workshop call

[Hana Filip]

			 ESSLLI 2000 Workshop on
		
	          PATHS AND TELICITY IN EVENT STRUCTURE

			  August 6 - 10, 2000

		      A workshop held as part of the
       Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
			    ESSLLI-2000
   	     August 6 - 18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain


	 	     **  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS  **

  		  Submission Deadline: April 15, 2000


ORGANIZER: Hana Filip, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
		

DESCRIPTION:
The workshop focuses on the structuring of eventuality types
by means of Paths, with special reference to the sources of
telicity effects that are related to Paths in the concrete
spatial domain, but also in a variety of other domains: cp.
"John ran along/toward/into the house", "The train squealed
into/out of the station", "John hammered the metal flat".

The structure of eventuality types and spatial relations are clearly
central to our understanding of categories encoded in linguistic
expressions and to our understanding of human cognition.  Several
research domains--linguistics, cognitive science, artificial
intelligence and psychology--have focused on different
aspects of these topics.  While significant breakthroughs have
been achieved in all these domains, the theoretical structures
proposed tend to share little in common.  One of the goals of this
workshop is to bring to the fore the connections among them,
and ultimately to show how a synthesis of the relevant results
can be useful in the formulation of linguistic hypotheses in
the domain event structure and telicity, and in providing empirical
motivation for them.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working
on linguistic, logical, computational and/or psychological
aspects of the workshop topic, and submissions from all these areas
of research are welcome.

Topics of the workshop will include (but are not limited to)
the following four main areas:

(1) the ingredients of a general semantic framework for the
representation of eventuality types involving Paths in a variety
of dimensions, and for the calculation of the telic and atelic
interpretation of sentences in which Paths of various types
are crucially implicated;
	
(2) representational issues at the level of event structure,
and the mapping between event structure and syntax;
the treatment of mismatches between semantic and syntactic categories
(in terms of general compositional rules vs. other kinds of mechanism,
such as telicity shifts and coercion, underspecification at the level
of verbal and/or phrasal meanings);

(3) mathematical, logical and computational aspects of modelling of
spatial relations (e.g., the axis and vector grammars, and their suitability
for describing directional expressions in human language);

(4) the possibility of identifying universals of basic spatial terms
that may pre-linguistically available to human beings and that are
subject to modification by linguistic (and extra-lingustics) experience.


SUBMISSION:
All researchers, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are
invited to submit an abstract by April 15, 2000.  Electronic submissions are
highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript).  Abstracts
should not exceed 2 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in 10-12 points,
with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted abstracts should
be anonymous and be accompanied by the following details:

 - Title
 - Authors' names and affiliation
 - Address
 - E-mail addresses

Submissions should be sent before April 15, 2000 to the following
address:

Hana Filip
Department of Linguistics
Northwestern University
2016 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-4090
USA
	
Tel: 847-491-7020
Fax: 847-491-3770

e-mail: filip at babel.ling.nwu.edu	
	
If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of the
paper to the above address. Informal enquiries by e-mail to
the organizer are most welcome.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit full papers by
June 1, 2000. Papers should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages,
typeset in 10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins.
The papers will be made available in a summer school reader.
If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, they may be
published in an edited volume.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   April 15, 2000: Deadline for abstract submissions
   May 1,    2000: Notification of acceptance
   June 1,   2000: Final version of paper due
   August 6, 2000: Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION:

To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/