37.1023, Confs: Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6 (Portugal)

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Subject: 37.1023, Confs: Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6 (Portugal)

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Date: 11-Mar-2026
From: Maria del Mar Bassa Vanrell [mbassa at edu.ulisboa.pt]
Subject: Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6


Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6
Short Title: OASIS 6
Theme: Satellite Session: Creoles as Windows on Language and Cognition

Date: 13-Oct-2026 - 16-Oct-2026
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact Email: oasis6lisboa at letras.ulisboa.pt
Meeting URL: https://oasis.cnrs.fr/meetings/oasis-6

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language;
Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Submission Deadline: 15-May-2026

OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6)
will take place at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de
Lisboa, 13-16 October, 2026.
The OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across
different disciplines that interface with semantics, using ontological
questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the
background are these:
1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think
about the world?
2. How do these building blocks get combined?
3. And how do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers
to the first two questions?
For more information, see the OASIS credo.
We welcome submissions from semantics and semantics-adjacent domains,
including philosophy and the cognitive sciences. We will host sessions
bringing together linguists and philosophers to discuss foundational
questions in linguistics and their relation to broader philosophical
issues. The sessions will introduce some of the central assumptions
and frameworks of contemporary linguistic theory and provide informal
opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange. Philosophers and others
interested in language, mind, or cognition are particularly encouraged
to attend.
Invited Speakers:
 - Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam
 - Ofra Magidor, University of Oxford
 - Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London
Satellite Session: Creoles as Windows on Language and Cognition
This special session will focus on Creoles as full-fledged natural
languages that emerged in certain socio-historical environments shaped
by European colonial expansion. For any given theory of Creole
formation, those contexts involve language contact and innovation
through complex processes of language acquisition, therefore providing
a particular starting point for research on how conceptual categories
are mapped into diverse grammatical systems.
Abstract Submission:
Abstracts are due on May 15, 2026. Submission will be via the
conference Open Review page.
Authors should be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly
created profiles in the Call for Papers:
New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a
moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated
automatically.
If you are submitting for the satellite workshop, please indicate this
by including “[for satellite workshop]” under the title of your
abstract.
Abstracts must be anonymous, in pdf format, 2 A4 pages, in a font size
no less than 12pt. You may submit at most two abstracts but can be
single author on only one.
Linguists and any others submitting very technical research: It is
absolutely necessary that you do what you can to make your abstract
accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. This doesn't mean
eschewing all formalism, but do pitch your abstract so that a
non-technical reader can get something interesting out of it.
Important Dates:
 - Submission deadline: May 15 2026
 - Notification: June 30 2026
Contact: oasis6lisboa at letras.ulisboa.pt
Organizing Committee:
Fernanda Pratas (Local Chair) - Universidade de Lisboa
Mariana Almeida - Universidade de Lisboa
Maria del Mar Bassa Vanrell - Universidade de Lisboa
Sonia Cyrino - Universidade de Lisboa
Clara Pinto - Universidade de Lisboa
Bridget Copley (Oasis) - SFL (CNRS/Paris 8)



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