Conference “Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models” will be held November 19-21, 2010 in Riga.

The aim of the conference “Formal Semantics and Pragmatics: Discourse, Context, and Models” is to stimulate exchange among linguists and philosophers about issues in formal semantics and pragmatics and how they bear on foundational issues in linguistic theory, the philosophy of language and cognition.

Invited symposium organizers:

• Barbara H. Partee (Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
• Michael Glanzberg (Philosophy, University of California at Davis, USA)

Invited speakers:

• Paul Dekker (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, NL)
• Kai von Fintel (Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Nirit Kadmon (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, IS)
• Manfred Krifka (Linguistics, Humboldt University, D)
• Fred Landman (Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv, IS)
• Jeff Pelletier (Philosophy and Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, CAN)
• Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
• Christopher Potts (Linguistics, Stanford University, USA)
• Craige Roberts (Linguistics and Philosophy, Ohio State University, USA)
• Maribel Romero (Linguistics, University of Konstanz, D)
• Susan Rothstein (Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, IS)
• Philippe Schlenker (Cognitive Studies, Institute Jean-Nicod, F/
  Linguistics, New York University, USA)
• Martin Stokhof (Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, NL)
• Anna Szabolcsi (New York University, USA)
• Zoltán Gendler Szabó (Philosophy, Yale University, USA)
• Dag Westerståhl (Philosophy, University of Göteborg, SE)
• Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Institute for Cognitive Linguistics, University of Frankfurt, D)

For further information: http://cognition.lu.lv

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