LINGUIST List 14.1048

Tue Apr 8 2003

Calls: Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics; Computational Ling

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  • shaer, Workshop on dislocated elements in discourse
  • Markus Stolze, INTERACT 03 (Zurich, Sept.)

    Message 1: Workshop on dislocated elements in discourse

     Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:30:09 +0000
    From: shaer <shaerzas.gwz-berlin.de>
    Subject: Workshop on dislocated elements in discourse


    Workshop on dislocated elements in discourse: Syntactic, semantic & pragmatic perspectives Short Title: Dislocated elements

    Date: 28-Nov-2003 - 30-Nov-2003 Location: Berlin, Germany Contact: Claudia Maienborn Contact Email: c.maienbornrz.hu-berlin.de Meeting URL: http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0594bbb/workshops/zas2003.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2003

    Meeting Description:

    Workshop on dislocated elements in discourse: Syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic perspectives

    28-30 November 2003

    Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin

    Organizers: Werner Frey, Claudia Maienborn, Benjamin Shaer

    Invited Speakers: Betty Birner (Northern Illinois University) Gisbert Fanselow (Universitaet Potsdam) Guenther Grewendorf (Universitaet Frankfurt am Main) Liliane Haegeman (Angellier-Universit� Lille/CNRS) Hans Kamp (Universitaet Stuttgart) Frederick Newmeyer (University of Washington) A great deal of attention has been devoted in recent linguistic research to the sentence's left periphery. This work has been broad in its scope, attracting the attention of those working in various research paradigms and addressing a range of questions. These include questions about the syntactic, semantic, and discourse properties of this domain and how these differ from the properties of the sentence's right periphery. These also include questions about the differences between left-peripheral (LP) arguments and adjuncts and between various LP constructions, the interaction between LP elements and sentence type, and the extent of cross-linguistic variation that this domain displays.

    The goal of this workshop is to bring together current research on LP arguments and adjuncts from syntactic, semantic, and discourse perspectives, and to examine current assumptions and claims about how these are structured, interpreted, and related to other constituents in a discourse. Crucial to this examination is a consideration of LP dislocation devices such as hanging topics, left-dislocation, topicalization, and focalization and their similarities and differences across languages.

    Specific questions to be addressed include (but are not limited to):

    - What is the relation between the position and interpretation of LP elements? How different are left-peripheral and right-peripheral occurrences of the same expression?

    - Is the left periphery structured in a uniform way across different constructions in the same language and across different languages? If not, what kind of variation does this domain display? What diachronic processes might be involved in this variation?

    - To what extent are the discourse properties of LP dislocation devices determined by their syntactic and semantic properties? What roles can the notions of 'sentence topic' and 'discourse topic' play in helping us to understand the contribution of LP elements?

    - What is the nature of the differences in the properties and behaviour of LP arguments and adjuncts?

    - What syntactic differences, if any, are associated with LP adverbials that belong to different semantic classes (manner, temporal, causative, etc.)?

    The workshop is directed at both empirically- and theoretically-oriented researchers. Of especial interest to the workshop is the investigation of the syntax/semantics and grammar/discourse interfaces. Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed one A4 page (12-point font, 2.5-cm (1-inch) margins), with one extra page permitted for examples and references. We strongly encourage electronic submission of abstracts as PDF or MS Word files. Please give 'Dislocated elements workshop' as the subject of your e-mail, and provide your name and affiliation and the title of your paper in the body of your e-mail text.

    DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 15 July 2003 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 15 September 2003

    Please send your abstract to: Werner Frey/Claudia Maienborn/Benjamin Shaer freyzas.gwz-berlin.de c.maienbornrz.hu-berlin.de shaerzas.gwz-berlin.de

    Street address: Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Jaegerstr. 10/11 10117 Berlin, Germany

    Links to more information about the ZAS and the conference: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/ http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0594bbb/workshops/zas2003.html

    Message 2: INTERACT 03 (Zurich, Sept.)

     Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:02:49 +0200
    From: Markus Stolze <mrszurich.ibm.com>
    Subject: INTERACT 03 (Zurich, Sept.)


    NEWS from IFIP INTERACT 2003 (9th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction)

    September 1-5, 2003 - Z�rich, Switzerland

    The submission deadline for

    * Video papers (4 pages paper in main proceedings) * Short papers (4 pages paper in main proceedings) * Interactive posters (4 pages paper in main proceedings) * Special interest groups (1 page paper in main proceedings) * Student posters (1 page paper in main proceedings)

    is Monday April 28.

    Electronic submission is encouraged.

    For submission details see the INTERACT 2003 website http://www.interact2003.org/