[LFG] 2nd CFP: CSSP 2015 The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris

[Yonatan Ginzburg]

  CSSP 2015
The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris
October 8-10, 2015

Université Paris Diderot, Amphi Buffon, bâtiment Buffon
15, rue Hélène Brion, 75013 Paris

Thematic Session
Global or genre/domain-dependent grammar?

Invited speakers:
Vera Demberg (Saarbrücken)
Chris Potts (Stanford)
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts)
Ira Noveck (Lyon)

Submission deadline: 10 May 2015

The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2015) will 
take place on October 8-10th, 2015 at Université Paris 7 – Paris 
Diderot. The Conference welcomes papers combining empirical inquiry 
and formal explicitness. CSSP aims at favouring comparisons between 
different theoretical frameworks. CSSP conferences combine a general 
session and a thematic session.

General session: In light of the fact that work in semantics often 
addresses pragmatic issues and with the increasing prominence of both 
experimental and computational approaches CSSP now welcomes papers 
employing theoretical/experimental/computational methods on:

     syntax,
     semantics,
     pragmatics
     the syntax-semantics interface
     the semantics-pragmatics interface
     language acquisition: syntax-semantics-pragmatics

The thematic session will focus on the issue of: Global or 
genre/domain-dependent grammar? In both computational and 
sociolinguistic work the need to accommodate domain or genre 
dependence has long been recognised. More recently, there have been 
proposals among semanticists and philosophers of language that 
grammars or languages can be created on the fly and that, 
consequently, there is no single grammar/language. Among syntacticians 
there is increasing awareness of the importance of genre/domain on the 
availability and meaning of grammatical and lexical constructions. We 
welcome theoretical and empirical contributions addressing the issue 
of how to accommodate domain or genre dependence in grammatical 
frameworks: the impact this has for grammar architectures and for 
context/grammar interfaces, does it necessitate the recognition of 
core/periphery within a single grammar?

Submission: We invite submissions for 40 minute presentations 
(including 10 minutes for discussion). CSSP is changing its submission 
procedures. Submissions are expected to describe substantial, 
original, completed and unpublished work, hence submissions should be 
up to 5 pages plus an extra page for references (anonymous pdf). 
Precise specifications and templates will be available very shortly on 
the CSSP website, http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2015/index_en.html