Logic and Linguistics

Here the schedule of the workshop

Workshop organized by

Marcos Lopes
 (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

and

Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska
(University of Opole, Poland)

 

Natural and artificial languages structured by grammar and logic are important tools of thinking, cognition of the world and knowledge acquisition which stand as foundations to our sense of existence. The purpose of this workshop is to bring forth the universal components functioning in logic, philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. It aims to inspire for research on logical linguistic structures theories, as well as cognitive and computational linguistics.

From a universal perspective, logic and linguistics should try to answer the following questions:

  • What is language and its expressions and what are their ontological and conceptual counterparts, if any?
  • What is the meaning of language expressions and how to compute or calculate it?
  • What is the difference between meaning and denotation of a language expression?
  • What are the general principles of using language for communicative, cognitive and argumentative purposes?
  • Does language cognition differ in anyway from language computation?

Call for papers

We invite all interested in the following or related topics to submit papers:

  • Peirce's token-type distinction of language objects
  • formal grammars, in particular categorial grammars
  • universal syntax and semantics assumptions
  • parts and constituents of language expressions
  • intensional and extensional semantics
  • meaning, object reference, denotation and interpretation of linguistic expressions
  • principles of compositionality
  • cognitive and computational linguistics issues

 

Abstract for this workshop should be sent via e-mail before November 15th 2012 to:

marcoslopes@usp.br  or

skardowska@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

  

Keynote Speakers

Jonathan Ginzburg
University Denis Diderot - Paris7, France
"Quotation via Dialogical Interaction"

Andrzej Wisniewski
Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
"Effectiveness of Question-Answer Systems"

Contributing Speakers

María Inés Corbalán, State University of Campinas, Brazil, Inflected Infinitive, Control and Anaphora in Portuguese

Jean-Pierre Desclés, Anca Pascu & Hee-Jin Ro, STIH-LaLIC, University Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, France, Aspecto-Temporal Meanings Analyzed by means of Combinatory Logics

Brendan S. Gillon, McGill University, Canada, Complement Polyvalence and Polyadicity

Dany Jaspers, CRISSP - HUBrussel / FormL-KULeuven, Belgium The Concept Formation Constraint

Marek Krótkiewicz & Krystian Wojtkiewicz, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Opole University, Poland, Logic, Language and Information: Functional and structural integration without competence overstepping

Michel Assis Navarro, University of São Paulo, Brazil Ontology through Semantics in Donald Davidson

Livy Real & Christian Retoré, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil - Labri / Inria/ CNRS, France A Generative Montagovian Lexicon for Polysemous Deverbal Nouns

Marta Sznajder, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Germany Intensional Verbs, their Intensional Objects and Axiomatic Metaphysics