THEORY AND DESCRIPTION WORKSHOP
Sept. 26-28, 2007
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
A one day workshop on Definiteness and Referentiality will be held in conjunction with the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference 2007 at the University of Adelaide. We welcome papers on Australian, Austronesian, Asian and other natural languages, and in all areas of linguistics including sociolinguistics, language variation and change, first/second language acquisition, conversational analysis, and cognitive (including psycho-/neurolinguistic) processing of definiteness. The following topics are of particular interest:
--data based studies of definiteness properties in particular languages
--theoretical aspects of definiteness and/or specificity
--the article systems of a language group(s)
--the interaction of definiteness/specificity with the grammar of a language
--the behaviour of subsystems within languages, e.g. polarity references and number and quantification of nouns
--the acquisition and development of definiteness and/or referentiality in child and second languages
--language change in progress with respect to a property or subsystem of a language.
Proposals for either a General Session or a Poster Session should include the author's name and affiliation, contact details (including e-mail and postal addresses), title of the paper, keywords, and a one page abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding examples and references. Key references may include, but are not limited to, the work of Irene Heim, M. En, Kamp & Reyle (DRT), B. Partee, Donka Farkas, T.Giv—n, Christopher Lyons, J. Hawkins, and M. Haspelmath. In your submission, please indicate your preference, and, if your choice is a General Session, please state whether you would be willing to do a poster.
Each abstract will be blind reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:
--Topic appropriate to the workshop theme
--Paper contributing new knowledge on the topic
--Argument supported by data from natural language
--Clear statement of results
Abstracts should be sent electronically in the body of the e-mail message and also as an attachment in PDF or rtf format to Korpi.DefWorkshop@anu.edu.au In the e-mail subject line, please write ÔNAME ALSDEFworkshopÕ where NAME is your surname.
DEADLINE for abstracts is March 16th with notification of acceptance by April 30.
The format of the sessions will be 20 minutes for each paper, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be displayed for one whole day, with a time slot for discussing them.
Selected papers from the workshop will be peer reviewed and published in a special volume devoted to the workshop theme.
Workshop organizers:
Marie Fellbaum Korpi (The Australian National University)
Brett Baker (University of New England)
Harumi Minagawa (The University of Auckland)
Lesley Stirling (The University of Melbourne)
Workshop Homepage URL http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~bbaker2/ALS2007DefWorkshop/index.htm
ALS Conference Homepage URL http://als2007.als.asn.au