CFP: Special Issue of _Research on Language and Computation_

[Manfred Sailer]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

CFP: Special Issue of _Research on Language and Computation_

First Call for Submissions
Special Issue of `Research on Language and Computation'

Topic of Special Issue:
Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to Strict Compositionality

Guest Editors:
Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer


The Workshop `Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to
Strict Compositionality' at ESSLLI'05 in Edinburgh
(www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/) brought together linguists
working in different grammatical frameworks to discuss current issues
of compositionality in semantics. The special issue of the Journal
of Research on Language and Computation is planned as a follow-up
to this workshop.

Topic:

Compositionality has been a key methodological theme in natural
language semantics. Recently, a number of innovative systems for
combinatorial semantics have been proposed which seem not to obey
compositionality at first sight. Such systems are based on
unification, underspecification, linear logic, categorial grammar,
variable free semantics, extensions of Montague Grammar, dynamic
semantics, and Tree Adjoining Grammar, to name the most prominent
research areas. The motivation behind these systems is often
computational in nature, but the mechanisms they employ also provide new
insights and analytical alternatives for outstanding problems in the
combinatorial semantics of natural languages. These include scope
ambiguities, multiple exponents of semantic operators, cohesion,
ellipsis, coordination, and modifier attachment ambiguities.

Papers should address the topic of compositionality either from an
empirical or from a logical perspective. We wish to invite papers
discussing linguistic data which pose a challenge to compositionality
as well as papers presenting new mechanisms for defining a
compositional semantics which can address well-known challenges in
innovative ways.

Workshop participants are particularly encouraged to develop journal
papers based on their contributions to the proceedings. However, we
would also like to see new submissions of work that was not presented
at the workshop. All papers will be subject to anonymous peer review
as arranged by the editors.

Submissions should not exceed 25 pages and should be in LaTeX. Authors
are kindly asked to use the LaTeX package from Springer recommended by
the Journal of Research on Language and Computation.  The LateX
packages are available through a link from

www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/compositionality/

If you would like to contribute but have a problem with submitting in
LaTeX, please contact the editors at the email address given below.


Schedule:

Submission deadline:    April 30th, 2006
Notification:           July   7th, 2006
Deadline for revisions: Sept   1st, 2006


Reviewing Committee:

Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
Markus Egg (Groningen)
Howard Gregory (Goettingen)
Fritz Hamm (Tübingen)
Wilfrid Hodges (London)
Theo M.V. Janssen (Amsterdam)
Graham Katz (Osnabrueck)
Albert Ortmann (Duesseldorf)
Gerald Penn (Toronto)
Adam Przepiórkowski (Warsaw)
Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht)
Zoltán Szabó (Ithaca)


Please send your submissions to Frank Richter at

                  fr at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de

Submissions should be received before May 1st, 2006.





-- 
Manfred Sailer
Seminar fuer Englische Philologie
Kaete-Hamburger-Weg 3
73073 Goettingen, Germany
manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de
http://www.gwdg.de/~msailer2