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• 25.06.2020: We have sent out the proceedings (https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/about) for publication.

• 10.09.2019: SuB24 was a great success. You can find the slides or papers of all the invited talks below.

  • 31.08.2019: The conference will take place next week! Here is a booklet (updated on 03.09) with some practical information including the schedule. You will receive a printed version when you register at the conference site. Presenters can use slides or handouts.

• 25.07.2019: Program updated with links to non-anonymous abstracts

• 23.06.2019: We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for SuB24!

• 30.05.2019: We are done with the reviewing thanks to so many reviewers' help. Notifications are out!

• 12.03.2019: We received 218 abstract submissions, which we will send out for reviewing soon.

Sinn und Bedeutung 24 is hosted by the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Institute of Philosophy at Osnabrück University, Germany.

The conference will include a 3-day main session and a 1-day special session on the topic Neurolinguistic Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics.  

Invited speakers (main session):

• Chris Barker (New York University) 

  • Rethinking scope islands  (SLIDES) 

  • Judith Degen (Stanford University)  

  • The Rational Speech Act framework: an integrative theory of the interaction between literal meaning, world knowledge and context (SLIDES) 

• Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz) 

  • In search of the narrator: Context, discourse and subjective interpretation (SLIDES) 

• Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) 

  • Veridicality, subjectivity and grammatical mood: doxastic verbs and modals  (SLIDES) 

Invited speakers (special session):

• Mante S. Nieuwland (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen)

  • Comprehension of referential and pragmatic meaning: An electrophysiological perspective (SLIDES) 

• Markus Werning (University of Bochum) 

  • The interaction of Bayesian pragmatics and lexical semantics in online sentence meaning composition (PAPER1) (PAPER2) 

Important dates:

• Abstract submission deadline: March 10, 2019 (23:59 Central European Standard Time)

• Notification of acceptance: Early June, 2019

• Main session: September 4-6, 2019

• Special session: September 7, 2019 

Organizers:

Michael Franke, Nikola Kompa, Mingya Liu, Jutta L. Mueller

Email: sub24.2019@gmail.com