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illc.uva.nl>Content-Length: 4852 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS THE TENTH AMSTERDAM COLLOQUIUM December 18---21, 1995 The Tenth Amsterdam Colloquium will be held from Monday 18 until Thursday 21, December 1995, at the University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together logicians, philosophers, linguists and computer scientists who share an interest in semantics. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions), to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations). The following people have in principle accepted our invitation to give a lecture: Bob Carpenter * Gennaro Chierchia * Joe Halpern Hans Kamp * Angelika Kratzer * Fred Landman Barbara Partee * Krister Segerberg * Anna Szabolcsi To give this tenth installment a special touch, an evening session will be devoted to the past and the future of the field of semantics. *Submission of abstracts* The Colloquium has room for 40 contributed talks of approximately 40 minutes. People who want to contribute a paper are requested to send in SIX copies of an ANONYMOUS ABSTRACT of two pages (at most 1000 words). The abstract must include a short, 10 line, SUMMARY clearly indicating subject matter and conclusions. A SEPARATE leaflet should specify the author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address plus the title of the contribution. Submission by e-mail is possible, provided that the abstract, summary and personal details are in ASCII and don't need typesetting. The DEADLINE for submission of abstracts is September 1, 1995. The abstracts will be refereed by the program committee consisting of Renate Bartsch, Johan van Benthem, Peter van Emde Boas, Frank Veltman and the invited speakers. Authors will be notified of acceptance by October 15. The 10 line summaries of the accepted papers will be included in the program. *Important Dates* -) 01-09-95 Deadline for submissions -) 15-10-95 Notification of acceptance -) 15-11-95 Distribution of program -) 18--21 December 1995 Amsterdam Colloquium -) 01-02-96 Final papers due -) 15-03-96 Proceedings due *Organization* The organizing committee of the Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium consists of Paul Dekker, Jeroen Groenendijk, Erik-Jan van der Linden and Martin Stokhof. Financial support is provided by the ILLC, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Dutch Graduate School in Logic (OzsL), and the Foundation for Language Speech and Logic (TSL) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) has made some funds available to support visits to AcTen by colleagues from countries with currencies that are hard to exchange. Those colleagues who are interested, are requested to send a short application to the local organizers containing information about their research interests and a budget, before September 1, 1995 For further information, contact: Organizing Committee Tenth Amsterdam Colloquium ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, 1012 CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 5254541 fax: +31 20 5254503 email: AcTenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
indiana.edu>Content-Length: 4921 Greetings! I am posting this at the request of someone who doesn't subscribe to Linguist; please reply to the address in the Call for Papers, not to me! George Fowler The Department of Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies and The Institute of Phonetic Studies Faculty of Philosophy and Arts Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) announce a conference LP'96: Typology: prototypes, items orderings and universals August 20-22 1996 This is the third LP (Linguistics and Phonetics) conference of the two departments within the space of six years. The first was held in 1990, the second in 1994 (Proceedings of LP'90 are still available on request from Charles University Press - Karolinum (Ovocny trh 5, Prague 1, 11636) or from the Department of Linguistics and Finno- Ugric Studies, Proceedings of LP'94 will be available in July 1995). The term item-order was the central term discussed at the LP'94 Conference.The term "item" was used in the sense of any linguistic unit such as phoneme, morpheme, syllable, word, word-form, phrase, clause, sentence. The primary aim of LP'96 is to contribute to the clarification of the role of item-order in typology and to its interrelationship with other language means in typology. Topics will focus among other on following questions: 1) What does a possible type of natural language entail? What parameters differentiate language from other phenomena? The topic includes among other: Biological, genetic and philosophical aspects of linguistic universals; function-form approach to typology; the role of comparison of acoustic and perception phenomena in both natural and synthetic speech signals; internal and external phonetic values; kinds of iconicity/ isomorphism/ economy at individual levels of linguistis analysis; markedness of item-orderings (e.g. is it meaningful to differentiate fixed and free word-order according to the dichotomy unmarked-marked?) 2) Which factors are relevant for classification as such and for classification of languages in particular? The topic includes among other: the processses of reduction and clustering of linguistic phenomena; substruction of linguistic properties; the concept of type of languages. 3) What is the foundation of typology as a linguistic discipline? The topic includes among other: kinds of typology: traditional typologies (morphological, syntactic, semantic), cognitive typology (configurational vs non-configurational languages, Baker's incorporation, mirror principles, kinds of raising, etc.), classification of typologies (parameters). 4) Is linguistic typology only the subject of theoretical discussions or has it consequences for linguistic applications? The topic includes: consequences for language teaching, for linguistic databases, for development of text-editors, for multilingual communication and multimedia in www in contrast with monolingual communication, etc. Organizing Committee: Frantisek Danes (Czech Academy of Sciences) Osamu Fujimura (The Ohio-State University) Laura A. Janda (The University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill) Premysl Janota (Charles University, Prague) Helena Kurzova (Czech Academy of Sciences) Jiri V. Neustupny (Osaka University) Pavel Novak (Charles University, Prague) Bohumil Palek (Charles University, Prague) - chairman Ewa Willim (Jagellonian University, Poland) Preliminary application for LP'96 and short abstract (half page) should be sent not later by September 30, 1995. Premiminary Application Form Name: Affiliation: University: phone mail adress fax e-mail Preliminary title of submitted paper: Note: If you plan to request financial support from various funds, please feel free to contact me as to the topic of your paper at any time. Updated information on LP96 will be available at: http://www.cuni.cz/lp96 Contact address: e-mail: palekMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue