16.109, Calls: Historical Ling/USA; Semantics/Syntax/UK

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Subject: 16.109, Calls: Historical Ling/USA; Semantics/Syntax/UK

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1)
Date: 14-Jan-2005
From: Alex Bergs < bergs at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de >
Subject: Constructions and Language Change 

2)
Date: 13-Jan-2005
From: Manfred Sailer < manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de >
Subject: Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives to Strict Compositionality 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:54:40
From: Alex Bergs < bergs at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de >
Subject: Constructions and Language Change 

Full Title: Constructions and Language Change 
Short Title: CALC 

Date: 31-Jul-2005 - 01-Aug-2005
Location: Madison, WI, United States of America 
Contact Person: Alex Bergs
Meeting Email: bergs at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2005 

Meeting Description:

ICHL Workshop: Constructions and Language Change
Conveners: Gabriele Diewald, Universität Hannover - Alexander Bergs,
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic
change is highly context-dependent. Especially in its initial stages,
linguistic change is tied not only to particular text types or registers,
but also to specific morphosyntactic and semantic environments, i.e. to
specific recurring patterns of co-present linguistic features, that is to
say 'constructions'. 

This workshop investigates and highlights the role of 'constructions' in
linguistic change. In doing so, the term 'constructions' is deliberately
understood to have a broad extension, i.e. to include, but not be limited
to Construction Grammar proper. Thus, any constructional approach to
language and language change is welcome. 

INTRODUCTION
Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic
change is highly context-dependent. Especially in its initial stages,
linguistic change is tied not only to particular text types or registers,
but also to specific morphosyntactic and semantic environments, i.e. to
specific recurring patterns of co-present linguistic features, that is to
say ''constructions''. 

This workshop investigates and highlights the role of ''constructions'' in
linguistic change. In doing so, the term ''constructions'' is deliberately
understood to have a broad extension, i.e. to include, but not be limited
to Construction Grammar proper. Thus, any constructional approach to
language and language change is welcome.

Suggestions for topics to be addressed in this workshop include:
- The role of constructions as source(s) of linguistic change
- The role of constructions as product(s) of linguistic change
- Mechanisms of change within constructions
- Constructions and grammaticalization
- Constructions, frequency, and linguistic change
- Cross-linguistic constructional phenomena in linguistic change
- The definition and delimitation of the terms ''construction'',
''context'', etc.

CALL FOR PAPERS
We encourage abstract submission on any of the topics mentioned above.
Papers on other related issues are also welcome. Papers, no matter whether
theory or data-driven, need not take a construction grammar point of view,
but should explicitly employ a constructional approach to language. 
Presentations will have the usual 20 min + 10 min discussion format. We
plan to publish selected proceedings with an international publishing house.

Abstracts of no more than 350 words should be sent as MS WORD compatible
files to the following address: bergs at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
Deadline is March 1, 2005. Notification of acceptance will be sent out
April 1, 2005. Needless to say, participants in the workshop need to
register for the main conference.

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:54:44
From: Manfred Sailer < manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de >
Subject: Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives to Strict Compositionality 

Full Title: Workshop on Empirical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives to Strict
Compositionality 

Date: 08-Aug-2005 - 12-Aug-2005
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Frank Richter
Meeting Email: fr at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 09-Mar-2005 

Meeting Description:

Compositionality has been a key methodological theme in natural language
semantics. Recently, a number of innovative systems for combinatorial semantics
have been proposed which seem not to obey compositionality at first sight. Such
systems are based on unification, underspecification, linear logic or categorial
grammar, to name the most prominent research areas. The motivation behind these
systems is often computational, but the mechanisms they employ also provide new
insights and analytical alternatives for outstanding problems in the
combinatorial semantics of natural languages. These include scope ambiguities,
multiple exponents of semantic operators, cohesion, ellipsis, coordination, and
modifier attachment ambiguities. 

Second Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on
Empirical Challenges and Analytic Alternatives to Strict Compositionality

URL: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/

August 8-12, 2005

Organized as part of
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI 2005 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/
8-19 August, 2005 in Edinburgh

Workshop Purpose:

The workshop aims to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers
whose interests lie in empirical issues or logic. It will give them the
opportunity to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers
who work in the broad subject areasrepresented at ESSLLI. We wish to invite
papers discussing linguistic data which pose a challenge to compositionality as
well as papers presenting new mechanisms for defining a compositional semantics
which can address well-known challenges in innovative ways.

Workshop Topics:

Topics for submission may include but are not limited to:

    * presentations of certain empirical phenomena which seem to challenge 
      strict compositionality. Empirical papers should point out precisely 
      why the discussed phenomenon poses analytical problems.
    * presentations of semantic formalisms. This type of presentation should 
      stress the potential usefulness of the proposal for the analysis of 
      empirical challenges.
    * papers which combine the empirical and formal aspects directly.

Submission Details:

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract for a 30-minute presentation
(followed by 15 minutes of discussion).

Submissions should

    * not exceed 8 (eight) pages, including all figures and references.
    * be in pdf (preferred), ps or ASCII.
    * be sent electronically to manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de 
      by March 9, 2005 (see the deadlines listed below).
    * be anonymous and, therefore, accompanied by a separate
      information sheet containing: author name(s), affiliation(s),
      e-mail and postal address(es), and the title of the paper.

The submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the workshop's programme
committee and additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the
workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI. The final versions will be 15 pages,
in pdf format. Details will be specified on the workshop homepage
(http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/).

Workshop Format:

The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will
consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five sonsecutive days in the first
week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and discussion per
session. On the first day the workshop organizers will give an introduction to
the topic.

Invited Speakers:

tba

Workshop Programme Committee:

    * Sigrid Beck (Potsdam)
    * Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
    * Markus Egg (Saarbruecken)
    * Howard Gregory (Goettingen)
    * Fritz Hamm (Tuebingen)
    * James Higginbotham (Los Angeles)
    * Wilfrid Hodges (London)
    * Pauline Jacobson (Providence)
    * Theo Janssen (Amsterdam)
    * Graham Katz (Osnabrueck)
    * Albert Ortmann (Duesseldorf)
    * Gerald Penn (Toronto)
    * Adam Przepiorkowski (Warsaw)
    * Frank Richter (Tuebingen, co-chair)
    * Manfred Sailer (Goettingen, co-chair)
    * Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)
    * Henriette de Swart (Utrecht)
    * Zoltan Szabo (Ithaca)
    * Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt)

Important Dates:

Submission: March 9, 2005
Notification: April 18, 2005
Preliminary programme: April 23, 2005
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2005
Final papers for proceedings: May 18, 2005
Final programme: June 22, 2005
Workshop dates: August 8-12, 2005

Local Arrangements:

All workshop participants including the presenters will be required to register
for ESSLLI. The registration fee for authors presenting a paper will correspond
to the early student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, a number of
additional fee waiver grants will be made available by the Organization
Committee on a competitive basis and workshop participants are eligible to apply
for those.

There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation. Workshop
speakers who have difficulty in finding funding should contact the local
organizing committee to ask for the possibilities for a grant.

Further information:

About the workshop: http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~fr/esslli/05/
About ESSLLI: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/esslli05/

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