LINGUIST List 21.4733 Thu Nov 25 2010 Confs: Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Stephanie Solt , Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers Message 1: Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers Date: 24-Nov-2010 From: Stephanie Solt <soltzas.gwz-berlin.de> Subject: Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers E-mail this message to a friend Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers Short Title: VQ2 Date: 08-Dec-2010 - 09-Dec-2010 Location: Berlin, Germany Contact: Stephanie Solt Contact Email: soltzas.gwz-berlin.de Meeting URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_vq2.html Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics Meeting Description: The exchange of numerical information plays a central role in human interaction. We talk about the number of people in a room, the weight of a bag of grain, or the proportion of the population who supports a particular candidate or proposition. A crucial aspect of much of the quantity information we exchange is that it is approximate, vague or incomplete. Vagueness may be signalled linguistically via modifiers such as 'about' (about 50 books) and 'roughly' (roughly 20 people). Even without modification, seemingly precise numerical expressions may be interpreted approximately; for example, 'there were 100 people in the audience' is typically understood to mean 'about 100'. And most centrally, several highly frequent natural language quantifiers, such as 'many', 'few', 'most' and 'a lot', are inherently vague. The goal of the present workshop is to bring together diverse theoretical perspectives on vague quantities and vague quantifiers, from fields including linguistic semantics and pragmatics, logic (particularly fuzzy logic), psycholinguistics, cognitive science and psychology. Specific topics to be covered include: - Linguistic treatments of vague quantifiers - Granularity models of approximation - Logics for vague quantity - Generalized fuzzy quantifiers - The mental representation and processing of vague or approximate quantity - Reasoning with vague quantifiers Vague Quantities and Vague Quantifiers is funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) under the auspices of the EUROCORES Programme LogICCC. Organizers: Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin) Chris Fermüller (Technische Universität Wien) Wednesday, 8 December 9.30-9.45 Manfred Krifka (ZAS Berlin): Welcome and Introduction 9.45-10.15 Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin): Some cases of vague quantity 10.15-10.45 Alan Bale (Concordia): Precision, vagueness, scales and the back-down phenomenon 10.45-11.15 Break 11.15-11.45 Denis Bonnay (Paris Ouest): Vagueness at all orders 11.45-12.15 Pilar Delunde (UAB): Model theory for fuzzy predicate languages 12.15-14.00 Lunch 14.00-14.30 Marian Klamer & Antoinette Schapper (Leiden): Numbers and vague quantification in Alor Pantar languages: some initial observations 14.30-15.00 Rasmus Baath, Uli Sauderland & Sverker Sikstrom (ZAS Berlin/Lund): Quantifier use in English and German: an online study 15.00-15.30 Marijan Palmovic & Gordana Hrzica (U Zagreb): Color terms and quantities: an experimental account 15.30-16.00 Break 16.00-16.30 Christoph Roschger (Technical University Vienna): Contextual models of vagueness and vague quantifiers 16.30-17.30 Invited Speaker: Vilem NOvak (U Ostrava): On the theory of intermediate quantifiers Thursday, 9 December 9.30-9.45 Eva Hoogland (ESF): ESF, EUROCORES & LogICCC 9.45-10.45 Invited Speaker: Justin Halberda (John Hopkins U): TBD 10.45-11.15 Break 11.15-11.45 Raquel Fernandez (ILLC, Amsterdam): Common ground and granularity of referring expressions 11.45-12.15 Chris Cummins (Cambridge): Modelling the pragmatic effects of approximation 12.15-14.00 Lunch 14.00-14.30 Maria Spychalska(Utrecht): Reasoning with vague quantifiers 14.30-15.00 Niki Pfeifer, Giuseppe Sanfilippo & Aangelo Gilio (LMU Munich): Coherent probabilistic quantification, existential import and Aristotelian syllogistics 15.00-15.30 Petr Cintula (Acad. of Sciences, Czech Republic): On Hajek's fuzzy quantifiers ''probably'' and ''many'' 15.30-16.00 Break 16.00-16.30 Chris Fermuller (Technical University Vienna): Is there a role for fuzzy logic in linguistics? 16.30-17.30 Invited Speaker: Jakub Szymanik (Stockholm U): Complexity of quantifier processing Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.