6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication:
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models
November 19-21, 2010
Riga, Latvia
The aim of the conference “Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models” is to stimulate exchange among linguists and philosophers about issues in formal semantics and pragmatics and how they bear on foundational issues in linguistic theory, the philosophy of language and cognition.
Invited symposium organizers:
- Barbara H. Partee (Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
- Michael Glanzberg (Philosophy, University of California at Davis, USA)
Invited speakers:
- Paul Dekker (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, NL)
- Kai von Fintel (Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Nirit Kadmon (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, IS)
- Manfred Krifka (Linguistics, Humboldt University, D)
- Fred Landman (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, IS)
- Jeff Pelletier (Philosophy and Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, CAN)
- Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
- Christopher Potts (Linguistics, Stanford University, USA)
- Craige Roberts (Linguistics and Philosophy, Ohio State University, USA)
- Maribel Romero (Linguistics, University of Konstanz, D)
- Susan Rothstein (Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, IS)
- Philippe Schlenker
(Cognitive Studies, Institute Jean-Nicod, F/
Linguistics, New York University, USA) - Martin Stokhof (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, NL)
- Anna Szabolcsi (New York University, USA)
- Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Philosophy, Yale University, USA)
- Dag Westerståhl (Philosophy, University of Göteborg, SE)
- Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Institute for Cognitive Linguistics, University of Frankfurt, D)
Call for papers:
A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication.
Time allowed for contributed presentations is 40 minutes including discussion. Submitted papers should have a maximum of 3000 words and should be accompanied by a 200 word abstract.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC THEORY
Model-theoretic semantics; The syntax-semantics-pragmatics interfaces; The semantics and pragmatics of subsentential utterances; The semantics and pragmatics of discourse; Theories of quotation; Reference and quantification; Other topics central to semantics and pragmatics and the interfaces, such as focus; questions and other non-declaratives; propositional attitudes; events and the semantics of verbs; deixis and anaphora; generics; connectivity effects.
FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
Compositionality; Contextualism and the division of labor between semantics and pragmatics; Representational and non-representational techniques in semantic theory; Mental models; The psychological reality of semantics; How work in linguistics bears on work in philosophy of language and vice versa.
Program Committee:
- Barbara H. Partee (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
- Michael Glanzberg (University of California at Davis, USA)
- Jurgis Skilters (University of Latvia, LV)
- Robert J. Stainton (University of Western Ontario, CAN)
