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UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2008/newsitem/2462/13-
 14-September-2008-Biosemantics-Workshop-on-the-Sta
 tus-of-Semantics-in-the-Biolinguistic-Approach-to-
 Language
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SUMMARY:Biosemantics: Workshop on the Status of Se
 mantics in the Biolinguistic Approach to Language
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080914
LOCATION:Room 147, Lipsius building, Leiden Univer
 sity
DESCRIPTION:This workshop addresses foundational a
 spects of semantics within a broadly biolinguistic
  approach to language, where explanatory accounts 
 to the semantic component of the language faculty 
 (in comparison tothe sensorimotor component, or sy
 ntax) are still lacking. The workshop's more speci
 fic focus is the question of how syntactic structu
 res feed semantic interpretation. It is particular
 ly devoted to the 'elements of truth', such as pre
 dication, categorization, and reference. Truth is 
 the basic category and theoretical primitive aroun
 d which most semantic theories have been built. Bu
 t only very specific syntactic structures are eval
 uable for truth: not Noun Phrases, in particular. 
 The origin of truth therefore throws up central qu
 estions in the pursuit of biolinguistics: the stru
 cture of the syntax-semantics interface and the ma
 pping of syntactic to semantic categories, clause-
 structure, the theory of categories, the units of 
 computation (phases), the truth-reference distinct
 ion, cross-linguistic variance in categorization, 
 clause-structure, the growth of reference in acqui
 sition, semantics and extra-linguistic domains, th
 e neurological basis of the syntax-semantics inter
 face, and the theory of predication. The conferenc
 e is a part of the NWO-funded ILLC/UvA project on 
 the 'Origins of truth'.    For more information, s
 ee http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/b.arsenijevic/pag
 e2.html
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 This workshop addresses foundational aspects of se
 mantics\n        within a broadly biolinguistic ap
 proach to language, where\n        explanatory acc
 ounts to the semantic component of the language\n 
        faculty (in comparison tothe sensorimotor c
 omponent, or\n        syntax) are still lacking. T
 he workshop's more specific focus\n        is the 
 question of how syntactic structures feed semantic
 \n        interpretation. It is particularly devot
 ed to the 'elements of\n        truth', such as pr
 edication, categorization, and\n        reference.
  Truth is the basic category and theoretical\n    
     primitive around which most semantic theories 
 have been\n        built. But only very specific s
 yntactic structures are\n        evaluable for tru
 th: not Noun Phrases, in particular. The\n        
 origin of truth therefore throws up central questi
 ons in the\n        pursuit of biolinguistics: the
  structure of the\n        syntax-semantics interf
 ace and the mapping of syntactic to\n        seman
 tic categories, clause-structure, the theory of\n 
        categories, the units of computation (phase
 s), the\n        truth-reference distinction, cros
 s-linguistic variance in\n        categorization, 
 clause-structure, the growth of reference in\n    
     acquisition, semantics and extra-linguistic do
 mains, the\n        neurological basis of the synt
 ax-semantics interface, and the\n        theory of
  predication. The conference is a part of the\n   
      NWO-funded ILLC/UvA project on the 'Origins o
 f truth'.\n      </p>\n    \n      <p>\n        Fo
 r more information, see\n        <a target="_blank
 " href="http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/b.arsenijevi
 c/page2.html">http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/b.arse
 nijevic/page2.html</a>\n      </p>\n    
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 14-September-2008-Biosemantics-Workshop-on-the-Sta
 tus-of-Semantics-in-the-Biolinguistic-Approach-to-
 Language
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