Postgraduate Conference in Semantics

[Andrea Sanso']

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		       *** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS   ***


 -- First Postgraduate Linguistics Conference at the University of Pavia--

		Issues in Inter- and Intraclausal Semantics
		
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GOAL AND TOPICS

We are pleased to announce the First Pavia Postgraduate Conference in
Linguistics to be held in Pavia, Italy, from November 24-25, 2000.

The conference aims to bring together young researchers from different
theoretical backgrounds but with a common interest in semantics.

We encourage submissions related but not limited to the following topics:

- Lexical and Constructional Semantics
- Event Structure
- Tense, Aspect, and Modality
- Information Structure
- Anaphoric Strategies
- Cohesion


PRESENTATIONS

Presentations will be 20 minutes long plus 10 minutes discussion. The
conference language is English.
Selected papers will be published in the form of proceedings.


ABSTRACTS

Abstracts must be no longer than 2 A4 pages (figures and references
included) with margins of at least 2.5cm on all sides. Type must be no
smaller than 12 points. We stronly encourage electronic submission (.rtf,
.ps, .pdf): send abstract to one of the organizers (e-mail addresses
below). If sent by surface mail (see address below), please include
disk. Include affiliation and contact address on abstract.
Deadline for abstracts submission: September 25, 2000.
Notification of acceptance: October 16, 2000.


INVITED SPEAKERS

- Klaus von Heusinger (Universitaet Konstanz, Germany)
- Arie Verhagen (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)


REGISTRATION

The registration fee is 25000 lire (about 8, $13, 25DM) and includes
conference materials and refreshments.


ACCOMMODATION

Details about accommodation will be given in our second circular (October
17, 2000).


ORGANIZERS

Cristiano Broccias (cribroc at tin.it), University of Pavia
Malvina Nissim (malvina at grendel.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de), University of
Pavia
Andrea Sanso' (sanso at ling.unipi.it), University of Pavia


ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE

First Pavia Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
Dipartimento di Linguistica
Universita' di Pavia
Corso Strada Nuova, 65
27100 Pavia
Italy


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts submission: September 25, 2000.
Acceptance notification: October 16, 2000.
Second circular (programme and accommodation): October 17, 2000.
Conference: November 24-25, 2000.
Written papers submission: February 1, 2001.