LINGUIST List 21.5079 Wed Dec 15 2010 Calls: Semantics/Portugal 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.     Ana Teresa Alves , Temporal, Modal and Event Interpretation in Natural Language Message 1: Temporal, Modal and Event Interpretation in Natural Language Date: 14-Dec-2010 From: Ana Teresa Alves <aalves1999yahoo.com> Subject: Temporal, Modal and Event Interpretation in Natural Language E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Temporal, Modal and Event Interpretation in Natural Language Short Title: TMEI-NLD Date: 16-Jun-2011 - 18-Jun-2011 Location: University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Portugal Contact Person: Ana Teresa Alves Meeting Email: tmei-nlduac.pt Web Site: http://www.tmei-nld.uac.pt. Linguistic Field(s): Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: This meeting focuses on how the temporal structure of discourse is built out of linguistic and world knowledge cues, a topic of intense research for the past couple of decades. How do grammatical elements or systems - such as tense, aspect, Aktionsart, auxiliary verbs, lexical predicates (like last or date back to), time adjuncts, and discourse connectives - interact to determine temporal information processing in natural languages? How does world knowledge - in combination with the above-mentioned grammatical elements or systems - affect the semantic interpretation? Furthermore, how does mood/modality interact with temporal information (e.g. in factual, counterfactual or hypothetical structures)? Both language-specific and contrastive studies focusing on these different types of interactions - at the sentence or at the discourse level - are welcome. Call For Papers Submissions are invited for papers in any topic related to the theme of the meeting. Authors are asked to submit their abstracts as e-mail attachments in word or pdf using the Linguist List Easy Abstracts facility. The abstract should be anonymous and include the title and three keywords/phrases that best describe the content of the presentation. The title of the paper, name of the author(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address should be included in the e-mail message. Abstracts should not be longer than two pages in length (including examples and references), in Times New Roman 12-point font, single line spacing and 2,5 cm margins on all sides. Talks will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion. The official language of the conference will be English. Call Deadline: March 15th Notification of acceptance: April 15th Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 15-Dec-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.