Conditional and Unconditional Modality

This workshop will be held as part of the 15th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), August 18-29, 2003, Vienna, Austria.

WORKSHOP AIMS

The workshop is intended as part of a research program that aims

• to explore the logical constructs for alethic, deontic, and epistemic modalities which underlie the semantics of natural language modals and conditionals.
• to provide a theoretical basis for the various descriptive generalizations capturing the distribution and interpretation of modal expressions in terms of the modal and temporal notions involved.
• to build compositional semantics for various types of modal expressions that is uniform across conditional and non-conditional uses.

We invite presentations that address any of the following topics.

• Logical tools to extend, refine or reconstruct the traditional apparatus of possible worlds, times and events.
• Semantic analyses of modal expressions and conditionals.
• Empirical studies on the morphosyntactic and semantic interaction of modal and temporal expressions cross-linguistically.
• Relation between illocutionary operators underlying evidential systems across a variety of languages and epistemic modalities.
• Context-dependence and dynamic effects of modal and evidential assertions.

The workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers working in different linguistic schools and to bridge the gap between l'art pour l'art logic and empirically grounded linguistic analysis.

CALL FOR PAPERS

All researchers in the area are invited to submit short papers (between 1600 and 3200 words) describing their thesis/research topic, approach and results. Talks will be 45 minutes long, including 10 - 15 minutes for discussion.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS

March 7, 2003

Paper submissions should be sent to

Prof. dr. Frank Veltman Department of Philosophy University of Amsterdam Nieuwe Doelenstraat 15 1012 CP Amsterdam The Netherlands

Electronic submission is also welcomed. In this case submissions should be in the form of either an ASCII, Postscript or pdf-file, and sent to:

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by April 15th, 2003. The deadline for receipt of revised papers to appear in the workshop proceedings is May 14th, 2003.

ORGANIZERS

The workshop is organized by the Interest Group in Mood & Modality.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Cleo Condoravdi, PARC and Stanford University
• Stefan Kaufmann, Northwestern University, Chicago
• Jan Nuyts, University of Antwerp
• Frank Veltman, University of Amsterdam

WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop will consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each, held over five days. There will be two presentations at each session with time for questions and discussion.

REGISTRATION

Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-2003. Reduced registration fees apply to authors of accepted papers. The workshop is open to all ESSLLI participants.

IMPORTANT DATES

March 7, 2003:	Deadline for submissions
Apr 15, 2003:	Notification of acceptance
May 15, 2003:	Deadline for final copy
Aug 25, 2003:	Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION

To obtain further information about ESSLLI-2003, please visit the ESSLLI site.