Logic, Grammar, and Meaning

Areas: Philosophy of language, linguistics,  philosophy of linguistics, logic, philosophy of logic, philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology, and history of early analytic philosophy.

Abstract. The "Logic, Grammar, and Language" Conference explores the the multifarious interactions between logic and natural language. We are interested to explore the relation(s) between logic and natural language from empirical (linguistic), philosophical, and logical perspectives.

Call for Papers

We invite submissions on a broad range of topics related to the main theme of the conference. Possible contributed topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

(a) The role of logical notions (e.g. entailment, contradiction) in linguistics/philosophy of language.

(b) Specific accounts of linguistic phenomena, e.g. quantification, binding, scope, modality, conditionals, gradable adjectives etc..

(c) The consequences of adopting general semantic frameworks (e.g. truth-conditional semantics, dynamic semantics etc.) for understanding the relation between logic and natural language.

(d) Does natural language validate classical rules of inference, e.g. modus ponens?

(e) Are linguistic logical forms (LFs) logical? Does any notion of compositionality imply that language is logical in some interesting theoretical sense?

(f) The role of logic in the historical developments of generative linguistics and philosophy of language.

(g) Is logicality a theoretical virtue of theories/accounts of language? Does language have a logic or should we be pluralists about logic in natural language? What are the limits of conceiving language as logical?

Submission Details

Authors are invited to submit an abstract of 100 words and an extended abstract of 1500 words (or a full paper of up to 8000 words). Please prepare your documents for blind review and save your extended abstract (or paper) as a PDF file. There are 8 slots for contributed papers, each of which will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, followed by a 15 minute discussion. We strongly encourage submissions from graduate students and young researchers. We also support the Gendered Conference Campaign: http://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/gendered-conference-campaign/

Important Dates

Submission deadline: March 20, 2014

Notification of decisions: April 10, 2014

Conference Dates: June 7-9, 2014

Submission Process

For submissions, go to the following Easychair address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lgm1

Once logged in, click on the 'New Submission' tab. Include your 100 word abstract, and then upload a PDF file of your extended abstract or paper.

Registration & Further Information

There is a £40 standard registration fee for non-student participants and a £25 fee for students.  The registration will open at the end of April 2014.

For additional information, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at: [email protected]