5th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning
2026-04-03 01:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Beijing, China
The TLLM workshops aim to bring together logicians, philosophers, and linguists around a specific theme of common interest. For the 2026 event, the theme is unusually wide, and we welcome contributions on any general or particular aspect of the modalities in logic or language. Below are just a few examples of possible topics for this workshop.

1 Foundations and semantics of modality: E.g. Kripke/neighborhood/possibility/topological/ game-theoretic/inquisitive/team semantics.

2 Proof theory for modal logic: E.g. sequent/natural deduction/labelled/circular/display/ deep inference systems.

3 Epistemic and doxastic logics.

4 Deontic logic, norms and preference.

5 Modality in natural language: E.g. epistemic/deontic/dynamic modals; weak necessity and gradability; syntax of modals; semantic-pragmatic interface; cross-linguistic typology; experimental and corpus studies.

6 Non-classical perspectives on modality: E.g. intuitionistic/linear/relevant/paraconsistent/ modal bilattice frameworks; bilateralist accounts.

7 Modality in computation, verification, and AI: E.g. KR with modalities; causal and probabilistic modal models; LLMs and modal reasoning (benchmarks, neurosymbolic methods, toolkits).

8 Modality and other intensional categories: e.g. modality and tense; modality and evidentiality; modality and mood. 9 The processing and acquisition of modal expressions in natural languages

Invited Speakers

Stefan Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)

Graham Leigh (University of Gothenburg)

Paul Portner (Georgetown University)

Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, Tsinghua University)

Yingying Wang (Hunan University)

Contributed Papers

We invite submissions of 2-page abstracts (including references) on any of the broad themes related to modality in logic and language as suggested above. After a review procedure, authors of accepted papers will be invited to present them at the workshop, either as a contributed talk or in the poster session. The poster session is intended to provide an informal setting for discussion and to encourage participation from early-career researchers and students. After the workshop, a volume of full papers (properly refereed) will be published in the Springer LNCS – FoLLI series. Details on submission of full papers will follow.

Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=tllm2026

The workshop will take place on site at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

5th Tsinghua Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language and Meaning
2026-04-03 09:00 - 2026-04-05 17:00
The TLLM workshops aim to bring together logicians, philosophers, and linguists around a specific theme of common interest. For the 2026 event, the theme is unusually wide, and we welcome contributions on any general or particular aspect of the modalities in logic or language. Below are just a few examples of possible topics for this workshop.

1 Foundations and semantics of modality: E.g. Kripke/neighborhood/possibility/topological/ game-theoretic/inquisitive/team semantics.

2 Proof theory for modal logic: E.g. sequent/natural deduction/labelled/circular/display/ deep inference systems.

3 Epistemic and doxastic logics.

4 Deontic logic, norms and preference.

5 Modality in natural language: E.g. epistemic/deontic/dynamic modals; weak necessity and gradability; syntax of modals; semantic-pragmatic interface; cross-linguistic typology; experimental and corpus studies.

6 Non-classical perspectives on modality: E.g. intuitionistic/linear/relevant/paraconsistent/ modal bilattice frameworks; bilateralist accounts.

7 Modality in computation, verification, and AI: E.g. KR with modalities; causal and probabilistic modal models; LLMs and modal reasoning (benchmarks, neurosymbolic methods, toolkits).

8 Modality and other intensional categories: e.g. modality and tense; modality and evidentiality; modality and mood.

9 The processing and acquisition of modal expressions in natural languages

Invited Speakers

Stefan Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
Graham Leigh (University of Gothenburg)
Paul Portner (Georgetown University)
Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland, Tsinghua University)
Yingying Wang (Hunan University)
