16 November 2013

Call for Papers: Semantics and Philosophy in Europe

7th Colloquium Semantics and Philosophy in Europe — SPE 7

Hosted by Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin in cooperation with Institut für Philosophie and Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik  at Humboldt University Berlin

 Place:    Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin

Date:     June 26-28 , 2014 (conference),  June 25, 2014 (tutorials)

WEB:     www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/spe7

The Semantics and Philosophy in Europe colloquia provide a forum for presenting research in the interface between linguistic semantics and various areas in philosophy (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/cognition, metaphysics etc.). In addition to the general session, SPE 7 will feature two special sessions and offer two preconference tutorials.

 Special sessions:

  • Conceptual structures and truth-conditional semantics
  • Attitudes towards questions

Tutorials:

  • Questions: from embedded clauses to speech acts (Manfred Krifka, ZAS)
  • Evaluative predicates (Friederike Moltmann, CNRS, Carla Umbach, ZAS)

The submission deadline is 1. February 2014.  
For submission details cfwww.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/spe7/call.html