ESSLLI-99

[Francesco Orilia]

Attached please find a call for papers for a worshop that I am 
organizing for the European Summer School in Logic Language and 
Information in Utrecht, next August.

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ESSLLI-99
WORKSHOP: FOUNDATIONS OF INTENSIONAL LOGIC AND NATURAL 
LANGUAGE SEMANTICS
CALL FOR PAPERS

The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and
Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and
computation. It is organized under the auspices of the European
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). Foundational,
introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide
variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation,
Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language
and Logic.  Previous summer schools have been highly successful,
attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere.  The school
has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion
for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study
of Logic, Language and Information.
 ESSLLI-99 will take place at the University of Utrecht, The
 Netherlands, 
August 9-20. In its first week it will feature a worskshop on
FOUNDATIONS OF INTENSIONAL LOGIC AND NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS. Its
aim is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other
researchers to present and discuss their work on the following issues.
Intensional logic lies at the heart of a Montague-style natural
language semantics. It involves a representation of properties,
relations and propositions (PRPs). In traditional Montague Grammar,
PRPs are characterized in terms of possible worlds, and the
logico-semantic paradoxes are avoided by using a Russellian hierarchy
of types. The problems with this traditional approach (e.g., logical
omniscience and expressive limitations) have led to the flourishing of
more fine- grained notions of PRP, and to type-free solutions to the
paradoxes (Gupta and Belnap, Barwise and Etchemendy, Cocchiarella,
Bealer, Asher and Kamp, Chierchia and Turner, etc.). The new
approaches have problems of their own and no new framework has become
standard. This workshop thus will explore and compare well- known or
newly proposed foundational approaches for an intensional logic that
can serve the purposes of natural language semantics. If you are
interested in presenting your research, please send a two page
abstract to:

Francesco Orilia						orilia at unimc.it
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Umane			ph. +39 (0733) 258 305
Universit=E0 di Macerata					fax  +39 (0733) 235 339 62100 Macerata
Italy

The submission deadline is: March 15, 1999.
Workshop speakers will pay a reduced ESSLI-99 registration fee, which
will entitle them to attend all other courses and workshops. It may be
possible to allocate a sum of about 100 ECU to partially cover the
expenses of each workshop speaker. There will soon  be an ESSLLI'99
web page at: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/.