30.4367, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/China

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Subject: 30.4367, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/China

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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 04:35:57
From: Mingming Liu [markliu at mail.tsinghua.edu.cn]
Subject: 2nd Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning: Monotonicity in Logic and Language

 
Full Title: 2nd Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning: Monotonicity in Logic and Language 
Short Title: TLLM2020 

Date: 10-Apr-2020 - 12-Apr-2020
Location: Beijing, China 
Contact Person: Mingming Liu
Meeting Email: markliu at mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Web Site: http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?p=1489 

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

Monotonicity, in various forms, is a pervasive phenomenon in logic,
linguistics, and related areas. In theoretical linguistics, monotonicity
properties (and lattice-theoretic notions such as additivity), as semantic
properties of intra-sentential environments, determine the syntactic
distribution of a class of terms robustly attested across languages called
Negative Polarity Items, such as English any, and is relevant to a large array
of semantic phenomena such as the interpretation of donkey pronouns, plural
definites, plural morphemes and so on, and to the presence of pragmatic
inferences such as scalar implicatures. 

In logic and mathematics, a function f between pre-ordered sets is monotone or
increasing (antitone or decreasing) if x ≤ y implies f(x) ≤ f(y) (f(y) ≤
f(x)). Monotonicity guarantees the existence of fixed points (points x such
that f(x)=x) and the well-formedness of inductive definitions, and logical
languages with expressive means for talking about fixed points, such as
first-order fixed point logic or the modal µ-calculus, is a growing area of
study in logic and computer science. Also, monotonicity is closely tied to
reasoning, in formal as well as natural languages. Corresponding to the
semantic properties of monotonicity and antitonicity there is the syntactic
property of (positive or negative) polarity. Monotonicity Reasoning, which
involves replacement of predicates in syntactic contexts of given polarity, is
a simple yet surprisingly powerful mode of inference. Starting with work of
van Benthem and Sánchez-Valencia in the 1980s, the idea of Natural Logic,
comprising algorithms for polarity marking and formal calculi for monotonicity
reasoning, is an active research project. Likewise, much of the current study
of syllogistic reasoning formally exploits patterns of monotonicity. 

Recent logical and linguistic work on monotonicity has also found its way into
computation systems for natural language processing (e.g. systems for
Recognizing Textual Entailment), and cognitive models of human reasoning. 

The goal of our workshop is to bring together researchers working on
monotonicity or related properties, from different fields and perspectives. 

Invited Speakers:

Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
Jo-wang Lin (Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam)
Jakub Szymanik (University of Amsterdam)


2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts are not to exceed two pages of A4 or letter-sized paper, including
data and references, preferably with 1″ (2.54cm) margins on all sides, set in
a font no smaller than 11 points. The abstract should have a clear title and
should not identify the author(s).

The abstract must be submitted electronically in PDF format, via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tllm2020

Papers from the workshop will be published (after peer review) in the FoLLI
LNCS series.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of
their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their
papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf
of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a
Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form
should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have
been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot
be made. The appropriate links should be made available to the authors.

Please also check our website: http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/?page_id=1576




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