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The Vilem Mathesius Centre for
Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics
Presents the
Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 13
November 9--20, 1998
Prague, Czech Republic
SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The thirteenth cycle of the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series, organized by
the Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and
Linguistics (Charles University), will be held in Prague, Czech Republic,
from November 9 until 20, 1998. The scientific program will consist of
the following invited courses (for preliminary time-schedule see below):
* Emmon Bach (Canada):"Problems of Universal and Parochial Grammar"
* Joan Bresnan (USA):"Optimal Syntax"
* Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy):"Corpus Based Lexicon Building"
* Bernard Comrie (Germany):
"(1) Advances in our understanding of relative clauses.
(2) Form and function in reference-tracking systems.
(3) Agreement in Tsez (NE Caucasian): a typological assessment."
* Edward L. Keenan (USA): "Language Invariants \& the Role of Morphology
in Grammar"
* Christian Lehmann (Germany): "Typology of Possession"
* Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Germany): "Words and Word Paradigms"
* Mitch Marcus (USA): <tba>
* Karen Sparck-Jones (England):"Information Retrieval and Language Processing"
* Hans Uszkoreit (Germany):"Modelling of Linguistic Performance"
* Bonnie Webber (USA):
"(1) Approaching Discourse through Lexicalized Grammar.
(2) Natural Language Generation in Health Care."
We are still waiting for confirmation from M.A.K. Halliday.
Among the Czech lecturers invited to VMC 13 are Frantisek Cermak, Miroslav
Cervenka, Jan Firbas, Jan Hajic, Eva Hajicova, Jarmila Panevova,
Jaroslav Peregrin, and Petr Sgall.
Tentative time-schedule (may be subject to change):
9.30 - 11.00 11.30 - 13.00 14.30 - 16.00 16.30 - 18.00
9.11. Bresnan Keenan Calzolari Webber
10.11. Bresnan Keenan Lieb Webber
11.11. Bresnan Keenan Calzolari Lieb
12.11. x x Calzolari Webber
13.11. x x x x
16.11. Marcus Lehmann Comrie Sparck-Jones
17.11. Marcus Uszkoreit Comrie Sparck-Jones
18.11. Bach Uszkoreit Lehmann Sparck-Jones
19.11. Bach Marcus Lehmann Comrie
20.11. Bach Uszkoreit x x
PARTICIPATION
(Deadline: SEPTEMBER 15, 1998)
The participation fee for VMC 13 is USD 350, which includes tuition
fee, accommodation, and lunches. In order to ensure accommodation,
(paying) participants should register before *SEPTEMBER 15, 1998*.
There is financial support available for students from Germany, via the
Goethe Institut and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). For more
information, please visit our website via http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz.
Please contact Mrs. Brdickova or Prof. Hajicova at the following address
for registration or further information.
Mrs. Libuse Brdickova
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
UFAL MFF UK
Malostranske nam. 25
CZ-11800 Praha 1
Czech Republic
{hajicova,brdickov}@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
(phone) ++420-2-2191-4278
(fax) ++420-2-2191-4309
Check our website at http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/vmc/.
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Geert-Jan M. Kruijff Institute of Formal & Applied Linguistics/Linguistic Data Laboratory Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles UniversityMalostranske nam. 25, CZ-118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Phone: ++420-2-2191-4255 Fax: ++420-2-2191-4309 Email: gj@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz, gj@acm.org WWW: http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/