[Fwd: ESSLLI 2008 workshop --Final CfP]

Mon Mar 3 17:03:18 UTC 2008

Hello everybody,

in case you haven't seen the call yet.
The deadline for submission is on Friday.

Best,

          Manfred.

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop
WHAT SYNTAX FEEDS SEMANTICS?
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/WhatSyntaxFeedsSemantics.html

organised as part of ESSLLI 2008
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/
11-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg, Germany

Organiser:
Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz: maribel.romero at uni-konstanz.de

Workshop Purpose:
The purpose of this workshop is to investigate on what kind of syntactic
representation semantic interpretation applies. A dominant trend defends
the existence of a covert level of representation, Logical Form (LF) in
Generative Grammar/Minimalism, mediating between surface syntax and the
semantic component. However, many of the original empirical reasons for LF
have been challenged, and, for many phenomena commonly attributed to LF,
alternative accounts exist that derive the semantics from the surface
syntax. Other grammar formalisms -e.g. TAG, HPSG, LFG, CCG- use different
syntactic inputs to arrive at the desired semantic interpretation. The
workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers (including advanced PhD
students) to present and discuss their work with colleagues working on the
same or on different frameworks, in connection with the broad subject
areas represented at ESSLLI.

Workshop Topics:
The workshop is concerned with topics where the debate on the
syntax-semantics mapping has been particularly active or can potentially
lead to new results. Topics include, but are not limited to:
* scope and Noun Phrases (NPS): quantificational NPs, plurals, branching
quantifier readings, etc.
* scope reconstruction
* connectivity effects (reflected in Binding Theory, NPI-licensing,
opacity, etc.)
* scope in degree constructions (comparatives, superlatives, etc.)
* ellipsis (VP-ellipsis, gapping, NP-ellipsis, etc.)
* representation and binding of pronouns
* representation and binding of world/situation variables
* representation and binding of temporal variables

Submission details: Authors are invited to submit an anonymous abstract
not exceeding 2 pages (including examples and references), on an 11pt font
and with 2cm per margin. The following formats are accepted: PDF, ASCII
text, WSWord. Please send your submission electronically by March 8, 2008
to the email address:
synsem.esslli08 at uni-konstanz.de
Please include the following information in the body of the email: title
of the paper
name of the author(s)
affiliation
contact address
email address
The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and
potentially 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 3 slots for paper presentation
and discussion per session. On the first day the workshop organizer will
give an introduction or extended lecture on the topic to familiarize the
audience with the phenomena.

Invited Speakers:
Arnim von Stechow
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania

Workshop Programme Committee:
Chris Barker, NYU
Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz
Daniel Hardt, Copenhagen Business School and languagelens
Pauline Jacobson, Brown University
Laura Kallmeyer, University of Tuebingen
Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz  (Chair)
Manfred Sailer, University of Goettingen
Uli Sauerland, ZAS
Philippe Schlenker, Institut Jean-Nicod and NYU
Yael Sharvit, University of Connecticut
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: March 8, 2008
Notification: April 21, 2008
Preliminary programme: April 24, 2008
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2008
Final papers for proceedings: May 17, 2008
Final programme: June 21, 2008
Workshop dates: August 11-15, 2008

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. There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and
accommodation.

Further Information:
About the workshop:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/WhatSyntaxFeedsSemantics.html
About ESSLLI: http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/

-- 
Manfred Sailer
Seminar fuer Englische Philologie
Kaete-Hamburger-Weg 3
37073 Goettingen, Germany
manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de
http://www.gwdg.de/~msailer2