THE 4TH NORTH WEST CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR REGISTRATION
CO-ORDINATION: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS
University of Salford, Greater Manchester
16 - 18 November 2001
Organized by Diane Blakemore (University of Salford) & Robyn Carston
(University College London)
With support from the British Academy and the Linguistics Association
of Great Britain.
KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS:
Nicholas Asher (University of Austin Texas)
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Rob Stainton (Carleton University , Ontario)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Co-ordination has been studied as a syntactic phenomenon in a variety
of frameworks - e.g. HPSG, Dynamic Syntax, Word Grammar, Categorial
Grammar, Minimalism. Co-ordinated structures have also been studied
from the point of view of their interpretation, in, for example, truth-
conditional semantics, discourse representation theory and Gricean
pragmatics. However, recently research on co-ordination has turned to
questions about the relationship between their syntactic representation
and their interpretation. This can be seen as part of a more general
concern with one of the most fundamental questions in Linguistics,
namely, what is the nature of the grammar-pragmatics interface? Co-
ordination poses a particular problem for an understanding of the
grammar-pragmatics interface because it seems that in some cases there
is a discrepancy between the syntactic representation and the
communicated propositional content. The theoretical conflicts
between the various syntactic analyses that have been proposed for co-
ordinated structures and the apparent lack of agreement about which
aspects of their interpretation are due to their semantic properties create
a serious obstacle to progress in understanding the relationship between
form and interpretation. This conference aims to bring together
researchers from a variety of approaches in syntax, semantics and
pragmatics in order to promote the understanding of these issues.
FURTHER INFORMATION & REGISTRATION FORM ARE
AVAILABLE ON
www.esri.salford.ac.uk/coordination/home.htm
Or contact Mrs W. Dodgson <w.a.dodgson@salford.ac.uk>
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Robyn Carston
Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, UCL
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel 020 7419 3174
Fax 020 7383 4108
web page http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/robyn/home.htm
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