32.1084, Confs: Semantics/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1084. Thu Mar 25 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1084, Confs: Semantics/Online

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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:31:13
From: Charles Yang [charles.yang at ling.upenn.edu]
Subject: The Past, Present and Future of Formal Semantics: The Franklin Medal Symposium in Honor of Barbara Partee

 
The Past, Present and Future of Formal Semantics: The Franklin Medal Symposium in Honor of Barbara Partee 

Date: 19-Apr-2021 - 19-Apr-2021 
Location: The University of Pennsylvania (Zoom), USA 
Contact: Charles Yang 
Contact Email: charles.yang at ling.upenn.edu 
Meeting URL: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/langscience/partee/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

This online symposium celebrates Barbara Partee, the 2021 laureate of the
Benjamin Franklin Medal in computer and cognitive science, for her
foundational contributions that synthesize insights from linguistics,
philosophy, logic, and psychology to understand how words and sentences
combine to express meaning in human language.  

The invited speakers are, in order of appearance, Barbara Partee, Gennaro
Chierchia, Pauline Jacobson, Florian Schwarz, Seth Cable, and Christopher
Potts. 

The symposium is sponsored by the Franklin Institute and the University
Pennsylvania (Department of Linguistics, Department of Computer and
Information Science, The Initiative in Integrated Language Science and
Technology, and the MindCORE).
 

Program Information: 

Registration is not required. Please see our web page for the full program and
Zoom link: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/langscience/partee/





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