Journée d'études/Workshop

Meaning, Optimization and Interaction (MOI)

https://sites.google.com/site/labexeflsa4/home/moi-workshop

September 9^th, 2016

Paris, France

In the context of the project Near-Synonymy, Semantic Equivalence and Syntactic Variation funded by the Labex Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, we invite submissions for presentations at a one-day workshop (September 9^th, 2016) devoted to the theme of competition and optimization in natural language, with a particular focus on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic (including social) phenomena.

We particularly solicit contributions combining novel quantitative studies of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and/or sociolinguistic variation and change with formal modelling (for example using Optimality Theoretic/Harmonic grammars, game theoretic tools, alternative semantics or other formal systems).

Invited Speakers:

Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Roland Mühlenbernd (Universität Tübingen)

Henriëtte de Swart (Universiteit Utrecht)

Final call for papers:

One page abstracts (excluding references) are to be submitted to [log in to unmask], on or before August 1^st, 2016. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by August 9^th, 2016.

The workshop will be held in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle on the campus of the Université Paris Diderot, in the 13^th arrondissement of Paris.

The languages of the workshop are English and French.

The MOI workshop is a satellite event of the New Ideas in Semantics and Modelling conference.  

This work is part of the program "Investissements d’Avenir" overseen by the French National Research Agency, ANR-10-LABX-0083 (Labex EFL). The Near-synonymy, Semantic Equivalence and Syntactic Variation project forms part of Strand 2 of the Labex EFL: Experimental Grammar in a Crosslinguistic Perspective.

Workshop Organizers

Heather Burnett (LLF-CNRS-Université Paris Diderot)

Berit Gehrke (LLF-CNRS-Université Paris Diderot)

Tatiana Nikitina (LLCAN-CNRS-Inalco)