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9th Symposium on Logic and Language, Budapest, Hungary, August 2006 [deadline: March 26!]

The Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language
Budapest/Besenyotelek, Hungary
August 24-26, 2006
http://www.nytud.hu/lola9
e-mail: lola9@nytud.hu

!!! EXTENDED DEADLINE: 26 March!!!

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences is pleased to announce the Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language,
to be held on August 24-26, 2006 in Besenyotelek, Hungary. (Organized
transportation from Budapest will be provided.)

The 2006 meeting is the ninth installment of the Symposium series, which
is designed to provide a forum where logicians and linguists can meet to
share and discuss ideas and issues about how linguistics and logic
influence each other, with the aim of promoting a fruitful cooperation.
Preceding symposiums took place in Debrecen (1987), Hajduszoboszlo (1989),
Revfulop (1990), Budapest (1992), Noszvaj (1994), Budapest (1998), Pecs
(2002), and Debrecen (2004).

Symposium theme: information structure

The organisers invite papers proposing semantic/pragmatic analyses of
empirical data illustrating the structuring of information in natural
language, both at the sentence and the discourse level. The range of
possible topics include (but is not limited to) the interpretation of
topicalisation and focusing, the thetic/categorical distinction, the study
of presuppositions, and the functions of discourse particles and discourse
connectives.

Invited speakers:
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London)
Marcus Kracht  (UCLA)
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University/ZAS, Berlin)
Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

The individual presentations are planned to last for 40 minutes (30
minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for discussion).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 20, 2006 Notification of
acceptance: April 20, 2006

Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format (a maximum of two
abstracts per person, one single-authored and one co-authored). The
abstracts should be a maximum of four pages, including examples and
references. Submissions should be sent to: lola9@nytud.hu.

A proceedings will be published by the conference date. The guidelines for
the submission of 8-page articles will be made available on the homepage
for the prospective authors by the time of the notification of acceptance.

Deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings: July 9, 2006

Venue, transportation:
The symposium, following the tradition of the first meetings in the
1980s, will take place in the Hungarian countryside, in a hotel with
conference facilites, to provide the participants the possibility for
discussion in a more informal setting. The venue of the 2006 symposium
is Hotel Fauna, situated near Besenyotelek, 120 km east of Budapest
(www.hotelfauna.hu). Hotel Fauna is at the edge of the Lake Tisza
region, the second biggest lake of Hungary, offering plenty of
opportunities for eco-tourism (with a bird nature reserve) and for a
more traditional vacation (www.tisza-to-info.hu).

There will be a bus on the evening of August 23 taking participants from
Budapest to the conference location. Public transportation is also
available for travelling to and from Budapest, with a major railway
station with direct (including Intercity) trains to and from Budapest 10
km from the conference site.

Registration:
The registration fee will include transportation to the conference
site, accommodation from the evening of August 23 through the morning
of August 26, meals (with a vegetarian menu available), coffee breaks,
the proceedings, an excursion into the nature reserve area, and wine
tasting, and is expected to be between 250 and 300 EUR.

Registration deadline: June 1, 2006

Organizing committee:
Kinga Gardai
Beata Gyuris
Laszlo Kalman
Chris Pinon
Karoly Varasdi


Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: ***extended to March 26, 2006***
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2006
Registration deadline: June 1, 2006
Deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings: July 9, 2006
LoLa9: August 24-26, 2006





Symposium on Logic and Language 9
Budapest/Besenyotelek, Hungary
August 24-26, 2006
www.nytud.hu/lola9