Sept. 17, 2024 - Sept. 19, 2024
Sinn und Bedeutung 29 will take place at C.U.M.O. in Noto, Sicily, from September 17-19, 2024. The conference is jointly organized by the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education and Cultural Studies (COSPECS), University of Messina and the Department of Humanities, Foreign Languages and Education, University of Enna “Kore”. Additional support is provided by the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) (ZAS, Department of Semantics and Pragmatics) The conference will feature a three-day main session (Sept. 17-19) and two satellite events, a pre-event workshop entitled "Evidentials in non-canonical speech acts" (Palazzo Pupillo Syracuse, September 16) and a post-event workshop entitled "Does semantics have a 'too many tools' problem?” (Noto, September 20).
The invited speaker to main conference are:
- Elena Pagliarini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
- Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
- Viola Schmitt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Submission instructions:
We invite abstract submissions for talks or posters on topics pertaining the main session and to the workshop. Only original research can be be presented that has not been published or accepted for publication at the time of submission. One person may submit at most one abstract as sole author and one abstract as co-author (or two co-authored abstracts) for the main session. The same submission limit applies for each workshop, but workshop submissions don’t count towards the main session limit or vice versa. The same style requirements apply for workshops and main session, but please note that content specifications, deadlines and submission links are distinct.
All submissions must be electronic in the form of PDF files. Make sure that the files are anonymous and must not reveal the identities of the authors in any form. Abstracts should fit two pages (letter size or A4 paper, 2.5cm or 1 inch margins on all sides, 12 point font, Times New Roman or similar), with an additional third page used exclusively for the following elements: references (obligatory), large figures or tables, as many lines as there are lines of glosses and translations in non-English glossed examples. Examples (glossed or not) should be interspersed in the text, rather than collected at the end.
All work pertaining to natural language semantics and pragmatics can be presented at the main session. Abstracts are invited for 25 minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion and for poster presentations. We welcome work that uses evidence from experiments using behavioral, neuro-imaging, or other measurements, evidence from computational modeling, evidence from under-represented languages, evidence from non-linguistic communication as well as work from philosophical, logical, morphological, syntactic and other perspectives, but all work should contribute to articulating a formal model of natural language semantics and pragmatics.
Submissions open: Jan. 21, 2024 - April 19, 2024
Abstract review period: April 6, 2024 - June 15, 2024