LINGUIST List 22.860 Sun Feb 20 2011 Confs: Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Syntax/France 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.     Alexandra Arapinis , Workshop on Actions, Products, and Propositional Content Message 1: Workshop on Actions, Products, and Propositional Content Date: 20-Feb-2011 From: Alexandra Arapinis <alexandra.arapinismalix.univ-paris1.fr> Subject: Workshop on Actions, Products, and Propositional Content E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Actions, Products, and Propositional Content Date: 12-Mar-2011 - 12-Mar-2011 Location: Paris, France Contact: Alexandra Arapinis Contact Email: alexandra.arapinismalix.univ-paris1.fr Meeting URL: http://semantics.univ-paris1.fr Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: (In the context of the ANR-DFG project NOMINAL) IHPST, Grande salle, 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris (metro Mabillon) In 1912 the Polish philosopher K. Twardowski published a very interesting article 'Actions and Products' distinguishing between actions such as 'jumping', 'screaming', 'thinking', 'believing', and 'expecting' and their corresponding (physical or mental) products such as a 'jump', a 'scream', a 'thought', a 'belief', and an 'expectation'. A special case of that distinction is the distinction between 'judging' and (the historically important notion of) a 'judgment'. Only mental products and not actions can be true (beliefs, judgments) or fulfilled (expectations). The distinction between actions and products is of great interest to both philosophers of language and linguists working on nominalizations. This workshop is about the philosophical distinction itself as well as related act-based conceptions of propositional content in early analytic philosophy as well as recent philosophy of language (as in the work of Hanks and Soames). It furthermore addresses the linguistic distinctions between corresponding types of nominalizations in natural languages. 10.00-11.00: Maria van der Schaar (Leiden University) 'The Act of Assertion and the Assertion Made' 11.00-11-15: Coffee break 11.15-12.15: Friederike Moltmann (IHPST, CNRS/Paris 1/ENS) 'Ontologies of Act-Based Conceptions of Sentential Content' 12.15-14.00: Lunch break 14.00-15.00: Elena Soare (Université Paris 8) 'Aspectual Distinctions Inside Event Nominals' 15.00-15.30 Coffee break 15.30-16.00: Per Martin-Löf (Stockholm University) 'On the Triple Action/Product/Propositional Content' 16.00-17.00: Alexandra Arapinis (IHPST, CNRS/Paris 1/ENS) 'Truth-Bearers in Judgement Theory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives' 17.00-17.30: Discussion Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Feb-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.