LINGUIST List 14.1577

Tue Jun 3 2003

Calls: Neuroling/Germany; Semantics/Germany

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  • ferstl, 3. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f�r Aphasieforschung und -behandlung
  • zybatov, Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation

    Message 1: 3. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f�r Aphasieforschung und -behandlung

     Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 05:39:09 +0000
    From: ferstl <ferstlcns.mpg.de>
    Subject: 3. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f�r Aphasieforschung und -behandlung


    3. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f�r Aphasieforschung und -behandlung Short Title: GAB2003

    Date: 06-NOV-03 - 08-NOV-03 Location: Leipzig, Germany Contact: Evelyn Ferstl Contact Email: gab2003cns.mpg.de Meeting URL: http://www.aphasiegesellschaft.de

    Linguistic Sub-field: Neurolinguistics Subject Language: German, Standard Call Deadline: 18-Jul-2003

    Meeting Description:

    This conference is devoted to research and therapy of acquired speech and language deficits in German. Contributions for talks and poster presentations are invited. The conference focusses on research and therapy of aphasia, but any neighboring topics on acquired speech and language deficits are welcome. For information on abstract submission formats please consult http://www.aphasiegesellschaft.de.

    Message 2: Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation

     Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 07:17:52 +0000
    From: zybatov <zybatovrz.uni-leipzig.de>
    Subject: Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation


    Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation Short Title: event structures 04

    Date: 17-Mar-2004 - 19-Mar-2004 Location: Leipzig, Saxony, Germany Contact: Tatjana Zybatow Contact Email: zybatovrz.uni-leipzig.de Meeting URL: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~event04

    Linguistic Sub-field: Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2003

    Meeting Description:

    The main purpose of the conference is to bring together insights on how eventuality structures are reflected in linguistic form and how such structures can be derived from it in utterance interpretation. Papers describing research contributions on any aspect of event-based semantics or verbal semantics are welcome for discussion.

    FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation

    Location: Leipzig, Germany Date: March 17-19, 2004 Abstract Deadline: November 15, 2003

    The workshop is hosted by the research project 'Event Structures: Grammatical and Conceptual Components of Utterance Interpretation' at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leipzig and the Graduierten-kolleg 'Universality and Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes', University of Leipzig. Papers describing research contributions on any aspect of event-based semantics or verbal semantics are welcome for discussion. Conference languages will be English and German. Continuously updated information on the workshop (including registration, accommodation, program, location etc.) can be found at the website: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~event04/. Outstanding papers read at the conference will be published in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter.

    Invited Speakers:

    Thomas Ernst (University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA) Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel)

    Program Committee:

    Markus Egg (University of Saarbr�cken, Germany) Veronika Ehrich (University of T�bingen, Germany) Stefan Engelberg (University of Wuppertal, Germany) Hana Filip (University of Rochester, USA) Fritz Hamm (University of T�bingen, Germany) Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, USA) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) Claudia Maienborn (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) Susan Rothstein (Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel) Henri�tte de Swart (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Arnim von Stechow (University of T�bingen, Germany)

    Organizers:

    Johannes D�lling, Martin Sch�fer, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Tatjana Zybatow

    Contact: Tatjana Zybatow E-Mail: zybatovrz.uni-leipzig.de

    Workshop Description:

    The main purpose of the conference is to bring together insights on how eventuality structures are reflected in linguistic form and how such structures can be derived from it in utterance interpretation.

    Special topics of interest are:

    - Lexical structure of verbs - Aspectual composition - Adverbial modification

    Questions we would like to see adressed include, but are not limited to the following:

    Lexical structure of verbs

    - What format should be used for the semantic representation of verbs - Davidsonian, neo-Davidsonian or other formats? - Can verb meanings be characterized by lexical decomposition and, if so, which primitives should be used then? - How much of the eventuality structure should explicitly appear in lexical structure? What role does semantic underspecification play? What kind of mechanisms can be supposed for pragmatic specification of the eventuality structure addressed by verbs? - How does the mapping into syntax work? How can the lexical information of the verbs influence the syntactic derivation of the respective sentence? - What kind of connection should be assumed between eventuality structure and thematic structure? Do different thematic structures necessarily lead to different verbal entries?

    Aspectual composition

    - What are the similarities and differences between the several semantic frameworks respresenting incremental relations in eventuality structure? Should a mereological approach to aspectual composition be preferred? - Are the aspectual type of the respective verb and the semantic properties of its arguments enough for the computation of the eventuality type encoded by the verb-argument complex? Should mechanisms like aspectual shifting be assumed in addition? - How much of the aspectual composition can be relegated to pragmatics? What would then explain the systematic dependencies between grammatical aspect and aktionsarten? - In what way can the mereological approach be extended to cover also expressions involving a path or a scalar change or intransitive verbs?

    Adverbial modification

    - What are the licensing syntactic and semantic conditions on adverbial modification? - Should non-sentential modifiers, such as manner adverbs, be represented as operators on verb meanings or as predicates of events? Are there any differences between the several classes of modifiers in this respect? - How does variation of linear word order involving adverbs bear on the interpretation of the respective utterances? What triggers the variations? What precisely are the particular effects on the resulting eventuality structure? - To what extent does adverbial modification involve a reinterpretation that is triggered by aspectual mismatches and is executed by coercion of eventuality type? - Can the use of one adverb as sentence or verb modifier be derived from one lexical entry? How does this relate to the cognate adjectival usages?

    Submission of Abstracts:

    We invite submissions for 30-minute presentations (+ 10 minutes for discussion). The abstract should not exceed 2 pages (including references and examples). Please leave at least a 2,5 cm margin on all four sides, and use at least a 12-pt font. Anyone may submit at most one abstract as a single author and a second one as co-author. The Authors' names, affiliations and contact address should be included in the e-mail text. The abstracts themselves must be anonymous.

    DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: November 15, 2003

    Please submit abstracts electronically (pdf, ps, ms word, rtf) to: zybatovrz.uni-leipzig.de