Eighth Symposium on Logic and Language (LOLA-8) -- Second CFP

[Detmar Meurers]

The Eighth Symposium on Logic and Language (Second CFP)
Debrecen, Hungary
August 26-28, 2004

homepage: http://lola8.unideb.hu

The Eighth Symposium on Logic and Language will be held in Debrecen from
26th to 28th of August, 2004. The Symposium is organised by the
Linguistics Department and the Philosophy Department of the University
of Debrecen, in conjunction with the Research Institute for Linguistics
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest).

The 2004 forum is the eighth instalment of the Logic and Language
Symposium series, which is designed to provide a forum where logicians
and linguists meet to share and discuss current issues concerning how
theories of linguistics and logic influence each other, with the aim of
promoting a fruitful cooperation. Preceding symposiums took place in
Debrecen (1987), Hajduszoboszlo (1989), Revfulop (1990), Budapest
(1992), Noszvaj (1994), Budapest (1998) and Pecs (2002).

THEMES

The Eighth Symposium on Logic and Language invites submissions for
25-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) especially on
the various aspects of contextuality and the role it plays in logic and
linguistics.

The importance of the notion of context is widely acknowledged, even if
to varying degrees, among pursuers of theories of natural as well as of
formal languages. The very same word "context" often refers to quite
heterogeneous sets of intuitions, which is obviously reflected in the
corresponding formalisms. The aim of the Symposium is to analyse,
compare and discuss a wide range of problems which are (directly or
indirectly) related to the proper treatment of contextuality both in
logic and in linguistics.

We envisage a meeting with invited keynote speakers and a restricted
number of papers from logicians, linguists, philosophers and computer
scientists working on the formalization of contexts and the use of
context in applications. In general, we hope to promote a discussion on
how to recognize, acquire and represent contextual information as well
as on the interplay between particular formalisms and the contextual
information they aim to capture.

We also welcome contributions concerning related areas of the
description of languages. There exist various logics of context and it
is a matter of constant discussion to what extent we need reference to
context in approaches to information content, information structure,
logically relevant sense, intensionality, dynamicity, valid inference,
the proof theoretic handling of free variables, etc. On the linguistics
side, an adequate semantic or syntactic account of a wide range of
empirical phenomena, such as anaphora, tense, aspectuality, topichood,
focushood, contrastivity, etc. heavily depends on the use and inclusion
of different types of contextual information. The study of these
specific domains might help to develop a fuller understanding of the
notion of context.

The programme will also include a special series of short lectures given
by members of the Advisory and Review Board as well as the following
keynote lectures (please note that the titles are preliminary):

Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian
                 Academy of Sciences)
   Topic Selection and Contextuality

Chris Fox (University of Essex) and Shalom Lappin (King's College, London)
   Generating Underspecified Interpretations as Terms of
   the Representation Language

Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam)
   Contexts for Questions


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Tamas Mihalydeak (chair - logic)
Laszlo Hunyadi (chair - linguistics)
Eniko Toth (organizer)
Gyorgy Rakosi (organizer)

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Submissions should consist of:

1. An anonymous abstract of maximum four pages (1500 words).
2. A separate page with the following information: title of the paper,
author's name, address, affiliation, phone and fax number, email,
complete mailing address and a 200-word long summary.

We strongly encourage electronic submissions, which can be in pdf, ps,
rtf or word format.

Abstracts should be sent to:
submit at lola8.unideb.hu

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is: March 15, 2004.

A proceedings volume will be published by the conference date. The
guidelines for the submission of articles will be made available on the
homepage for the prospective authors by the time the notification of
acceptance (May 1, 2004) is due.

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the LoLa8 Advisory and
Review Board, which consists of:

Gabor ALBERTI (University of Pecs), Johan VAN BENTHEM (University of
Amsterdam), Cleo CONDORAVDI (Palo Alto Research Center & Stanford
University) Paul DEKKER (University of Amsterdam), Jan VAN EIJCK
(Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam & Utrecht Institute of
Linguistics OTS), Martin EVERAERT (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
OTS), Chris FOX (University of Essex), Beata GYURIS (Research Institute
for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Laszlo KALMAN
(Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences), Andras KERTESZ (University of Debrecen) Ferenc KIEFER
(Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences), Shalom LAPPIN (King's College, London), Marta MALECZKI
(University of Szeged), Andras MATE (Eotvos Lorand University,
Budapest), Peter MEKIS (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest), Walt Detmar
MEURERS (The Ohio State University), Barbara H. PARTEE (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst MA), Christopher PINON (Research Institute for
Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Peter REBRUS
(Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences), Tanya REINHART (Tel Aviv University & Utrecht Institute of
Linguistics OTS), Henk van RIEMSDIJK (Tilburg University), Robert VAN
ROOIJ (University of Amsterdam), Anna SZABOLCSI (New York University),
Henk VERKUYL (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS).

REGISTRATION

Registration is possible during the pre-registration period (April 1 -
May 30, 2004) and the registration period (June 1 - August 20, 2004).
There are two types of registration within each period: Type1 is only
for PhD students, and Type2 is for anybody else. Each type includes the
following:
- Conference booklet
- Proceedings volume
- Coffee breaks
- Reception
- An excursion to Hortobagy followed by a comprehensive dinner at a
traditional Hungarian farm.

Pre-registration fees (April 1 - May 30, 2004)
Type1: 50 Euros (13.000 HUF)
Type2: 90 Euros (23.500 HUF)
Registration fees (June 1 - August 20, 2004)
Type1: 70 Euros (18.000 HUF)
Type2: 110 Euros (28.500 HUF)

Details of the registration process will be made available on the
conference homepage by the start of the pre-registration period (April
1, 2004).


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 15, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2004
Pre-registration period: April 1 - May 30, 2004
Registration period: June 1- August 20, 2004

INFORMATION

submit at lola8.unideb.hu (submission of abstracts)
lola8 at lola8.unideb.hu (any other correspondence)
homepage: http://lola8.unideb.hu