LINGUIST List 25.909
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Feb 24 2014
FYI: Call for Book
Chapters: Compositionality and Concepts in
Linguistics and Psychology
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Uliana Kazagasheva <ulianalinguistlist.org>
Date: 24-Feb-2014
From: Choonkyu Lee
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Subject: Call for Book
Chapters: Compositionality and Concepts in
Linguistics and Psychology
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Call for Submission: Compositionality and
Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
Collected essays in a new Springer series
''Language, Cognition, and Mind'', edited by
James Hampton (City University London) and Yoad
Winter (Utrecht University).
One of the hardest problems in cognitive
psychology and experimental semantics is to
explain the way meanings of complex expressions
are derived from simple lexical concepts and
connected to concept representations. While
concepts corresponding to simple words can be
represented as feature lists or schematic
prototypes (Rosch & Mervis 1975, Hampton
2006), the ways in which such representations
may be derived for composite expressions is
highly puzzling, both in terms of experimental
measures and in terms of formal analysis
(Hampton & Jönsson 2012, Kamp & Partee
1995). Since the introduction of this problem
by Osherson & Smith (1981), much
experimental and theoretical work has been done
by cognitive psychologists on the derivation of
concept representations. However, in many ways
this work has been carried out independently of
related on-going work on meaning and use of
logical operators (Crain/Khlentzos 2008) and
compositionality (Bemis & Pylkkänen 2011).
As a result, the interactions between concept
combination, meaning and use of logical
concepts, and compositionality principles have
remained by and large underexplored.
We call for researchers in this
interdisciplinary domain to submit their work
to a new volume, Compositionality and Concepts
in Linguistics and Psychology, which will
appear in a new Springer series ''Language,
Cognition, and Mind''. The volume is edited by
James Hampton (City University London) and Yoad
Winter (Utrecht University).
The book will bring together for the first time
work done on this topic by researchers in
experimental semantics and psychology. The
articles in the volume tackle different
problems of concept composition. Taken
together, they will aim to describe the state
of the art in this interdisciplinary domain. An
introductory chapter will cover basic aspects
of the problems treated in the book, and the
significance of the different
contributions.
Submission details:
We welcome abstracts containing no more than 2
pages, on new experimental findings or formal
theoretical developments in the area of concept
composition. Please submit your abstract as a
PDF file via EasyChair (website below). At the
end of your abstract please add a short
academic CV.
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cclp2014
The essays in the volume will include a
selection of the work presented in a workshop
that took place at Utrecht University in
September 2013. For the workshop site, see:
http://logiccommonsense.wp.hum.uu.nl/events/workshop2013
Authors are encouraged to make their
submissions of relevance to the topics
addressed there.
Authors whose abstracts are selected will be
invited to submit their work to the volume. All
full submissions will undergo further peer
review before final acceptance.
Important dates:
Abstract submission: April 1, 2014
Notification about acceptance of proposal: May
1, 2014
For accepted proposals, submission of paper:
December 1, 2014
Selected References
Bemis, D. K. and L. Pylkkänen. 2011. Simple
Composition: An MEG investigation into the
comprehension of minimal linguistic phrases.
Journal of Neuroscience, 31(8): 2801-2814.
Crain, S. 2008. The interpretation of
disjunction in universal grammar. Language and
Speech 51, 151-169.
Crain, S. and D. Khlentzos. 2008. Is logic
Innate? Biolinguistics 2(1), 24-56.
Hampton, J. and M. L. Jönsson. 2012. Typicality
and compositionality: The logic of combining
vague concepts. In M. Werning, W. Hintzen and
E. Machery (Eds.), pp. 385-402. Oxford Handbook
of Compositionality. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Hampton, J. 2006. Concepts as Prototypes, in
B.H.Ross (ed.), The Psychology of Learning and
Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory,
Vol. 46. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 79-113.
Kamp, H. and B. Partee. 1995. Prototype Theory
and Compositionality. Cognition 57:129-191.
Osherson, D. and E. Smith. 1981. On the
adequacy of prototype theory as a theory of
concepts. Cognition 9:35-58.
Rosch, E. R. and C. B. Mervis. 1975. Family
resemblances: studies in the internal structure
of categories. Cognitive Psychology 7:
573-605.
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics;
Psycholinguistics; Semantics
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