SPP-misc: Announcement and Call for Papers

[Colin Allen]

Announcement and Call for Papers
Special Session: 50 years of "Syntactic Structures"
at MOL 10 UCLA, July 28 - 30
http://kracht.humnet.ucla.edu/marcus/mol10

The publication of Noam Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures" in 1957 was  
the beginning of the "generative revolution" in linguistics. It  
introduced into linguistics the rigor and formalization of the  
burgeoning field of symbolic logic.  It was a major contribution to  
the cognitive revolution. It led to the establishment of formal  
language theory in theoretical computer science.

This year's Mathematics of Language conference commemorates the 50th  
anniversary of the publication of "Syntactic Structures" with a  
special session.

We welcome submissions of papers related to the topic of the special  
session. This includes, but is not limited to, historical,  
philosophical, or methodological aspects.

Invited Speakers for the Special Session (confirmed):

Geoffrey Pullum (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Marcus Tomalin (Cambridge University)

MOL (Mathematics of Language) is a biennial conference devoted to the  
mathematical study of languages and linguistics.

Important dates:
Conference:  28-30 July
Submission:  16 March
Notification: 30 April
Early registration:  18 May
Pre-proceedings version: 15 June


"All models are wrong, but some are useful" -- George E.P. Box

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