Formal Approaches to Sign Languages (Second Call for Papers)

[Mark A. Mandel]

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Date: 27-Jul-2009 - 31-Jul-2009
Location: Bordeaux, France
Contact Person: Carlo Cecchetto
Meeting Email: carlo.cecchetto at unimib.it
Web Site: http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/FASLcall.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Language Family(ies): Sign Language

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2009

Meeting Description:

This workshop is organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, 
Language and Information ESSLLI 2009 http://esslli2009.labri.fr to be held 
in Bordeaux (20-31 July, 2009) and is supported by the Department of 
Psychology of University of Milan-Bicocca.

Second Call for Papers

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2009

Workshop Topics:

The grammars of sign languages are as highly complex as the grammars of 
spoken languages and share with them many universal features, despite the 
difference in modality between spoken languages (which use the auditory 
channel) and sign languages (which use the visual channel). Yet, sign 
languages also differ from spoken languages in radical ways: morphological 
information in sign languages is often conveyed simultaneously by different 
articulators rather than linearly; moreover, certain aspects of their 
phonological, syntactic and semantic structures are not commonly found in 
spoken languages. These differences raise an interesting challenge for 
existing formal linguistic frameworks, which are designed to account for 
the grammars of spoken languages. By bringing together formal linguists 
working on sign languages, the workshop should contribute to meet this 
challenge.

Submission Details:

Authors are invited to submit an anonymous abstract (personal information 
should appear in the text of the e-mail accompanying the abstract). 
Submissions should not exceed 500 words. The following formats are 
accepted: PDF, Word, RTF. Please send your submission electronically to 
carlo.cecchetto at unimib.it by the deadline listed below. The submissions 
will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional 
reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings 
published by ESSLLI.

Workshop Format:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It 
will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in 
the second week of ESSLLI. There will be approximately 10 slots for 
selected papers (20 minutes for talk + 10 for discussion) and 3 invited 
talks.

Invited Speakers:
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)
Josep Quer (Pompeu Fabra University)

Important Dates:
Submissions: March 31, 2009
Notification: April 15, 2009
Preliminary programme: April 24, 2009
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2009
Final papers for proceedings: May 15, 2009
Final programme: June 15, 2009
Workshop dates: 27-31 July, 2009

Local Arrangements:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to 
register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper 
will correspond to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. 
Moreover, a number of additional fee waiver grants will be made available 
on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply for 
those. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. 
Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the 
local organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.

Further Information:
About this workshop: http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/FASLcall.htm
About ESSLLI: http://esslli2009.labri.fr

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