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SUMMARY:Investigating Semantics: Empirical and Philosophical Approaches
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LOCATION:Bochum\, Germany
DESCRIPTION:<p>ORGANIZATION</p>\n<p>Erica Cosentino\, Dirk Kindermann\, Max K&ouml\;lbel\, Maria Spychalska\, Markus&nbsp\;Werning.</p>\n<p>Natural language semantics is today a wide-ranging and methodologically&nbsp\;diverse discipline. One can distinguish broadly between those who use&nbsp\;experimental methods from those who don't. Mostly\, semanticists in&nbsp\;psychology or neuro-science work experimentally\, while philosophers\,&nbsp\;logicians and linguists work non-experimentally. However\, the variety of&nbsp\;approaches and methods among both groups is huge. Even within the camp of&nbsp\;theoretical semantics there are numerous communities: formal semantics\,&nbsp\;possible world semantics\, discourse representation theory\, etc. The same&nbsp\;heterogeneity is present in the camp of empirical researchers: psycho- and&nbsp\;neuro-linguistics\, corpus linguistics\, etc. The aim of the workshop is to&nbsp\;bring together these different branches which are often working on very&nbsp\;related topics. The workshop will not only present the variety of empirical&nbsp\;and theoretical approaches to semantics\, but also invites explicit&nbsp\;discussions of the neurobiological and psychological basis of semantics as&nbsp\;well as its methods\, and epistemology.</p>\n<p>INVITED SPEAKERS<br>Giosue Baggio (SISSA\, Triest)<br>Derek Ball (U St. Andrews)<br>Emma Borg (U Reading)<br>Anna Borghi (U Bologna)<br>Manfred Krifka (ZAS\, Berlin)<br>Gina Kuperberg (MGH\, Tufts U)<br>Ira Noveck (CNRS\, Lyon)<br>Paul Pietroski (U Maryland)<br>Michiel van Lambalgen (U Amsterdam)</p>\n<p>We invite abstract submissions for papers (25+5 min) and posters related to&nbsp\;the topics of the conference.<br><br>Exemplary topics:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compositionality</li>\n<li>Computational complexity in language</li>\n<li>Discourse semantics</li>\n<li>Generalized quantifiers</li>\n<li>Implicatures and presuppositions</li>\n<li>Interfaces between syntax\, semantics and pragmatics</li>\n<li>Lexical semantics</li>\n<li>Possible worlds semantics</li>\n<li>The nature of meaning: abstract-symbolic or embodied-simulative</li>\n<li>etc.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Methods:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Formal semantics</li>\n<li>General philosophical issues regarding semantics</li>\n<li>Philosophy of linguistics</li>\n<li>Semantics in experimental philosophy &ndash\; experimental pragmatics</li>\n<li>Semantics with corpus-linguistic methods</li>\n<li>Semantics with neuro-linguistic methods</li>\n<li>Semantics with psycho-linguistic methods</li>\n<li>etc.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Abstract Submission Deadline: June 16\, 2013</p>\n<p>CONTACT:&nbsp\;insemp@rub.de.</p>
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