Call for papers for the second conference on

                      (PREFERABLY) NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS


The conference will be hosted by the University of Paris 7 (France),
and will take place in May 28-30, 1998

There will be three one hour talks by invited speakers and the rest of
th= e talks will be contributed papers chosen by the program committee
on selection basis. Submissions of abstracts (in English or in French)
for 30-minute contributed talks (with 10 additional minutes for
discussion) o= n any topic in the semantic analysis of natural
languages, with strong preference for non-lexical semantics, are
welcome. Authors should submit = 5 copies of (so called "anonymous")
abstracts, no more than two pages (but not significantly less than 2
pages) long. Data allowing us to identify a= nd contact the author (or
authors) should be given separately.

E-mail submissions will be accepted (only when in LaTex or Word). In
this case authors shoud send a title page with authors' name, etc. in
addition to the anonymous two page abstract.

Abstract deadline: March 17, 1998.

Send abstract to:

Conference de Semantique
   c/o R. Zuber

Universite Paris 7
UFR LINGUISTIQUE
  Case 7003
2 Place Jussieu
75251 Paris Cedex 05,
France

The e-mail address to which the abstracts should be sent:
rz@ccr.jussieu.fr. This is also the e-mail address for inquiries.

The program of the conference will be completed around the 17th of
April = at which time conference information will be made
available. For organizational reasons we would like to be able to
estimate the number of submissions and possible participants well in
advance. For this reason we invite any person which would like to
submit an abstract or to attend the conference to let us know as soon
as possible (by e-mail).

Program Committee: 

R. Zuber - chair (CNRS, Paris), F. Corblin
(University of Rennes), B. Lac= a (University of Strasbourg),
D. Lacombe, (University of Paris 7), F.  Recanati (CNRS, Paris),
D. Wilson (CREA, Paris and University College, London)