36.3453, Calls: 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics (Poland)

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Subject: 36.3453, Calls: 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics (Poland)

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Date: 10-Nov-2025
From: Rhiana Horovská [rhee at mail.muni.cz]
Subject: 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics


Full Title: 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics
Theme: Event Cognition

Date: 20-Feb-2026 - 23-Feb-2026
Location: Szklarska Poręba, Poland
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/26th-szklarska-poreba-workshop

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Linguistic Theories;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2025

Call for Papers:
The 26th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, held on the top of
the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland
and the Czech Republic, invites linguists, logicians, philosophers,
psychologists, and researchers from related fields to submit papers
for presentation on February 20–23, 2026. This year’s special theme is
Event Cognition.
Confirmed invited speakers include:
David Beaver (The University of Texas at Austin)
Oliver Bott (Bielefeld University)
Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University)
Submissions on topics related to the special theme or any of the
traditional themes of the Szklarska Poręba Workshop are welcome.
Experimental and theoretical approaches are both encouraged. We
especially welcome innovative ideas, even if they are still in need of
further refinement, and submissions from students with no prior
experience presenting at international workshops.
Traditional themes of the Szklarska Poręba Workshop include:
 - Coordination on meaning
 - Inference in natural language
 - Experimental semantics and pragmatics
 - Bayesian models of interpretation
 - Quantum cognition and language
 - Grammaticalization and other approaches to diachrony
 - Language typology and semantics/pragmatics
 - Game-theoretical pragmatics
 - Formal models of language acquisition
 - Explicature and implicature
 - The architecture of the syntax/semantics interface
 - Licensing of polarity elements, quantification, etc.
 - The evolution of communication and language
 - Optimality theory
Submission Instructions:
Authors are invited to submit blind abstracts (in PDF format) to
szklarskaworkshop26 at gmail.com. Abstracts should be no longer than one
A4 page, including references, with 2.5cm margins and 11pt font. If
this is your first presentation outside of your home institution,
please indicate this in your cover email. The deadline for the
abstract submission is: 15th December 2025. Acceptance decisions will
be communicated by mid-January 2026.
There will be a discussion on the roots of pragmasemantics. If you
want to help with a position statement, contact henk.zeevat at uva.nl.
For more information, please visit the workshop’s official website:
https://sites.google.com/view/26th-szklarska-poreba-workshop



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