LINGUIST List 14.773

Mon Mar 17 2003

Calls: Compositionality/Update: Generative Ling

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  • pauline_jacobson, Direct Compositionality: A Worskhop
  • Soo-Yeon Kim, Update: Generative Ling in Asia 2003

    Message 1: Direct Compositionality: A Worskhop

     Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:03:42 +0000
    From: pauline_jacobson <pauline_jacobsonbrown.edu>
    Subject: Direct Compositionality: A Worskhop


    Direct Compositionality: A Worskhop Short Title: Direct Compositionality

    Date: 19-JUN-03 - 21-JUN-03 Location: Providence, RI, United States of America Contact: Pauline Jacobson Contact Email: pauline_jacobsonbrown.edu Meeting URL: to be announced

    Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax, Semantics Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2003

    Meeting Description:

    2nd Call for Abstracts:

    There will be an NSF-funded workshop held at Brown University on June 19-21 on the topic of Direct Compositionality. The text of this announcement is followed by a brief description of the focus of the workshop. The conference will consist of talks by invited speakers listed below plus up to three additional slots to be decided by anonymously reviewed abstract. Participants whose abstracts are chosen will be reimbursed for at least a portion of their travel expenses and will be fully funded for housing during the conference. In addition, all participants (both invited and those chosen by abstract) will be requested to not only present a paper but to be a discussant on one additional paper. Papers will typically be 35-40 minutes in length, and at least an outline of the paper will be circulated to the other speakers a few weeks before the conference. Those interested in submitting an abstract should submit an anonymous abstract of NO MORE THAN 2 PAGES (please, in a readable font with reasonable margins). Abstract deadline: April 1; we will aim for notification within 3 weeks after that. Electronic submission (word or .pdf files) is strongly encouraged; electronic files should be sent to: pauline_jacobsonbrown.edu with the header: Workshop Abstract Submission

    Include your contact information (and abstract title) in the body of the e-mail. If electronic submission is impossible, send 5 copies to: Pauline Jacobson Attn: Workshop Dept.of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Box 1978 Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA

    Further Information avaible at the conference website: http://cog.brown.edu:16080/directcomp/

    Invited Speakers: Chris Barker, UC San Diego Rajesh Bhatt, University of Texas Austin Maria Bittner, Rutgers University Daniel Buring, UCLA Ivano Caponigro, UCLA David Dowty, Ohio State University Danny Fox, MIT Daphna Heller, Rutgers Pauline Jacobson, Brown (organizer) Christopher Potts, UC Santa Cruz Maribel Romero , U Pennsylvania Ken Shan, Havard Yael Sharvit, University of Connecticut Yoad Winter, Technion Institute, Haifa Workshop Description

    This will be a 3-day workshop to be held at Brown University, June 19-21, 2003 on the feasibility of a particular view of the interaction of natural language syntax and semantics. This view the hypothesis of Direct Compositionality - according to which the syntax and semantics work in tandem . Thus the syntactic system of natural language can be seen as a system of rules which ''build'' (i.e., prove the well-formedness of) linguistic expressions while the semantics works along with this to assign meanings to these expressions. This view was put forth in, among others, Montague (1973) and was highly influential in much research in formal semantics during especially the 1970s and 1980s.

    But this approach has been abandoned in a good deal of more modern research, and the debate on whether or not direct compositionality is possible has to some extent receded into the background. It is quite common in much current work to assume a view of the syntax/semantics interaction according to which the syntax works first to ''build'' syntactic representations which are then ''sent'' to the semantics for interpretation. Furthermore, it is often assumed that what inputs the actual semantic (model-theoretic) interpretation is not in fact the surface representation of a sentence, but that this is mapped instead to a more abstract level of Logical Form. Yet the direct compositional view is arguably a much simpler conception of the overall organization of the grammar, and the rationale underlying the proposed workshop is the belief that its abandonment in much current research is premature. The workshop is designed to reopen debate on the feasibility of direct compositionality, bringing together researchers who have studied this question and have approached it with a variety of theoretical and technical tools.

    In addition to the invited speakers, slots are reserved for a few papers to be chosen by refereed abstracts. Abstract submissions are encouraged from both sides of the debate. The ideal paper will focus on one or more empirical phenomena and will discuss the implications of this/these phenomena for the hypothesis of direct compositionality. For example, a paper might be on a phenomena which has typically been taken to provide a challenge to direct compositionality and show that the relevant phenomena can indeed be given a direct compositional analysis. On the other hand, equally important are papers which argue that certain phenomena cannot indeed be handled under direct compositionality. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate serious discussion on this issue, and so each presenter will also be a discussant on one other paper.

    Message 2: Update: Generative Ling in Asia 2003

     Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:46:52 -0500 (EST)
    From: Soo-Yeon Kim <kimsysejong.ac.kr>
    Subject: Update: Generative Ling in Asia 2003


    ** Editor's Note: Please note the change in dates for the conference. **

    4th Generative Linguistics in the Old World in Asia 2003

    Short Title: Glow in Asia Date: 20-AUG-03 - 23-AUG-03 Location: Seoul, Korea, Republic of Contact: Keun-Won Sohn Contact Email: kimsysejong.ac.kr Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2003

    Meeting Description:

    THE 4th GLOW IN ASIA 2003, an international conference on theoretical linguistics, will be held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, on August 20-22, 2003. Two additional workshops focusing on scrambling and wh-movement will be held on August 23, 2003.

    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

    THE 4th GLOW IN ASIA 2003

    Local Organizers The Korean Generative Grammar Circle The Institute for Linguistic Research, Seoul National University

    Abstract Deadline: March 31, 2003 (Extended!)

    Abstracts for the main session are invited from all areas of theoretical linguistics. The main session will consist of approximately 20 talks. Each speaker will be allotted 45 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion. Abstracts for the two workshops on scrambling and wh-movement are also invited. Each presentation for the workshops will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. Please specify whether your abstract is for the main session or for one of the workshops. An author may submit at most one individual and one joint abstract.

    Invited Speakers: Main Session: Anders Holmberg (University of Durham) Workshops: Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University), Norvin Richards (MIT)

    Abstract Submission (both for the main session and for the workshops)

    1. Abstracts can be submitted either by e-mail or by regular mail. 2. Abstracts that arrive after March 31, 2003 will not be accepted. 3. If you e-mail your abstract, - please submit it as an attachment in PDF, MS WORD, or HWP formats, addressed to: kwsohnmail.hannam.ac.kr - in the subject line of your mail, write ''Glow Abstract''. - in the text of your mail, please write the following: whether it is for the main session or for the workshops, the title of the paper, the author's name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, status (student or non-student) 4. If you send your abstract by regular mail, please send - 10 copies of an anonymous two-page abstract, 1-inch margins on all four sides,12pt font, - a camera-ready original of the abstract with the author's name and affiliation, and - a separate sheet indicating whether it is for the main session or for the workshop, the title of the paper, the author's name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and status (student or non-student) - to: THE 4th GLOW IN ASIA Selection Committee c/o Prof. Keun-Won Sohn Hannam University Dept. of English Education 133 Ojung-dong Daeduk-gu Daejeon, Korea (zip code: 306-791)