C A L L  F O R   P A P E R S

MAKING SENSE
From Lexeme to Discourse

Department of English
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
November 6-8, 2000

A conference in honour of Prof. Dr. Werner Abraham
on the occasion of his retirement

Invited Speakers:
        John Ole ASKEDAL, University in Oslo, Norway
        Anthony P. COWIE, hon. reader lexicography, School of English,
          Leeds University, U.K.
        David DOWTY, Ohio State University, USA
        Veronika EHRICH, University of  Tuebingen, Germany
        Elly VAN GELDEREN, Arizona State University, USA
        Susan OLSEN, University of Leipzig, Germany
        
The conference is designed to address how lexical meaning, sentential
meaning and discourse meaning affect the process of interpretation of
texts. It brings the synchronic and diachronic issues of lexicography
together with those of natural language semantics, pragmatics of
discourse  studies and psycholinguistic and computational aspects of
human information processing. A common focus is on the role of context in
interpretation at all levels. Prior to the conference Dr. Rosamund Moon
(University of Birmingham, UK) will give a tutorial entitled From Corpus
to Dictionary.

Authors are invited to submit a one page printed or faxed abstract by
June 15th, 2000. Fourteen contributed papers will be selected for
presentation by the programme committee. Other authors of submitted
abstracts may be invited to present their work in the poster session
during the conference.
Publication of invited and contributed papers is anticipated.

Important Dates:
        Abstract deadline                               June 15, 2000
        Programme announcement                          September 1, 2000
        Conference                                      November 6-8, 2000


Programme Committee:
Alice ter Meulen,  Tette Hofstra,  Geart van der Meer,  Karin Olsen

Inquiries:        cet@let.rug.nl, phone (31) (050) 363-5850,
                                  fax (31) (050) 363-5821
Address:          Making Sense, Department of English, University of Groningen,
                  PO Box 716, NL-9700 AS Groningen,  The Netherlands.