18.2345, Calls: Applied,General Ling/USA; General Ling,Pragmatics/South Korea

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Subject: 18.2345, Calls: Applied,General Ling/USA; General Ling,Pragmatics/South Korea

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1)
Date: 07-Aug-2007
From: Rebekka Siemens < rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu >
Subject: Institute Field Linguistics and Language Documentation 

2)
Date: 07-Aug-2007
From: Chungmin Lee < clee at snu.ac.kr >
Subject: Workshop on Contrastiveness and/or Scalar Implicatures

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:21:56
From: Rebekka Siemens [rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu]
Subject: Institute Field Linguistics and Language Documentation
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Full Title: Institute Field Linguistics and Language Documentation 
Short Title: InField 

Date: 23-Jun-2008 - 03-Jul-2008
Location: Santa Barbara, California, USA 
Contact Person: Carol Genetti
Meeting Email: infield at linguistics.ucsb.edu
Web Site: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General
Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2007 

Meeting Description

The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, is pleased to announce the first:

Institute Field Linguistics and Language Documentation
(InField)

Workshops: June 23 - July 3, 2008
Field Training: July 7 - August 1, 2008
UC Santa Barbara Campus

The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed
for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to receive
training in current techniques and issues in language documentation,
language maintenance, and language revitalization. 

Call for Proposals 

Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization
to be held as part of 
InField: Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation

University of California, Santa Barbara
June 23rd - July 3rd, 2008

The Organizing Committee of InField solicits applications for workshops in
language documentation, language maintenance, and/or language
revitalization to be held as part of the Institute on Field Linguistics and
Language Documentation, at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
June 23rd - July 3rd, 2008. We particularly seek proposals from current
practitioners in this area, who would like to teach a workshop of two to
eight hours in length to an audience of practicing linguists, graduate
students in linguistics, and/or language activists with an interest in
documenting, maintaining, or revitalizing a language.

For a full description of InField, including workshops currently being
planned, visit the website at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield. 

The proposal should include a statement of the topic of the proposed
workshop, the rationale for including it as part of InField, the proposed
length of the workshop, and a brief description of the workshop content and
how it would be taught. Please keep proposals to a maximum of two-pages in
length. Please include also a statement of qualifications of the instructor.

Workshop instructors will receive reimbursement for travel, room and board,
and a modest honorarium. 

Proposals should be submitted to infield at linguistics.ucsb.edu. 

Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2007

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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:22:03
From: Chungmin Lee [clee at snu.ac.kr]
Subject: Workshop on Contrastiveness and/or Scalar Implicatures
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Full Title: Workshop on Contrastiveness and/or Scalar Implicatures 
Short Title: Cand/orSI (CIL18) 

Date: 21-Jul-2008 - 26-Jul-2008
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Chungmin Lee
Meeting Email: clee at snu.ac.kr
Web Site: http://www.cil18.org 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2007 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Contrastiveness in Information Structure and/or Scalar Implicatures

[Abstract deadline: August 31, 2007]

will be held in conjunction with the 18th International Congress of Linguists
(CIL 18), July 21-26, 2008, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

For more information, visit the website (http://www.cil18.org ) or contact the
organizer at clee at snu.ac.kr. 

Organizers: 

Chungmin Lee  
Seoul Nat'l University 
Email: clee at snu.ac.kr 
Cell phone: 82-10-8286-3886 
Fax: 82-2-880-1366

Ferenc Kiefer   
Hungarian Academy of Sciences  
Email: kiefer at nytud.hu 

Invited Speakers 

Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Laurence Horn (Yale)
Robert van Rooy (Amsterdam)
Arthur Merin (Konstanz) 
Enric Vallduvi (Pompeu Fabra)
Daniel Buring (UCLA)

Description  

It is fairly well established by now that meaning is regarded as representing
update potential rather than merely truth conditions, taking a dynamic
perspective on semantics and/or pragmatics. Topic - Focus information structure
becomes more complex because of discourse-connected, largely quantificational,
contrastiveness; sets of alternatives are involved in Contrastive Topic and
Contrastive Focus. Contrastiveness and the range of alternatives must be further
explored. 

At the same time, sets of alternatives are required in the computation of scalar
implicatures. What would be the range of relevant or comparable alternatives?
Gricean, neo-Gricean, relevance-theoretic or other 'relevant'? Utterances with
Contrastive Topic generate scalar implicatures. How other utterances generate
scalar implicatures? Is the exhaustivity operator exh good enough? What would be
an adequate representation - pragmatic, semantic or syntactic? How can a
game-theoretic approach serve as a new model? What other scales work except
Horn's entailment scales? We need a forum to discuss and resolve these
cutting-edge issues. 

Important Dates:

August 31, 2007: Deadline for submitting the abstract.
November 30, 2007: Notification of acceptance.

Form and submission of abstracts:

An abstract(.pdf or .doc file) should be up to 3 pages long, including data and
references. 

The abstract should start with the title of the paper, followed by the text of
the abstract.

Please do not include the author's name in the abstract. On a separate page,
please give the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number,
mailing address, the paper title and the session number(title).

All the invited and designated speakers are also requested to send their
abstracts by the same deadline (August 31, 2007) to help determine the number of
accepted abstracts in total and to include in the Proceed's of CIL 18 for the
prospective participants. 

Those who already submitted their abstracts can submit revised new versions by
the extended new deadline Aug 31, 2007.

Please send the abstract and the author's information to both cil18 at cil18.org
and clee at snu.ac.kr.

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