Natu ral language semantics is today a wide-ranging and methodologically diverse discipline. One can dist inguish broadly between those who use experimental methods from those who don't. Mostly, semanticist s in psychology or neuro-science work experimental ly, while philosophers, logicians and linguists wo rk non-experimentally. However, the variety of app roaches and methods among both groups is huge. Eve n within the camp of theoretical semantics there a re numerous communities: formal semantics, possibl e world semantics, discourse representation theory , etc. The same heterogeneity is present in the ca mp of empirical researchers: psycho- and neuro-lin guistics, corpus linguistics, etc.
\nThe aim of the workshop is to bring together these different branches which are often working on ver y related topics. The workshop will not only prese nt the variety of empirical and theoretical approa ches to semantics, but also invites explicit discu ssions of the neurobiological and psychological ba sis of semantics as well as its methods, and epist emology.
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\nWe invite abs tract submissions for papers (30 min including dis cussion) and posters related to the topics of the conference. Submission deadline: June 16, 2013.
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