16.130, Confs: Ling Theories/Pragmatics/Semantics/Kyoto, Japan

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Date: 15-Jan-2005
From: J.-R. Hayashishita < hayashishita at alumni.usc.edu >
Subject: Language Under Uncertainty: Modals, Evidentials, and Conditionals

	
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:17:58
From: J.-R. Hayashishita < hayashishita at alumni.usc.edu >
Subject: Language Under Uncertainty: Modals, Evidentials, and Conditionals


Language Under Uncertainty: Modals, Evidentials, and Conditionals

Date: 21-Jan-2005 - 23-Jan-2005
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Contact: J.-R. Hayashishita
Contact Email: langlogic-hmn at bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Meeting URL: http://www.hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/langlogic/symposium-a/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

This workshop is hosted by 'Language and Logic', the 36th group in the
research project 'Towards a Center of Excellence for the Study of
Humanities in the Age of Globalization' at Kyoto University.

Conference URL (coming up in a while):

http://www.hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/langlogic/symposium-a/

Invited Speakers (confirmed):
Cleo Condoravdi (PARC and Stanford University)
Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin)
James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)

Synopsis:
Speakers frequently make assertions based on partial knowledge,
inconclusive evidence, or unreliable sources of information.  All languages
provide inventories of expressions of uncertainty, of which modals,
evidentials and conditionals are typical examples.  Both within and across
languages, such expressions exhibit great variation in their syntactic and
semantic properties, pragmatic conditions on use, and interactions with
other grammatical categories such as tenses, discourse particles, and
quantifiers.  Despite much recent work on their properties and
idiosyncrasies, the cross-linguistic study of such expressions is hampered
by a lack of agreement on terminological and methodological questions on
the one hand, and limitations on the applicability and expressive power of
standard logical analysis tools, on the other.

This conference aims to address this situation by bringing together
researchers working in areas including (but not limited to):

- the descriptive and typological study of modals, evidentials, and
conditionals;
- the syntax and semantics of particular expressions and their interaction
with tenses and other grammatical categories;
- the development of new and refined formal analytical tools to meet the
needs of linguistic theory.

Program Committee:
Cleo Condoravdi (PARC and Stanford University)
Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin)
Takao Gunji (Kobe Shoin)
James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
Ikumi Imani (Nagoya Gakuin)
Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University)
Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR)
Hiroshi Mito (Osaka University)
Shigeru Sakahara (Tokyo University)
Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)

Local Organizers:
Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto University)
Takao Gunji (Kobe Shoin)
J.-R. Hayashishita (Kyoto University)
Yukinori Takubo (Kyoto University)

Dear All:

As a part of the 21st-Century Center of Excellence Program accorded to
Kyoto University for 2004, Towards a Center of Excellence for the Study of
Humanities in the Age of Globalization, Group 36 (Project Leader: Yukinori
Takubo) and the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for the Scientific Research, (A)(1),
Project No.: 15202009 (Project Leader: Takao Gunji), we will host the
following international symposium:

Language under Uncertainty: Modals, Evidentials, and Conditionals
Date: January 21st-23rd, 2005
Location: Kyodai Kaikan (for 1/21), Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial
Hall (for 1/22 and 1/23)
Keynote Speakers:
Cleo Condoravdi (PARC and Stanford University)
Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin)
James Higginbotham (University of Southern California)
Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam)

The details of the conference is found at the following website:
http://www.hmn.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/langlogic/symposium-a/index.html

We would like to invite you to all the sessions (on 1/21-23) and the
reception (on 1/21).  The admission for all the sessions is free, but if
you wish to participate in the reception, we would like to receive 3,000
JPY (if you are a student, 1,500 JPY) from you.

We look forward to seeing you in Kyoto.

Sincerely,

Local Organizers:
Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto University)
Takao Gunji (Kobe Shoin Woman University)
J.-R. Hayashishita (Kyoto University)
Yukinori Takubo (Kyoto University)





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