CFP: Text Structure 2010

[manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de]

* Apologies for multiple postings *

** First Call For Papers **


                       International Meeting on
            Text Structure: Form, Meaning, and Processing

                             1.-3.7.2010
                         Universität Göttingen

While the description and theoretical analysis of isolated levels of text
structure has matured substantially over the last thirty years, we are
only beginning to understand the interaction between different levels and
the surplus literary effects created by such interactions. In addition to
methods of formal syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, strongly empirically
oriented subdisciplines of linguistics such as corpuslinguistic and
psycholinguistic have provided central insights for the study of
linguistic phenomena beyond the sentence level. It is also necessary to
include typological and variationist perspectives to identify the full
range and the relative impact of factors and means exploited in the
structuring of text in the languages of the world.

We welcome submissions addressing issues of text structure form various
perspectives such as syntax, formal semantics and pragmatics, typology,
psycholinguistics, or computational linguistics. The topics may include
but are not restricted to

    * information structure
    * differences between subordination and co-ordination
    * discourse conditions on the use of non-canonical structures
    * resolution of cross-sentential anaphora or elipsis
    * discourse relations
    * modelling of contextual parameters
    * the influence of tense, mood, and aspect on text structure
    * discourse particles
    * typological variation
    * text structure in signed and spoken modality
    * the linguistic study of literary texts

** Invited Speakers **

Barbara Kaup (Tübingen)
Josep Quer (Barcelona)


** Submission **

Abstracts should be anonymous and at most 2 pages in length. Please send
your abstracts electronically in pdf- or doc-format to

text2010 at uni-goettingen.de

and include your name, affiliation and the title of the abstract in the
body of the e-mail. Submissions will be reviewed by two reviewers.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 15, 2010
Notification: April 8, 2010


** Organization **

This meeting is organized by the network "Constraint-based Grammar"
(CoGETI) and the principle investigators of the Courant Research Center
"Multi-layered Text Protocol".

Anke Holler
Manfred Sailer
Markus Steinbach

** Conference web site **

www.gwdg.de/~text2010/


-- 
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