16.3679, Calls: General Ling/Russia;Computational Ling/Hungary

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-3679. Fri Dec 23 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.3679, Calls: General Ling/Russia;Computational Ling/Hungary

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1)
Date: 20-Dec-2005
From: Sergei Tatevosov < tatevos at philol.msu.ru >
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics

2)
Date: 19-Dec-2005
From: Beáta Gyuris < lola9 at nytud.hu >
Subject: The 9th Symposium on Logic and Language


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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:20:47
From: Sergei Tatevosov < tatevos at philol.msu.ru >
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics


Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics Short Title: WAFL3

Date: 22-May-2006 - 24-May-2006
Location: Moscow, Russia Contact Person: Sergei Tatevosov
Meeting Email: mail at wafl3.org.ru
Web Site: http://wafl3.org.ru

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Altaic

Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2006

Meeting Description:

The Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State 
University is pleased to announce the Third Workshop on Altaic in 
Formal Linguistics (WAFL3) on May 22-24, 2006.

Along with a General Session, there will be a Special Session on 
Comparative Altaic Syntax and talks by invited speakers.

Third Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL3)
May 22-24, 2006

- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 5, 2006 -

The Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State 
University is pleased to announce the Third Workshop on Altaic in 
Formal Linguistics (WAFL3) on May 22-24, 2006. Along with a General 
Session, there will be a Special Session on Comparative Altaic Syntax 
and talks by invited speakers.

General Session Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 
10 minutes discussion) on topics dealing with formal aspects of any 
area of theoretical Altaic linguistics, including syntax, phonology, 
morphology, and semantics.

Special Session: 	Comparative Altaic Syntax 			organized by 			Shigeru 
Miyagawa (MIT) and 			Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)

Invited Speakers:  	David Pesetsky (MIT)
			Bert Vaux (University of Wisconsin)

Abstact Submission
Abstracts should be sent electronically to the conference e-mail 
address (mail at wafl3.org.ru) as attachments in .pdf, .rtf, or .doc 
format. Abstracts should be one-page; one extra page for examples, 
figures, and references is allowed. If you submit a file in .doc or 
.rtf formats, send appropriate fonts as attachments as well.

The following information will also be requested:

1) paper title 2) name(s) of author(s) 3) affiliation(s) of author(s) 
4) email address to which the notification of acceptance should be 
mailed 5) contact phone number for each author 6) physical address for 
each author

This information should be in a separate file or included as part of 
the body of the e-mail message.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 5, 2006. Abstracts will be 
reviewed anonymously. The notification of acceptance will be sent 
around mid-February, 2006.

Contact:  	Sergei Tatevosov 		mail at wafl3.org.ru

Website: 	wafl3.org.ru

Further information about travel, accommodation, and registration will 
be gradually posted at our website.

WAFL3 Organizing Committee
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Moscow State University 1 Uchebnyj Korpus,
Leninskije Gory, 119899 Moscow
Russia



-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:20:52
From: Beáta Gyuris < lola9 at nytud.hu >
Subject: The 9th Symposium on Logic and Language



Full Title: The 9th Symposium on Logic and Language Short Title: LoLa9

Date: 24-Aug-2006 - 26-Aug-2006
Location: Budapest/Beseny?telek, Hungary Contact Person: Beáta Gyuris
Meeting Email: lola9 at nytud.hu
Web Site: http://www.nytud.hu/lola9

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; 
Pragmatics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

The 2006 meeting is the ninth installment of the Symposium series, 
which is designed to provide a forum where logicians and linguists can 
meet to share and discuss ideas and issues about how linguistics and 
logic influence each other, with the aim of promoting a fruitful 
cooperation.

The Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language
Budapest/Beseny?telek, Hungary August 24-26, 2006
http://www.nytud.hu/lola9 e-mail: lola9 at nytud.hu

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of 
Sciences is pleased to announce the Ninth Symposium on Logic and 
Language, to be held on August 24-26, 2006 in Beseny?telek, Hungary. 
(Organized transportation from Budapest will be provided.)

The 2006 meeting is the ninth installment of the Symposium series, 
which is designed to provide a forum where logicians and linguists can 
meet to share and discuss ideas and issues about how linguistics and 
logic influence each other, with the aim of promoting a fruitful 
cooperation. Preceding symposiums took place in Debrecen (1987), 
Hajdúszoboszló (1989), Révfülöp (1990), Budapest (1992), Noszvaj 
(1994), Budapest (1998), Pécs (2002), and Debrecen (2004).

Symposium theme: information structure

The organisers invite papers proposing semantic/pragmatic analyses of 
empirical data illustrating the structuring of information in natural 
language, both at the sentence and the discourse level. The range of 
possible topics include (but is not limited to) the interpretation of 
topicalisation and focusing, the thetic/categorical distinction, the 
study of presuppositions, and the functions of discourse particles and 
discourse connectives. Invited speakers:
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London)
Marcus Kracht  (UCLA)
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University/ZAS, Berlin)
Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

The individual presentations are planned to last for 40 minutes (30 
minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for discussion).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 20, 2006
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2006

Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format (a maximum of 
two abstracts per person, one single-authored and one co-authored). The 
abstracts should be a maximum of four pages, including examples and 
references. Submissions should be sent to: lola9 at nytud.hu.

A proceedings will be published by the conference date. The guidelines 
for the submission of 8-page articles will be made available on the 
homepage for the prospective authors by the time of the notification of 
acceptance.

Deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings: July 9, 2006

Venue, transportation: The symposium, following the tradition of the 
first meetings in the 1980s, will take place in the Hungarian 
countryside, in a hotel with conference facilites, to provide the 
participants the possibility for discussion in a more informal setting. 
The venue of the 2006 symposium is Hotel Fauna, situated near 
Beseny?telek, 120 km east of Budapest (www.hotelfauna.hu). Hotel Fauna 
is at the edge of the Lake Tisza region, the second biggest lake of 
Hungary, offering plenty of opportunities for eco-tourism (with a bird 
nature reserve) and for a more traditional vacation 
(www.tisza-to-info.hu).

There will be a bus on the evening of August 23 taking participants 
from Budapest to the conference location. Public transportation is also 
available for travelling to and from Budapest, with a major railway 
station with direct (including Intercity) trains to and from Budapest 
10 km from the conference site.

Registration: The registration fee will include transportation to the 
conference site, accommodation from the evening of August 23 through 
the morning of August 26, meals (with a vegetarian menu available), 
coffee breaks, the proceedings, an excursion into the nature reserve 
area, and wine tasting, and is expected to be between 250 and 300 EUR.

Registration deadline: June 1, 2006

Organizing committee:
Kinga Gárdai
Beáta Gyuris László Kálmán
Chris Piñón
Károly Varasdi

Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: March 20, 2006
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2006
Registration deadline: June 1, 2006 Deadline for submission of papers 
for the proceedings: July 9, 2006
LoLa9: August 24-26, 2006




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