving one or more additional arguments. The linguistic perspective on noun
types includes determination in general and productive type shifts, as both
permit systematic transitions between types of nouns. The types of nouns can be
modelled by frames of different types. A second focus is on verbs: dimensional
verbs such as 'cost', 'last', 'widen', and 'cool' can incorporate functional
concepts as well. Moreover, verbs also lend themselves naturally to a frame
account of lexical meaning. A systematic frame analysis of verb and noun
meanings promises a substantial contribution to theories of both syntactic and
semantic composition. Among the different concept types, functional concepts are
of particular interest since they directly correspond to attributes in frames.
Therefore, they play a central role not only in linguistics but in conceptual
and theoretical evolution in general.
Philosophical and Cognitive Perspectives:
Frames, in Barsalou's sense, are recursive attribute-value structures. While
frames can be used to implement individual and sortal concepts, their attributes
can themselves be analysed as recursively interrelated functional concepts.
Given that frames are the basic format of concept formation in cognition,
attributes and frames might have neural correlates in our brains. Frames are a
natural linguistic and conceptual format for the representation of complex
ontologies that embody substance-accidence and part-whole relations. Of
particular interest is the relation of frames to complex representational
formats such as conceptual spaces and mental models. Functional concepts and
frames play a crucial role in the human evolution of a stable cognitive
framework for communication and cooperation, in everyday life, as well as in
science. Insofar as the objects of scientific disciplines are defined in terms
of underlying frames, Kuhnian paradigm shifts are related to changes in the
frames employed in science.
The conference invites contributions to the following topics:
Types of nouns and types of determination
- typological characteristics of non-sortal noun types
- compositional properties of non-sortal noun types
- typological accounts of determination, in particular definiteness and possession
- historical development of functional and relational nouns and their
grammatical integration
- automatic classification of noun types in natural language corpora
The vocabulary of dimensions: semantics, typology, and evolution
- abstract functional nouns ('price', 'temperature', 'meaning')
- dimensional adjectives
- stative dimensional verbs ('cost', 'weigh', 'mean')
- dynamic dimensional verbs, in particular degree achievements
Lexical decomposition using frames
- frames for types of nouns
- frames for types of verbs
- large frame systems in the lexicon
Frame approaches to word formation
- frame analysis of compounds
- frame analysis of deverbal nouns
Frames in cognition
- functional and relational frames in cognition
- neural correlates and computational modelling of functional concepts and frames
Frames in science and philosophy
- functional concepts and frames in scientific theory and practice from a
historical perspective, in particular in the history of medical science
- functional and relational concepts and frames in philosophical terminology,
ontology, and metaphysics
- the relation of paradigm shifts to changes in scientific frames
- the structure of scientific ontologies, especially in medicine, biology, and
metaphysics
Frame theory
- formalization and computational modelling of functional and relational
concepts and frames
- algebraic properties of frame spaces and spaces of attributes
- value spaces of attributes
Important Dates:
- Conference: 24-26 August
- Submission: 15 March
- Notification: 30 May
General Chair:
Sebastian Löbner
Scientific Board:
Heiner Fangerau, Hans Geisler, Jim Kilbury, Gerhard Schurz, Robert D. Van Valin,
Jr., Markus Werning
Local Organizers:
Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald, Wiebke Petersen
Message 2: V Foro de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera
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Date: 18-Dec-2008
From: Marta Albelda <marta.albeldauv.es>
Subject: V Foro de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera
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Full Title: V Foro de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera
Short Title: V Foro E/LE
Date: 27-Feb-2009 - 28-Feb-2009
Location: Valencia, Spain
Contact Person: María-José Fernández
Meeting Email: foroeleuv.es
Web Site: http://www.uv.es/foroele
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2009
Meeting Description:
Los días 27 y 28 de febrero de 2009 se celebrará en la Facultat de Filologia de
la Universitat de València el V Foro de Profesores de Español como Lengua
Extranjera. Se trata de una iniciativa que pretende dar respuesta a la
apremiante petición tanto de profesionales como de estudiantes que están
orientando su carrera académica e investigadora hacia la enseñanza del Español
como Lengua Extranjera.
Call for Papers
El objetivo principal del V Foro de Profesores de Español para Extranjeros es
ser un punto de encuentro de todos aquellos interesados en la docencia e
investigación del Español como Lengua Extranjera.
Los días 27 y 28 de febrero de 2009 se celebrará en la Facultat de Filologia de
la Universitat de València el V Foro de Profesores de Español como Lengua
Extranjera. Se trata de una iniciativa que pretende dar respuesta a la
apremiante petición tanto de profesionales como de estudiantes que están
orientando su carrera académica e investigadora hacia la enseñanza del Español
como Lengua Extranjera.
El objetivo principal del V Foro de Profesores de Español para Extranjeros es
ser un punto de encuentro de todos aquellos interesados en la docencia e
investigación del Español como Lengua Extranjera.
El Foro presenta dos vertientes: por un lado la formación, con la presentación
de ponencias por parte de investigadores de reconocido prestigio en el mundo de
la investigación en E/LE, y por otro el intercambio de experiencias prácticas
por parte de los participantes.
Todos aquellos asistentes que quieran presentar sus experiencias tendrán que
hacerlo antes del 15 de enero de 2009. TODAS LAS EXPERIENCIAS ADMITIDAS SERÁN
PUBLICADAS electrónicamente en las actas del FORO, publicación que cuenta con
ISSN propio.
La presentación de experiencias prácticas será sometida a una selección en
función del interés didáctico, científico y creativo Las propuestas serán
remitidas antes del 30 DE ENERO DE 2009 a través de la ficha correspondiente en
www.uv.es/foro, en la que se incluye: una descripción de la experiencia (como
máximo de 20 líneas) en la que constarán los objetivos de la actividad, el nivel
de los estudiantes a los que va dirigida (según el Marco común europeo de
Referencia) y la temporalización.
Cada experiencia práctica tendrá una duración de 20 minutos.
Contacto: foroeleuv.es
Precio:
40 euros; 25 euros en el caso de que se presente experiencia práctica.
BANCAJA (Se recomienda la transferencia electrónica, gratuita, a través de
www.bancaja.es)
Ingresos desde España:
Entidad: 2077 Oficina: 0065
DC: 40 Nº Cuenta: 6600006086
Ingresos desde fuera de España:
Código IBAN: IBAN ES28 2077 0065 4431 0187 7710
Código BIC (SWIFT): CVALESVVXXX
Inscripción electrónica. Rellenar el formulario de la página
www.uv.es/foroele
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