12.2364, Confs: Co-ordination at University of Salford

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Subject: 12.2364, Confs: Co-ordination at University of Salford

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Date:  Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:45:20 +0100
From:  D.Blakemore at salford.ac.uk
Subject:  conference announcement

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Date:  Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:45:20 +0100
From:  D.Blakemore at salford.ac.uk
Subject:  conference announcement


             THE 4TH NORTH WEST CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS
                      INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

                       CALL FOR REGISTRATION


           CO-ORDINATION: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS

             University of Salford, Greater Manchester
                       16 - 18 November 2001

Organized by Diane Blakemore (University of Salford) & Robyn Carston
(University College London)

With support from the British Academy and the Linguistics Association
of Great Britain.
								
			

KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS:

            Nicholas Asher (University of Austin Texas)
             Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
            Rob Stainton (Carleton University , Ontario)
	      Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)

Co-ordination has been studied as a syntactic phenomenon in a variety
of frameworks - e.g. HPSG, Dynamic Syntax, Word Grammar, Categorial
Grammar, Minimalism. Co-ordinated structures have also been studied
from the point of view of their interpretation, in, for example, truth
conditional semantics, discourse representation theory and Gricean
pragmatics. However, recently research on co-ordination has turned to
questions about the relationship between their syntactic representation
and their interpretation. This can be seen as part of a more general
concern with one of the most fundamental questions in Linguistics,
namely, what is the nature of the grammar-pragmatics interface?  Co-
ordination poses a particular problem for an understanding of the
grammar-pragmatics interface because it seems that in some cases there
is a discrepancy between the syntactic representation and the
communicated propositional content. However, the theoretical conflicts
between the various syntactic analyses that have been proposed for co-
ordinated structures and the apparent lack of agreement about which
aspects of their interpretation are due to their semantic properties create
a serious obstacle to progress in understanding the relationship between
form and interpretation. This conference aims to bring together
researchers from a variety of approaches in syntax, semantics and
pragmatics in order to promote the understanding of these issues.


            FURTHER INFORMATION & REGISTRATION FORM ARE
                            AVAILABLE ON

           http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/coordination/home.htm

Or contact Mrs W. Dodgson   <w.a.dodgson at salford.ac.uk>

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