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Fri Apr 16 2004

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    Message 1: Midwest Modern language Association

     Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:35:40 -0400 (EDT)
    From: jamberg <jambergycp.edu>
    Subject: Midwest Modern language Association


    Midwest Modern language Association Short Title: M/MLA

    Date: 04-Nov-2004 - 07-Nov-2004 Location: St Louis, Missouri, United States of America Contact: Julie Amberg Contact Email: jambergycp.edu Meeting URL: http://uiowa.edu/~mmla.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics ,Historical Linguistics ,Linguistic Theories

    Subject Language: English

    Call Deadline: 15-May-2004

    Meeting Description:

    Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association Issues in Language and Linguistics. We invite proposals dealing with the following and related areas of interest: intersections of language and technology, innovative pedagogies for language and linguistics, perspectives on grammar usage, American English dialects, history of American English, and language and power.

    Message 2: 2004 Milan Meeting

     Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:41:44 -0400 (EDT)
    From: francesca.panzeri <francesca.panzeriunimib.it>
    Subject: 2004 Milan Meeting


    2004 Milan Meeting Short Title: MM04

    Date: 10-Jun-2004 - 12-Jun-2004 Location: Gargnano sul Garda, Italy Contact: Sandro Zucchi Contact Email: alessandro.zucchiunimi.it Meeting URL: http://filosofia.dipafilo.unimi.it/~zucchi/MM2004.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: Philosophy of Language ,Semantics

    Call Deadline: 17-Apr-2004

    Meeting Description:

    THE 2004 MILAN MEETING ON COVERT VARIABLES AT LOGICAL FORM A formal semantics conference JUNE 10 -- 12, 2004 Universit� degli Studi di Milano Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano, on lake Garda Invited speakers: ANGELIKA KRATZER FRANCOIS RECANATI MATS ROOTH JASON STANLEY 2004 Milan Meeting

    ***Last Call for Papers***

    Call Deadline: 17-Apr-2004 MM04 CALL FOR PAPERS

    The 2004 Milan Meeting will take place from June 10 to June 12, 2004. It will be held at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano, on lake Garda. The Milan meeting is a formal semantics conference.

    The theme of the meeting: Covert Variables at Logical Form

    In recent times, a debate has taken place on the articulation of propositional constituents at the level of Logical Form. The debate has focused on the issue whether (a) there exist propositional constituents that are freely contributed by the context without being articulated at LF or (b) propositional constituents provided by the context and lacking overt linguistic counterparts are always realized at LF by covert variables whose values are contextually determined (see, for example, recent work by Stanley, Recanati, Perry, and others). The issue has wide ranging consequences for the nature (and existence) of a linguistic level of sentence meaning generated by the grammars of natural languages. While this debate is foundational in nature, it draws on current semantic analyses of phenomena like temporal and spatial reference, adverbial modification, domain restriction on quantification, ecc. Indeed, appeal to LF covert variables whose value is contextually furnished is a formal device often adopted by natural language semanticists investigating these phenomena. The goal of the meeting is to bring together semanticists that work at specifying the nature of LF covert variables and philosophers of language and logicians engaged by the foundational and methodological issues raised by positing these variables.

    Submission of abstracts

    The meeting will include 10 contributed talks of 30 minutes each (plus a discussion of 15 minutes) and five invited talks of 45 minutes each (plus a discussion of 15 minutes). People who want to contribute a talk are requested to send an e-mail message to the following address: milanmeetingunimi.it

    The text of the message should specify the author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address and the title of the contribution. The message should contain as an attachment an anonymous two page abstract (1000 words at most ) in pdf or rtf format.

    The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 17th, 2004. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 30th 2004.

    Organizing Committee

    The organizing committee of the 2004 Milan Meeting has the following members: Andrea Bonomi, Paolo Casalegno, Carlo Cecchetto, Gennaro Chierchia, Stefano Predelli, Achille Varzi, Orin Percus, Ernesto Napoli, Marina Sbisa�, Elisa Paganini, Fabio Del Prete, Fabrizio Arosio, Francesca Panzeri, Claudia Bianchi, Sandro Zucchi.

    Location of the meeting: Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano (Brescia), ITALY

    The meeting will take place at Palazzo Feltrinelli, on Lake Garda. This historical Villa is now owned by the University of Milan and is dedicated to workshop and meeting activities. Gargnano is a small resort village on Lake Garda, about 100 km east of Milan.

    Foreign participants are advised to travel to Milano. People arriving by plane can reach Milano Centrale Railway Station (http://www.fs-on-line.com/) in about one hour from Malpensa airport, where most overseas flights land, in about one hour from Orio al Serio airport, where Ryanair flights land, and in about 20 minutes from Linate Airport (http://www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/) where most other flights land. Public transport to Milano Railway Stations is available by bus from all airports and by train + underground from Malpensa airport; a taxi service is also available at a much higher rate.

    Once you are in Milan, you can reach Gargnano in two ways: by train+bus or directly by bus. You can take a train to Brescia from Milano Centrale Railway Station, then take a bus from Brescia to Gargnano (each trip takes about one hour). Buses leave Brescia for Gargnano about every hour. Or you can take a bus from Piazza Castello directly to Gargnano (the trip takes about three hours).

    Accommodation

    Accommodation is provided by within the Palazzo (12 single rooms and five double rooms) and at the adjacent Casa ''F. Bertolini'' (five single rooms and four double rooms). One night+breakfast is 19.26 euros at Palazzo Feltrinelli and 23.65 at Casa Bertolini.

    Further information

    For further information and updates you can check the following website: http://filosofia.dipafilo.unimi.it/~zucchi/MM2004.html or you can write to alessandro.zucchiunimi.it