20-23 Feb 2015
Szklarska Poreba, Poland
Call for papers
Linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and interested
researchers from other areas are cordially invited to join the 16th Workshop
on the Roots of Pragmasemantics to be held on the top of the Szrenica
mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech
Republic on 20-23 February 2015.
The two main themes of this year's convention are (1) "Mental Representation
of Semantic and Pragmatic Lexical Knowledge" and (2) "The Role of
Linguistics in the Cognitive Sciences". The first theme will be taking up
recent discussions of mental representation in linguistics (e.g., frames),
computational linguistics (e.g., distributional knowledge combined with
other representation), and cognitive science (e.g., embodied cognition), and
hopes for contributions from different disciplinary perspectives. Given the
strong methodological and theoretical influence by other disciplines on
linguistics, our second theme will address the current state and future of
linguistics: Are there properly linguistic objects of investigation? What
contributions from linguistics can the cognitive sciences hope for? We
especially invite submissions related to these topics but also welcome
contributions relevant to any of the more classical subjects of this
workshop series. Experimental as well as theoretical approaches are welcome.
We in particular encourage the presentation of innovative ideas, even if
still in need of later refinement.
Confirmed invited speakers are Jaroslav Peregrin (Charles University
Prague), Judith Tonhauser (Ohio State University, with 97% certainty), Berit
Gehrke (CNRS / Paris Diderot) and Reinhard Blutner (retired, University of
Amsterdam).
We invite submission of blind abstracts of no longer than 250 words in PDF,
to be sent to szklarskaporebaworkshop16@gmail.com.
Relevant topics for the themes include:
Mental representation of lexical knowledge
Embodied Cognition and the role of sensorimotor activation in language
processing
Interrelations between linguistics and (other) cognitive sciences
Objects of investigation for linguistics
And more traditional Szklarska Poreba themes:
coordination on meaning
inference in natural language
experimental semantics and pragmatics
Bayesian models of interpretation
quantum cognition and language
grammaticalisation and other approaches to diachrony
language typology and semantics/pragmatics
game theoretical pragmatics
formal models of language acquisition
explicature and implicature
The architecture of the syntax/semantics interface
Licensing of polarity elements, quantification, etc.
The evolution of communication and language
Optimality theory
Dates
Deadline for abstracts: 5 January
Decision: 15 January
Workshop: 20-23 February
Organizers and contact details
Workshop Director: Susanna Melkonian (HHU Dsseldorf), smelkonian (at) phil
(dot) uni-duesseldorf (dot) de.
Program Director: Alexandra Redmann (HHU Dsseldorf), a (dot) redmann (at)
phil (dot) uni-duesseldorf (dot) de.
For the standing committee: Henk Zeevat (ILLC, University of Amsterdam),
henk (dot) zeevat (at) uva (dot) nl.
For queries and abstracts: workshop email: szklarskaporebaworkshop16@gmail.com
Standing Committee
Justyna Grudzińska (Warszawa)
Berit Gehrke (CNRS / Paris Diderot)
Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin, chair)
Edgar Onea (University of Goettingen)
Lotte Hogeweg (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Nina Gierasimczuk (lLLC, Amsterdam)
Consultants
Henk Zeevat (ILLC, Amsterdam)
Reinhard Blutner (retired, University of Amsterdam)