Corpora: Postgraduate Conference on Semantics

From: Malvina Nissim (malvina@grendel.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 15:51:32 MET DST

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                           *** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

              -- First Pavia Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics --

                    Issues in Inter- and Intraclausal Semantics

    GOAL AND TOPICS

    We are pleased to announce the First Pavia Postgraduate Conference in
    Linguistics to be held in Pavia, Italy, from November 24-25, 2000.

    The conference aims to bring together young researchers from different
    theoretical backgrounds but with a common interest in semantics.

    We encourage submissions related but not limited to the following topics:

    - Lexical and Constructional Semantics
    - Event Structure
    - Tense, Aspect, and Modality
    - Information Structure
    - Anaphoric Strategies
    - Cohesion

    PRESENTATIONS

    Presentations will be 20 minutes long plus 10 minutes discussion. The
    conference language is English.
    Selected papers will be published in the form of proceedings.

    ABSTRACTS

    Abstracts must be no longer than 2 A4 pages (figures and references
    included) with margins of at least 2.5cm on all sides. Type must be no
    smaller than 12 points. We stronly encourage electronic submission (.rtf,
    .ps, .pdf): send abstract to one of the organizers (e-mail addresses
    below). If sent by surface mail (see address below), please include
    disk. Include affiliation and contact address on abstract.
    Deadline for abstracts submission: September 25, 2000.
    Notification of acceptance: October 16, 2000.

    INVITED SPEAKERS

    - Klaus von Heusinger (Universitaet Konstanz, Germany)
    - Arie Verhagen (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)

    REGISTRATION

    The registration fee is 25000 lire (about 8, $13, 25DM) and includes
    conference materials and refreshments.

    ACCOMMODATION

    Details about accommodation will be given in our second circular (October
    17, 2000).

    ORGANIZERS

    Cristiano Broccias (cribroc@tin.it), University of Pavia
    Malvina Nissim (malvina@grendel.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de), University of
    Pavia
    Andrea Sanso' (sanso@ling.unipi.it), University of Pavia

    ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE

    First Pavia Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
    Dipartimento di Linguistica
    Universita' di Pavia
    Corso Strada Nuova, 65
    27100 Pavia
    Italy

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Abstracts submission: September 25, 2000.
    Acceptance notification: October 16, 2000.
    Second circular (programme and accommodation): October 17, 2000.
    Conference: November 24-25, 2000.
    Written papers submission: February 1, 2001.



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