Workshop on Definiteness and Referentiality

[Yehuda N. Falk]

*SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS*

*DEFINITENESS AND REFERENTIALITY:*

*THEORY AND DESCRIPTION  WORKSHOP*

Sept. 26-28, 2007**

University of Adelaide    Adelaide, Australia

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A one day workshop on Definiteness and Referentiality will be held in 
conjunction with ALS 2007 at the University of Adelaide. We welcome 
papers on Australian, Austronesian, Asian and other natural languages, 
and in all areas of linguistics including sociolinguistics, language 
variation and change, first/second language acquisition, conversational 
analysis, and cognitive (including psycho-/neurolinguistic) processing 
of definiteness. The following topics are of particular interest:

            --data based studies of definiteness properties in 
particular languages

--theoretical aspects of definiteness and/or specificity

--the article systems of a language group(s)

--the interaction of definiteness/specificity with the grammar of a 
language

--the behavior of subsystems within languages, e.g. polarity references 
and  number and quantification of nouns

--the acquisition and development of definiteness and/or referentiality 
in child and second languages

--language change in progress with respect to a property or subsystem of 
a language.

               

Proposals for both a General Session and a Poster Session should include 
the author's name and affiliation, contact details (including e-mail and 
postal addresses), title of the paper, keywords, and a one page abstract 
of no more than 500 words, excluding examples and references.  Key 
references may include, but not limited to, the work of  Irene Heim, M. 
Enç, Kamp & Reyle (DRT), B. Partee, Donka Farkas, T.Givon, Christopher 
Lyons, J. Hawkins, and M. Haspelmath.  In your submission, please 
indicate your preference, and, if your choice is a General Session, 
please state if you would be willing to do a poster. 

 

Each abstract will be blind reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:

   --Topic appropriate to the workshop theme

   --Paper contributing new knowledge on the topic

   --Argument supported by data from natural language

   --Clear statement of results

 

Abstracts should be sent electronically in the body of the e-mail 
message and also as an attachment in PDF or rtf format to 
Korpi.DefWorkshop at anu.edu.au <mailto:Korpi.DefWorkshop at anu.edu.au>.  In 
the e-mail subject line, please write 'NAME ALSDEFworkshop' where NAME 
is your surname. 

DEADLINE for abstracts is *March 16^th * with notification of acceptance 
by April 30.

 

The format of the sessions will be 20 minutes for each paper, followed 
by 10 minutes for discussion.  Posters will be displayed for one whole 
day, with a time slot for discussing them. 

 

Selected papers from the workshop will be peer reviewed and published in 
a special volume devoted to the workshop theme.

 
Workshop organizers:

    Brett Baker                       (University of New England)
    Marie Fellbaum Korpi     (The Australian National University)
    Harumi Minagawa         (The University of Auckland)
    Lesley Stirling                (The University of Melbourne) 

*http://defworkshop.als.asn.au*


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