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15th Amsterdam Colloquium

The Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium will be held December 19 - 21 at the University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Colloquia aim at bringing together linguists, philosophers, logicians and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (syntactic and semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions) to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations, evolution and learning of language).

Program

The program of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium consists of:

• the General Program which includes invited lectures by:
  • Sigrid Beck (Linguistics, University of Conneticut)
  • Nissim Francez (The Technion, Haifa)
  • Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
  • Lawrence S. Moss (Indiana University, Bloomington)
  and 30 contributed papers
• the 2005 Vienna Circle evening lecture by:
  • Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol)
• Workshop on Language and Learning, organized by Pieter Adriaans, Robert van Rooij and Khalil Sima'an;
  invited speakers:
  • James Cussens (Department of Computer Science, University of York)
  • Jacqueline van Kampen (OTS, Utrecht)
  • Makoto Kanazawa (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)
  • Claire Nedellec (INRA, Jouy-en-Josas)
• Workshop on "Semantics Universals", organized by Paul Dekker and Kees Hengeveld;
  invited speakers:
  • Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp)
  • David Gil (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
  • Helen de Hoop (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
  • Ed Keenan (UCLA, Los Angeles)

Important Dates

01-06-05	Second call for papers	01-09-05	Deadline for submission
15-10-05	Notification of acceptance	15-11-05	Deadline for proceedings
19 - 21 December 2005 Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium

Organization

The Amsterdam Colloquia are oganized by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. The organizing committee of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium consists of Paul Dekker, Michael Franke, Jeroen Groenendijk, Robert van Rooij, Katrin Schulz, and Marjan Veldhuisen.

Contact

For information contact:

Organization Committee Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium
ILLC/ Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15, 1012 CP Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 5254541, Fax: +31 20 5254503
website: www.illc.uva.nl/AC05
email: P.J.E.Dekker@uva.nl