Conference: Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 6 (SPE 6)

January 30, 2013 · by Zheng | in Conferences & Workshops | tagged SPE

SPE 6: Jun. 10-14, 2013
Venue: Bobrinsky Palace, Smolny College, St Petersburg, Russia.

Invited Speakers:

GENERAL SESSION:
Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst / Moscow State University)
Kjell Johan Sæbø (University of Oslo)

SPECIAL SESSIONS:
[1] The Interface between Linguistic Semantics and Philosophy of Mind
Berit Brogaard (University of Missouri, Saint Louis)
Frances Egan (Rutgers University)
Scott Soames (University of Southern California)

Tutorial:
Robert Matthews (Rutgers University)
Friederike Moltmann (IHPST (Paris1/ENS/CNRS), Paris)

[2] The Status of Semantics in the History of Generative Grammar
John Collins (University of East Anglia)
Wolfram Hinzen (Durham / Barcelona)
Robert May / Adam Sennett (UC Davis)
Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)

[3] Empirical Methods in the Investigation of Semantics
Erica Cosentino (Calabria / Bochum)
Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St. Petersburg State University / NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow)
Natalia Slioussar (Utrecht institute of Linguistics / St. Petersburg State University)
Markus Werning (Bochum)

Conference Website: http://spe6conference.wordpress.com/

Workshop: Workshop on Semantic Variation

January 30, 2013 · by Zheng | in Conferences & Workshops

Workshop on Semantic Variation (October 25-26, 2013)
Venue: University of Chicago

Invited Speakers:
Ivano Caponigro (UC, San Diego)
Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
Ed Keenan (UCLA)
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)

Conference website: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/semvar2013/

Conference: AFLA 20

January 29, 2013 · by Zheng | in Conferences & Workshops | tagged AFLA

AFLA 20: May. 17-19, 2013.
Venue: UT Arlington

Invited Speakers:
Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Eric Potsdam (University of Florida)
Norvin Richards (MIT)

Program: http://www.uta.edu/faculty/sabbagh/afla20/program/
Conference Website: http://ling.uta.edu/~afla20/

Workshop: WSCLA 18

January 20, 2013 · by Zheng | in Conferences & Workshops | tagged WSCLA

WSCLA 18: April 5-7, 2013.
Venue: University of California, Berkeley.

Invited speakers:

Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz)
Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (Victoria)
Monica Macaulay (Wisconsin)
B’alam Mateo Toledo (CIESAS)
Joyce McDonough (Rochester)
Andrés Salanova (Ottawa)
Maziar Toosarvandani (MIT)
Lorna Williams (Victoria)

Website: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~wscla/index.html

Conference: NACCL 25

January 14, 2013 · by Zheng | in Conferences & Workshops | tagged NACCL

NACCL 25: June 21 – June 23, 2013.
Venue: University of Michigan, US.

Confirmed participants:
Maria Bittner, Rutgers University
Marjorie Chan (陈洁雯), The Ohio State University
W. South Coblin (柯蔚南), University of Iowa
Laurent Sagart (沙加尔), Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale, Paris
Wuyun Pan (潘悟云), Shanghai Normal University

Conference Website: http://naccl25.net/

Workshop: Distance in Language, Language of Distance

January 9, 2013 · by Zheng | in Conferences & Workshops

Workshop: Distance in Language, Language of Distance
Date: Apr. 05-06, 2013.
Venue: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Institute of Slavic Philology (Munich / Germany)

Plenary Speakers:

Grace E. Fielder (University of Arizona)
Lieven Vandelanotte (University of Namur): ‘The Language of Distance in Grammar and Discourse’

Conference Website: http://www.slavistik.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/conference/index.html