LINGUIST List 14.972

Wed Apr 2 2003

Calls: Syntax & Semantics, France/Socioling, Spain

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  • cssp03, 5th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris
  • sophie.marnette, Dans la jungle des discours

    Message 1: 5th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris

     Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:18:03 +0000
    From: cssp03 <cssp03linguist.jussieu.fr>
    Subject: 5th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris


    5th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris Short Title: CSSP 03

    Date: 02-OCT-03 - 04-OCT-03 Location: Paris, France Contact: Olivier Bonami Contact Email: cssp01linguist.jussieu.fr Meeting URL: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CSSP

    Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax, Semantics, General Linguistics Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2003

    Meeting Description:

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    THE FIFTH SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE IN PARIS OCTOBER 2-4, 2003

    SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

    THEMATIC SESSION The Syntax and Semantics of Number

    INVITED SPEAKERS Nirit Kadmon (Tel Aviv University) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University - Berlin) Robert Levine (Ohio State University) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh University) Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris 8 University)

    SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 30, 2003

    The fifth Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2003) will take place at Paris 7 University, on October 2-4, 2003. The conference welcomes papers combining empirical inquiry and formal explicitness. It aims at favouring comparisons between diverse formal theories of syntax and semantics. The domains of inquiry are syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface.

    CSSP conferences combine a general session and a thematic session. The theme for the CSSP 2003 thematic session is the syntax and semantics of Number.

    Prospective speakers are invited to submit an abstract, no more than two pages long (including figures and references), written in French or English. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail (plain ASCII, rtf, ps or pdf) before April 30 to:

    cssp03linguist.jussieu.fr

    Authors who are not able to send an electronic version should send two hard copies (one anonymous, one non-anonymous) of the abstract to:

    Colloque de Syntaxe et Semantique a Paris - Universite Paris 7 - UFRL, Case 7003 - 2 Place Jussieu - 75251 Paris-Cedex 05 - France For more information: Web site: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CSSP E-mail: cssp03linguist.jussieu.fr ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Claire Beyssade (CNRS-J. Nicod), Olivier Bonami (Chair, Rennes 2), Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS-Paris 8), Daniele Godard (CNRS-Paris 7)

    SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Claire Beyssade (CNRS-J. Nicod), Olivier Bonami (Rennes 2), Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS-Paris 8), Francis Corblin (Paris 4), Daniele Godard (CNRS-Paris 7), Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS-Paris 7)

    Message 2: Dans la jungle des discours

     Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 21:00:48 +0000
    From: sophie.marnette <sophie.marnettemodern-languages.oxford.ac.uk>
    Subject: Dans la jungle des discours


    Dans la jungle des discours (genres de discours et discours rapport�s) Short Title: Ci-Dit International Conf

    Date: 11-Mar-2004 - 14-Mar-2004 Location: Cadiz, Spain Contact: Sophie Marnette Contact Email: sophie.marnettemodern-languages.oxford.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.ci-dit.org

    Linguistic Sub-field: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Ling & Literature, Historical Linguistics, Discourse Analysis Subject Language: Romance, Germanic, English

    Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2003

    Meeting Description:

    International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Reported Discourse 11-14 March 2004 1, Cadiz, Spain Dans la jungle des discours (genres de discours et discours rapport�).

    Organised by Ci-Dit, an international and interdisciplinary research group for the study of reported discourse.

    Full details available at http://www.ci-dit.org

    Send one page abstract to Sophie Marnette, University of Oxford, UK, sophie.marnettemodern-languages.oxford.ac.uk

    Ci-Dit is an international and interdisciplinary research group which aims at furthering our knowledge and understanding of Speech & Thought Presentation in French. It endeavors to gather scholars coming from fields as diverse as linguistics, literature, stylistics, narratology, rhetoric, history, sociology and the sciences of communication by organizing workshops and conferences around the theme of Reported Discourse; Publishing special issues of scholarly journals and other types of collaborative work; Setting up a specialized, exhaustive and regularly updated bibliography on the internet; Collecting a corpus of spoken French specifically tagged and annotated for the study of Speech & Thought Presentation. Ci-dit's mailing list contains around 200 names from 17 countries in 4 different continents. The web site http://www.ci-dit.org gives access to our bibliography & advertises our projects.