Workshop at the ESSLLI 2002 Summer School in Trento
INTENSIONALITY
Formal Theories and Natural Language Application
Aug 12 - 16, 2002
The workshop is held as part of the 14th
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information in
Trento, Italy, in the section Language & Logic
Background
Current linguistic theories are still working with semantic systems
based on possible worlds. It is well-known that possible worlds
semantics faces serious problems concerning propositional attitudes,
intensional adverbs and adjectives, modals and conditionals and the
progressive. Furthermore this classical approach to semantics
abstracts away from all computational aspects of meaning. Some new
theories of intensionality have been developed that differ from
possible worlds semantics exactly with respect to this issue. For
example Y. Moschovakis tries to model Frege's notion of sense and
denotation in terms of algorithms and values of algorithms.
Workshop Aims
- The first aim of the workshop is to illuminate to what extent modern
accounts of intensional phenomena provide a better way to understand
the notion of natural language meaning.
- The second aim is to initiate an interdisciplinary discussion of
new approaches to semantics from both logical and empirical
perspectives.
- A further aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for young
researchers and PhD students to present their work.
Speakers
- Ralph Albrecht, Tübingen: Quantifying in on an Intension as
Algorithms Approach
- C. Anthony Anderson, Santa Barbara: The Theory of Possible
Languages: A New Foundation for Intensional Logic
- Michael Arndt, Tübingen: Quantifying in on an Intension as
Algorithms Approach
- Jens Brage, Stockholm: A Natural Interpretation of Classical Proofs
- Hans Kamp, Stuttgart: Intentions versus Intensions
- Uwe Mönnich, Tübingen: Behavioural equivalence of
non-context free processors
- Yiannis Moschovakis, Los Angeles/Athens: A calculus
of meanings and synonymies
- Nikolaj Oldager, Lyngby: An Intensional Concept Language
- Orin Percus, Milano/Tübingen: The syntax of
attitude reports and the semantics of pronouns
- Thomas Ede Zimmermann, Frankfurt: TBA
- Sandro Zucchi, Milano: Tense, Time, and Adverbs in Italian Sign Language
Preliminarly Program
- Mo, 17.00-18.30: Kamp; Moschovakis
- Tu, 17.00-18.30: Moennich; Brage
- We, 17.00-18.30: Percus; Zucchi
- Th, 17.00-18.30: Albrecht/Arndt; Oldager
- Fr, 17.00-18.30: Anderson; Zimmermann
Last update: 27.7.2002
Registration
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI 2002.
Organziers
Fritz Hamm
SfS, Universität Tübingen
Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tübingen
Germany
friedrich.hamm@uni-tuebingen.de
Reinhard Kahle
DI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre
P-2825-114 Caparica
Portugal
kahle@di.fct.unl.pt
Reinhard Kahle, 29.07.02