Call for papers

Linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and interested researchers from other areas are cordially invited to join the 20th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics to be held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic on March 1-4, 2019.

This year's invited speakers are:

Łukasz Dębowski (Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences)
Hana Filip (Institute for Language and Information, HHU Düsseldorf)
Justyna Grudzińska (Institute of Philosophy University of Warsaw)
Dolf Rami (Department of Philosophy, GAU Göttingen)

We especially invite papers on this year's special theme "Information and language structure". We also welcome contributions relevant to any of the more classical subjects of this workshop series. Experimental as well as theoretical approaches are welcome. We in particular encourage the presentation of innovative ideas, even if still in need of later refinement and submissions by students who have no previous experience presenting at international workshops.

More traditional Szklarska Poręba themes include:

Coordination on meaning
Inference in natural language
Experimental semantics and pragmatics
Bayesian models of interpretation
Quantum cognition and language
Grammaticalisation and other approaches to diachrony
Language typology and semantics/pragmatics
Game theoretical pragmatics
Formal models of language acquisition
Explicature and implicature
The architecture of the syntax/semantics interface
Licensing of polarity elements, quantification etc.
The evolution of communication and language
Optimality theory

Submission instructions

We invite submission of blind abstracts in PDF format, to be sent to szklarskaworkshop20@gmail.com by December 16, 2018. Abstract guidelines are:

no longer than one A4 page including references, 2.5 cm margins, 11pt.

If this is your first presentation outside of your home institution, please indicate this in your cover email.