%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Second and Last Call for Papers % % % % THE NINTH AMSTERDAM COLLOQUIUM % % 14-th -- 17-th December 1993 % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The ninth edition of the AMSTERDAM COLLOQUIUM will be held: From Tuesday 14-th till Friday 17-th of DECEMBER 1993 For general information about the Amsterdam Colloquiua, cf., below. The Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium consists of invited lectures and contributed talks. The following people have in principle accepted our invitation to give a lecture: Jens Erik Fenstad (Oslo) Erhard Hinrichs (T\"ubingen) David Israel (Stanford) Hans Kamp (Stuttgart) Barbara Partee (Amherst) Mats Rooth (Stuttgart) Mark Steedman (Philadelphia) The Colloquium furthermore has room for 40 contributed talks of approximately 40 minutes. People who want to contribute a paper are requested to send in SIX ANONYMOUS copies of an extended ABSTRACT of two to three pages (1000 words). The abstract must include a short, 10 line, SUMMARY clearly indicating subject matter and conclusions. A separate leaflet should specify the author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address plus the title of the contribution. The DEADLINE for submissions is September 1-st, 1993. All abstracts will be strictly refereed by a program committee, consisting of: Renate Bartsch (Amsterdam) Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam) Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) Jens Erik Fenstad (Oslo) Hans Kamp (Stuttgart) Ewan Klein (Edinburgh) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Barbara Partee (Amherst) Mark Steedman (Philadelphia) Frank Veltman (Amsterdam) Contributors will be notified of acceptance by October 15. In November, the program, which includes the summaries of the accepted papers, will be distributed among the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings, due March 1994. The deadline for sending in final versions of the papers is February 1-st. IMPORTANT DATES 15 May Call for papers 15 July Second and last call for papers --> 1 September Deadline for submissions 3 September Abstracts are forwarded to program committee 10-30 September Abstracts are refereed 7-14 October Establishing the program --> 15 October Notification of acceptance 15 November Distribution of program 14-17 December Amsterdam colloquium 1 February Final versions of papers due 15 March Publication of proceedings In order to smooth organization, it would be very much appreciated if anyone who intends to send in an abstract lets us know as soon as possible. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % % _ _ _ _ _____________ % % / \ / \ | \ | | |___ _______| % % /---\ | | \ | | _ _ _ | | _ _ % % / \ \ _ / | \ | | |_| | \ | | | | | | | | % % | |\ \ | | _ | \ | | | | | | | | % % | | \ \ | | | | | \ | | | | | |_| | % % | | \ \| | | | | |\ \| | | | | _ | % % _ _ _ | | \ | | | | | \ | | | | | | | % % | |_| |_| _| | | \ | | | | | \ | | | | | | | % % | _| _| _| |_| \_| |_| |_| \_| |_| |_| |_| % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GENERAL INFORMATION The ninth edition of the Amsterdam Colloquium will be held from Tuesday 14-th untill Friday 17-th of December 1993 at the University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Colloquia are organized every two years under the auspices of the ILLC (`Institute for Logic, Language and Computation'), in which the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and the Department of Computational Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam cooperate to stimulate and coordinate interdisciplinary research. The Amsterdam Colloquia focus on the interdisciplinary study of semantics (broadly conceived) and aim at bringing together logicians, philosophers, linguists and computer scientists who share an interest in semantics. The spectrum of topics covered ranges from descriptive (semantic analyses of all kinds of expressions), to theoretical (logical and computational properties of semantic theories, philosophical foundations). The papers presented at the various Colloquia have been collected in the respective Colloquia proceedings (those of the Eighth are still available), and selections of papers have been published in the GRASS-series, FORIS Publications, Dordrecht. The organizing committee of the Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium consists of: Paul Dekker Herman Hendriks Marjorie Pigge Martin Stokhof. Financial support is provided by: the ILLC, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation the Departments of Philosophy, of Mathematics and Computer Science and of Computational Linguistics, from the University of Amsterdam the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) the European Foundation for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) ATTENDANCE The conference fee for the Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium is Dfl 200,-, which includes costs of attendance, lunches, program and a copy of the proceedings. FoLLI members are entitled to a 10\% discount. Registration forms, including hotel registration forms, can be obtained via the organizing committee. If you want to be sent such forms, as soon as they become available, please send in the reply form attached below. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact: Organizing Committee Ninth Amsterdam Colloquium ILLC/Department of Philosophy Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 20 5254541 fax: +31 20 5254503 email: ac9@illc.uva.nl ........................................................... Reply form Name ................................................... Address ................................................... ................................................... City ................... Zip Code ...................... Country ................... email ...................... O wants to receive further information O intends to attend the Colloquium O intends to send in an abstract O wants to be sent the hotel registration form %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% End of Call