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Date: 03-Aug-2023
From: Mingming Liu [markliu at scarletmail.rutgers.edu]
Subject: 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning

Full Title: 4th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic,
Language, and Meaning
Short Title: TLLM2024

Date: 30-Mar-2024 - 31-Mar-2024
Location: Beijing, China
Contact Person: Mingming Liu
Meeting Email: markliu at scarletmail.rutgers.edu
Web Site: http://tsinghualogic.net/JRC/tllm/2024connectives/

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

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

The propositional connectives – and, or, not, if-then, etc. – are
fundamental building blocks in formal as well as natural languages. In
the Western tradition, they were first studied as such by the Stoics,
and Propositional Logic is the fundament of practically all current
systems of logic; every beginning logic course starts with it. Still,
the proof theory and semantics of systems of propositional logic are
far from trivial, and have been studied intensely by logicians in the
last one and a half century, not least in recent decades. It is
actually a vast area of research, as witnessed by Lloyd Humberstone’s
1500 page tome The Connectives (2011), which overviews much of that
research. Perhaps the most familiar recent work in this area concerns
conditionals in formal and natural languages. In this workshop we also
focus on the apparently simpler connectives expressing (various
versions of) conjunction, disjunction, and negation.

Researchers working from a cross-linguistic perspective also focus on
how the connectives are encoded in different languages, and ask
whether classical logic is capable of capturing the variations and
universals exhibited. Even in well-studied languages like English,
there are intricate phenomena that remain challenging for classical
logic, including free choice disjunction, non-boolean conjunction,
metalinguistic negation, to name just a few. There is also growing
interest in the acquisition and processing of natural language
connectives. In the context of the hotly discussed Large Language
Models (LLMs), understanding connectives presents novel challenges
that deserve in-depth exploration.

The idea behind the TLLM workshops is to bring together logicians and
linguists around a specific theme of common interest. Thus, we welcome
contributions on any general or particular aspect of the propositional
connectives in logic or language.

Call for Papers:

Examples of possible topics for this workshop:

- semantics of negation: classical, non-classical, contra-classical
- inclusive versus exclusive disjunction in natural languages
- the meaning of connectives: model-theoretic, proof-theoretic,
game-theoretic,…
- non-classical connectives: in intuitionistic logic, linear logic,
relevance logic, orthologic, etc.
- free choice disjunction
- boolean and non-boolean conjunction
- acquisition of natural language connectives
- cross-linguistic variations of natural language connectives
- role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in understanding connectives:
challenges, capabilities, and implications

We invite submissions of 2-page abstracts (including references) on
any of the broad themes related to the connectives in logic and
language as suggested above. After a review procedure, authors of
accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to present their papers
at the workshop. After the workshop, a volume of full papers (properly
refereed) will be published in the Springer LNCS – FoLLI series.
Details on submission of full papers will follow.

Invited Speakers:
Wesley Holliday (UC Berkeley)
Christoph Harbsmeier (University of Oslo)
Jacopo Romoli (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Fan Yang (University of Utrecht)

Registration fee

Earlier workshops had no registration fee, since they were mostly
online, but for this onsite workshop there is a small registration
fee, to cover some of the costs.

Student: 100 US dollars
Non-student: 150 US dollars

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