LINGUIST List 22.2965 Wed Jul 20 2011 Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Galit Weidman Sassoon , Formal Semantic Evidence Message 1: Formal Semantic Evidence Date: 19-Jul-2011 From: Galit Weidman Sassoon <galitadargmail.com> Subject: Formal Semantic Evidence E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Formal Semantic Evidence Date: 19-Dec-2011 - 21-Dec-2011 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Contact Person: Galit Weidman Sassoon Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/semanticevidence/ Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2011 Meeting Description: The Amsterdam Colloquium Workshop – Formal Semantic Evidence Formal semantics as a field of linguists undergoes a rapid change with respect to the status of quantitative methodologies, the application of which is gradually becoming a standard in the field, replacing the good old ‘armchair’ methodology. In light of this development, we invite submissions reporting of high level formal semantic research benefiting from the use of a quantitative methodology, corpora-based, experimental, neurolinguistic, computational or other. Call for Papers: We welcome submissions focusing on wide spread, yet not unproblematic or elusive semantic-pragmatic concepts such as 'context', 'accommodation', 'question under discussion', 'ordering source', and so forth; what methodologies can shed new light on such notions and the way they might be systematically studied and decoded? What kind of experimental evidence (if any) can bear on fundamental issues such as the nature of the semantic lexicon on the one hand, and compositionality and projection on the other? What is the nature of semantic infelicity or markedness? What kind of experimental evidence (if any) can support or refute hypotheses concerning the nature of the logical form or its very existence? Concerning empty categories? Finally, can formal semantic tools contribute to our understanding of experimental results and theoretical issues within cognitive psychology as pertaining to natural language semantics? Ideal presentations include informed reflections on the role of a particular methodology in formal semantics. Instructions for Authors: Authors can submit anonymous abstracts of at most two pages via the website of the Amsterdam Colloquium: http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2011/Submission/ Important Dates: Submission deadline: September 1, 2011 Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2011 Deadline for pre-proceedings: December 1, 2011 Deadline for registration: December 1, 2011 Conference: December 19 - 21, 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Jul-2011       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.