ESSLLI 2008 Workshop: Free choiceness: facts, models and problems - last call

[fc-esslli08 at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR]

Workshop
FREE CHOICENESS: FACTS, MODELS AND PROBLEMS
http://elico.linguist.jussieu.fr/fc-esslli08.html

organised as part of ESSLLI 2008
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information
http://www.illc.uva.nl/ESSLLI2008/
11-15 August, 2008 in Hamburg D

Organisers:
Jacques Jayez and Lucia M. Tovena


                    Last call for papers

Event Description
So called Free Choice Items (words like 'any' in English) are represented in the
lexicon of most natural languages. Roughly speaking, they express equivalence
between the members of a set from different points of view (practical,
inferential, affective). In addition to raising difficult descriptive problems
for linguists, they prove challenging for formal and cognitive theories that
explore the relations between linguistic meaning, reasoning abilities and
emotions.
The general goal of the workshop is to offer an up to date guided tour of this
complex landscape and to bring out the major threads of the debate.

Topics:
The theme of the workshop brings up questions like the following:
    * Free Choiceness and the treatment of alternatives
    * Subtrigging
    * Attitudinal values: widening, indifference, derogatory uses, etc. Are they
peripheral or core values?
    * (In)definiteness and quantification: the existential vs. universal debate
    * Free Choice items in diachrony
    * Free relatives
    * The relation of Free Choiceness to polarity sensitivity

Invited Speakers:
        Veneeta Dayal Rutgers University USA
      Rob van Rooy ILLC Amsterdam Holland

Important Dates:
      Submissions: March 8, 2008
      Notification: April 21, 2008
      Preliminary programme: May 5, 2008
      ESSLLI early registration: May 2008
      Final papers for proceedings: May 17, 2008
      Final programme: June 23, 2008

      Workshop dates: 11-15 August 2008

Scientific Committee:
      Jacques Jayez ENS Lyon France
      Lucia Tovena Université Paris 7 France
      Veneeta Dayal Rutgers University USA
      Cleo Condoravdi Xerox USA
      Francis Corblin Université Paris 4 France
      Rob van Rooy ILLC Amsterdam Holland

Submission Details & Proceedings
Authors are invited to submit an *anonymous* abstract describing completed
research or work in progress contributing to the above mentioned issues and
topics closely related to these. Submissions should not exceed 2 pages (12pt
font, A4, 2cm margins on all four sides). Abstracts should be formatted in PDF.
Please send your submission electronically to the following email address:

fc-esslli08 at linguist.jussieu.fr

The body of your mail should include the name of the author(s) and their
affilitation(s), their adresses and the title of the paper.
The deadline for submissions is March 8, 2008.
The submissions will be reviewed by the scientific committee and possibly
additional reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings published by ESSLLI. The format for the final versions will be
extended abstracts of maximally 6 pages.

Event format:
The event is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will
consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the
second 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.

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.
There will be no reimbursement for travel costs and accommodation.
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