konferenciafelhívás--LoLa

The Tenth Symposium on Logic and Language Budapest/Gardony, Hungary August 26-29, 2009 http://www.nytud.hu/lola10 e-mail: lola10(a)nytud.hu CALL FOR PAPERS The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the Tenth Symposium on Logic and Language, to be held on August 26-29, 2009 in Gardony, Hungary. The 2009 meeting is the tenth installment of the Symposium series, which is designed to provide a forum where logicians and linguists can meet to share and discuss ideas and issues about how linguistics and logic influence each other, with the aim of promoting a fruitful cooperation. Preceding symposia took place in Debrecen (1987), Hajduszoboszlo (1989), Revfulop (1990), Budapest (1992), Noszvaj (1994), Budapest (1998), Pecs (2002), Debrecen (2004), and Besenyotelek (2006). The organizers invite papers that analyze the interpretation of all kinds of expressions in natural languages by formal means, or investigate the logical and computational properties or philosophical foundations of semantic theories. Invited speakers: Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz) Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University) Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Universitaet Frankfurt). The individual presentations are planned to last for 30 minutes. Deadline for submission of abstracts: EXTENDED TILL February 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 Anonymous abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format (a maximum of two abstracts per person, one single-authored and one co-authored). The abstracts should be a maximum of four pages, including examples and references. The name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the author and the title of the paper should be provided in the body of the e-mail message. Submissions should be sent to: lola10(a)nytud.hu. A proceedings will be published electronically on the conference homepage by the conference date. The guidelines for the submission of 8-page articles will be made available for the prospective authors by the time of the notification of acceptance. Deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings: June 10, 2009 Venue, transportation: The symposium, following the tradition of the first meetings in the 1980s, will take place in the Hungarian countryside, in a hotel with conference facilities, to provide the participants the possibility for discussion in a more informal setting. The venue of the 2009 symposium is Hotel Gardony, situated at Lake Velence, 50 km southwest of Budapest (www.cometohungary.com/hotel_gardony.html). There will be a bus on the evening of August 26 taking participants from Budapest to the conference location, but participants can also travel individually, by train or by long-distance buses that run regularly. Registration: The registration fee will include accommodation from the evening of August 26 through the morning of August 29, breakfasts, dinners, coffee breaks, and an excursion, and is expected to amount to the equivalent of 240-320 EUR +- 10% in Hungarian Forints (the exact sum depending on room type, student/non-student status, and the current exchange rate between HUF and EUR). Registration deadline: April 30, 2009 Organizing committee: Agnes Bende-Farkas Kinga Gardai Zsofia Gyarmathy Beata Gyuris Laszlo Kalman Cecilia Molnar Marta Peredy Karoly Varasdi Important dates: NEW deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 Registration deadline: April 30, 2009 Deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings: June 10, 2009 LoLa10: August 26-29, 2009