Parallel Session on Designated Topic 7: Lexical Semantics

18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL 18), July 21-26, 2008 at Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

There will be a parallel session on lexical semantics at the 18^th International Congress of Linguists (CIL18). For more information on the congress visit the website http://www.cil18.org.

Description

Due to progress in determining, understanding, modelling and representing lexical meaning, as well as to progress in corpus linguistics, lexical semantics has grown into a vivid field of research world-wide. The parallel session provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of results and approaches from the whole range of scientific perspectives in the field.

Proposals are invited for thirty minute papers (20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes discussion), in either English or French, on any topic related to lexical meaning, including:

• models of lexical meaning
• range and variations of lexical meanings
  • polysemy
  • historical lexical semantics
  • politeness and social meaning
  • subjectivity and expressive meaning
  • interjections and sound symbolism
• lexical meaning and grammar
  • lexical meanings and word classes
  • systematic alternations of lexical meanings
• decomposition of lexical meanings
  • lexical primes
  • formal models of decomposition
  • lexical meanings and frames
• lexical meaning and cognition
  • semantic knowledge vs. world knowledge
  • lexical meaning and categorization
  • embodiment of lexical meanings
  • polysemy
• computational representation of lexical meaning
  • models of lexical meaning
  • networks of lexical meanings
  • retrieval of lexical meanings form corpora
• lexical meaning cross-linguistically
  • lexical meaning and culture
  • lexical meaning and translation
• lexical meaning of particular word classes
  • noun meanings
  • verb meanings
  • adjective meanings

Important dates

? August  31, 2007: Deadline for submitting the abstract.

? November 30, 2007: Notification of acceptance.

Form and submission of abstracts

An English of French abstract (.pdf or .doc file) should be 800 to 1000 words long, including data and references.

The abstract starts with the title of the paper, followed by the description of the talk. Please, do not include the author's name(s) in the abstract, nor in the name of the file.

Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail, the abstract itself as an attachment not included in the message itself.

Make sure you list the following data in the email (for each author):

Please, send the abstract and the author's information to both [email protected] and [email protected].