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Thu Mar 11 2004

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  • Miguel.Rodriguez-Mondonedo, 35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society
  • George Tsoulas gt3, Strategies of Quantification

    Message 1: 35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society

     Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 11:59:45 -0500 (EST)
    From: Miguel.Rodriguez-Mondonedo <Miguel.Rodriguez-Mondonedouconn.edu>
    Subject: 35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society


    35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society Short Title: NELS 35

    Date: 22-Oct-2004 - 24-Oct-2004 Location: Storrs, CT, United States of America Contact: Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo Contact Email: nels35sp.uconn.edu Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.uconn.edu/nels35.html

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2004

    Meeting Description:

    The 35th Conference of the North Eastern Linguistic Society With a Special Session on Sign Languages October 22-24, 2004 University Of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut

    INVITED SPEAKERS Daniel Buring (UCLA) Anders Holmberg (University of Durham) Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut) Lisa Selkirk (University of Massachusetts)

    Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion) on any aspect of theoretical linguistics. Abstracts are also invited for a poster session. Please specify the sessions you would like to be considered for. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author.

    We are pleased to announce a SPECIAL SESSION on SIGN LANGUAGES. Abstracts are also invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion) within the special session on any topic related to the theoretical or experimental study of Sign Languages.

    All abstracts should be submitted as attachments, in PDF format only to the following email address:

    abs-nelsuconn.edu

    The filename should be unique. You should use your first name's initial and your last name to name your abstract. For example: John Smith's abstract would be named jsmith.pdf, NOT abstract.pdf or nels.pdf. The subject of the message should specify ''Abstract'', and the body should include the following information:

    author's name(s), affiliation and e-mail address title of abstract area of linguistics (syntax, phonology, etc.)

    Please specify whether you would like your abstract to be considered for:

    __ the main session __ the poster session __ the special session (multiple selections possible).

    Abstracts should be limited to one page (using 1'' margins on all sides and 11pt font size) with an optional additional page containing examples and references. Non-standard fonts and software should be avoided and all fonts should be embedded in the .pdf document.

    SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 15, 2004 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: August 15, 2004

    For more information, please visit

    http://www.linguistics.uconn.edu/nels35.html

    or contact the organizers at:

    nels35sp.uconn.edu

    Message 2: Strategies of Quantification

     Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:11:28 -0500 (EST)
    From: George Tsoulas gt3 <George>
    Subject: Strategies of Quantification


    Strategies of Quantification

    15-Jul-2004 - 17-Jul-2004 York, England, UK

    Contact Person: George Tsoulas Conference Email: lang29york.ac.uk Conference URL: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang29/events/conf/soq.html

    Linguistic Subfield: Semantics, Syntax

    Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2004

    Meeting Description:

    This conference aims to bring together researchers in the syntax and semantics of quantification and related fields with a special focus on the issues arising from the crosslinguistic study of quantifiers and quantification and their repercussions on the formal analysis of quantification. The conference is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, as part of the project ''Strategies of Quantification''

    Invited Speakers

    K. A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad) Edward L. Keenan (UCLA) Angelika Kratzer (UMass, Amherst) Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)

    Call for Papers

    Natural languages employ various strategies for the expression of quantificational notions. Ever since the publication of Bach et al. (eds)(1997) the crosslinguistic study of quantification has become a central topic of investigation. The extent to which the different strategies employed by various natural languages represent distinct possibilities or, rather, they are special cases of a general strategy, is a matter of controversy. For instance, determiner quantifiers heading their own projections, forming elements which can be analysed as generalised quantifiers, are used in manyIndo-European languages. On the other hand, languages such as Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, use wh-words (indeterminate pronouns) with suffixes denoting a.o. disjunction or conjunction. This latter strategy extends to A-quantifiers and covers quantifier, or quantifier-like meanings like polarity, free choice, arbitrariness and so on, though the finer distinctions within this domain are not so clear.

    >From a different perspective, the standard assumption that natural language quantifiers are invariably or primarily of type <<e,t>, t> has also recently been challenged. The questions to be addressed in this conference include, but are not limited to the following:

    - The semantics of indeterminates and the quantifiers based on them - The fine structure of polarity, free choice and arbitrariness - Types of quantificational force and how they are related - Quantification and the syntax-semantics interface - Comparative approaches to quantification - Formal issues in the theory of quantifiers (and how they relate to the crosslinguistic study of quantification)

    Submission procedure

    We invite papers from all theoretical perspectives. Abstracts for 45mn talks (including discussion) should not exceed 2 pages, using a font no smaller than 11pt and with at least 1in margins on all sides.

    Electronic submission is very highly encouraged. Send your abstract as an attachment to an email message to:

    lang29york.ac.uk

    The attachment must be in one of the following file formats: postscript (ps), pdf, dvi, ascii, doc (if you really can't avoid it). In the body of the message include your Name, Affiliation, and Title of the paper. If electronic submission is impossible, send 7 anonymous copies of your abstract to:

    Strategies of Quantification Department of Language and Linguistic Science University of York Heslington - York YO10 5DD England - UK

    Important Dates

    Submission Deadline: March 15 2004 Acceptance Notification: April 5 2004