SPATIAL RELATIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by HUBERT.CUYCKENS(a)ARTS.KULEUVEN.AC.BE follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (With apologies for cross-postings) CALL FOR PAPERS for the PANEL SESSION SPATIAL RELATIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE (THE CONCEPTUALIZATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SITUATED USE OF SPATIAL RELATIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE - title in full) as part of the 7th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE organized by the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), to be held in Budapest, Hungary, 9-14 July 2000. Panel organizers: L=E1szl=F3 I. Koml=F3si (P=E9cs ); email: Komlosi(a)btk.jpte.hu Hubert Cuyckens (Leuven); email: Hubert.Cuyckens(a)arts.kuleuven.ac.be The PANEL SESSION on THE CONCEPTUALIZATION, CONSTRUCTION AND SITUATED USE OF SPATIAL RELATIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE is an initiative to bring together linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, etc., attending the 7th International Pragmatics for a specifically-focused forum to discuss the pragmatics-related aspects of the relation between language and spatial cognition, the conceptualization of abstract relations in terms of spatial relations and its symbolization in natural language, and the construal of spatial relations in language.=20 .The PANEL SESSIONS on SPATIAL RELATIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE will be held in the PARALLEL SESSIONS slot of the IprA 2000 Conference program. The final number of the PANEL SESSION units on SPATIAL RELATIONS will be determined by the number of contributions accepted for presentation. The maximum number of contributions to the panel is twelve (for a total of three units). Each PANEL SESSION will meet for 90 minutes, and comprises a set of four 15-minute contributions and 30 minutes of general discussion. Written versions or extensive outlines of all panel contributions should be made available to the other contributors prior to the conference to facilitate discussion. We invite you to submit your panel presentations to the PANEL ORGANIZERS (addresses below) by NOVEMBER 1, 1999. Panel presentations will be subject to anonymous review Paper submissions for panel contributions should contain: 1. an e-mail version (word and/or rtf encoding) of the one-page abstract, to be sent to both Hubert Cuyckens (Hubert.Cuyckens(a)arts.kuleuven.ac.be) and L=E1szl=F3 I. Koml=F3si (Komlosi(a)btk.jpte.hu); 2. 10 (ten) copies of the printed, hard-copy-version of the ONE-PAGE-ABSTRACT together with a printed, hard-copy-version of the IPrA official PAPER SUBMISSION FORM to be sent to Hubert Cuyckens at the following address: Hubert Cuyckens Dept of Linguistics KU Leuven Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven Belgium Paper submission forms, submission guidelines, and Registration forms are to be found on the IPrA website: http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ PAPER SUBMISSION FORM All prospective presenters of panel contributions MUST return this paper submission form together with 10 one-page abstracts to panel organizer=20 Hubert Cuyckens=20 Dept of Linguistics KU Leuven Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 B-3000 Leuven Belgium (a) Name(s), (b) full address(es), (c ) fax number(s), (d) e-mail address(es) of author(s): 1.=09 a. b. c. d. 2.=09 a. b. c. d. 3.=09 a. b. c. d. Paper title of panel contribution: ( ) My/our contribution was invited by the panel organizer(s) below ( ) I/we propose placement of my/our contribution in the panel below ( ) (I/we understand that the Conference Committee reserves the right to reassign my/our contribution as an individual lecture or as a poster) Panel organizer(s): Panel title Equipment required: ( ) overhead projector ( ) video ( ) audio cassette player (Other types of equipment may be made available, but the rental price - which will no doubt be high - will have to be charged to the user.) Everyone will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance towards the end of January 2000. Sumbission checklist =20 Abstract ( ) 10 copies of a one-page abstract are enclosed Registration ( ) My/our registration form(s) is/are enclosed ( ) My/our registration form(s) will be sent directly to the IPrA= Secretariat ( ) I/we understand that I/we will have to be fully registered before March 1st 2000 in order for my/our contribution to be entered into the preliminary program