19-21 Dec 2011
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*Formal Semantic Evidence*
Workshop hosted by the
Amsterdam Colloquium <http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2011/>
December 19-21, 2011
Invited speakers
Richard Breheny
<http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/richardb/rbindex.html>, University
College London
Bart Geurts <http://ncs.ruhosting.nl/bart/>, Radboud University Nijmegen
Call for papersFormal semantics as a field of linguists undergoes a rapid
change with respect to the status of quantitative methodologies, the
application of which is gradually becoming a standard in the field,
replacing the good old 'armchair' methodology. In light of this development,
we invite submissions reporting of high level formal semantic research
benefiting from the use of a quantitative methodology, corpora-based,
experimental, neurolinguistic, computational or other. Ideal presentations
include informed reflections on the role of a particular methodology in
formal semantics.
- We welcome submissions focusing on wide spread, yet not unproblematic
or elusive semantic-pragmatic concepts such as 'context', 'accommodation',
'question under discussion', 'ordering source', and so forth; what
methodologies can shed new light on such notions and the way they might be
systematically studied and decoded?
- What kind of experimental evidence (if any) can bear on fundamental
issues such as the nature of the semantic lexicon on the one hand, and
compositionality and projection on the other? What is the nature of
semantic infelicity or markedness? What kind of experimental evidence (if
any) can support or refute hypotheses concerning the nature of the logical
form or its very existence? Concerning empty categories?
- Finally, can formal semantic tools contribute to our understanding of
experimental results and theoretical issues within cognitive psychology as
pertaining to natural language semantics?
Instructions for authors
Authors can submit *anonymous* abstracts of at most *two pages *via the
website of the Amsterdam
Colloquium<http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2011/#/Submission/>
.
Important dates
Submission deadline: September 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2011
Deadline for pre-proceedings: December 1, 2011
Deadline for registration: December 1, 2011
Conference: December 19 - 21, 2011
Organizers
Katrin Schulz <http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/k.schulz/>
Galit Weidman Sassoon <http://weidmans.info/Sassoon-Galit/>