CALL FOR PAPERS: FORMAL APPROACHES TO SIGN LANGUAGES

[Carlo Cecchetto]

CALL FOR PAPERS

FORMAL APPROACHES TO SIGN LANGUAGES
  <http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/FASLcall.htm>http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/FASLcall.htm

27-31 July, 2009

This workshop is organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, 
Language and Information ESSLLI 2009 
<http://esslli2009.labri.fr/>http://esslli2009.labri.fr to be held in 
Bordeaux (20-31 July, 2009).

Workshop Organizers:
Carlo Cecchetto <mailto:carlo.cecchetto at unimib.it>carlo.cecchetto at unimib.it
Carlo Geraci <mailto:carlo.geraci at unimib.it>carlo.geraci at unimib.it
Alessandro Zucchi <mailto:alessandro.zucchi at unimi.it>alessandro.zucchi at unimi.it

Workshop Purpose:
The recognition that sign languages are natural languages in their own 
right, and not collections of gestures or impoverished codes lacking an 
autonomous grammar, begins with Stokoe (1960). With Stokoe's work, the 
methods linguists use to describe and investigate spoken languages are 
applied to sign languages as well. In recent years, linguistic work on sign 
languages has also developed in formal frameworks, in the areas of 
phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. One goal of the workshop is 
to bring together researchers from different areas of formal linguistics 
who are investigating sign languages. The workshop aims to provide a forum 
for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work 
with colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas 
represented at ESSLLI.

Workshop Topics:
The grammars of sign languages are as highly complex as the grammars of 
spoken languages and share with them many universal features, despite the 
difference in modality between spoken languages (which use the auditory 
channel) and sign languages (which use the visual channel). Yet, sign 
languages also differ from spoken languages in radical ways: morphological 
information in sign languages is often conveyed simultaneously by different 
articulators rather than linearly; moreover, certain aspects of their 
phonological, syntactic and semantic structures are not commonly found in 
spoken languages. These differences raise an interesting challenge for 
existing formal linguistic frameworks, which are designed to account for 
the grammars of spoken languages. By bringing together formal linguists 
working on sign languages, the workshop should contribute to meet this 
challenge.

Submission details:
Authors are invited to submit an anonymous abstract (personal information 
should appear in the text of the e-mail accompanying the abstract). 
Submissions should not exceed 500 words. The following formats are 
accepted: PDF, Word, RTF. Please send your submission electronically to 
carlo.cecchetto at unimib.it by the deadline listed below. The submissions 
will be reviewed by the workshop's programme committee and additional 
reviewers. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings 
published by ESSLLI.

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 consecutive days in 
the second week of ESSLLI. There will be approximately 10 slots for 
selected papers (20 minutes for talk + 10 for discussion) and 3 invited talks.

Invited speakers:
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)
Josep Quer (University of Amsterdam)


Important Dates:

Submissions: March 31, 2009
Notification: April 15, 2009
Preliminary programme: April 24, 2009
ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2009
Final papers for proceedings: May 15, 2009
Final programme: June 15, 2009
Workshop dates: 27-31 July, 2009

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 
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 this 
workshop: 
<http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/FASLcall.htm>http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/~zucchi/FASLcall.htm
About ESSLLI: <http://esslli2009.labri.fr/>http://esslli2009.labri.fr
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