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The topic of my PhD is logical and pragmatic competence in natural language reasoning. To present
results of my EEG experiment on
processing of scalar implicatures I went to
the conference
Sinn und
Bedeutung 18
in Vitoria
-
Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain;
10
-
13 September 2013)
which is an annual
meeting of the
Gesellschaft für Semantik. The conference
addresses issues devoted to natural language
semantics, pragmatics, the syntax
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semantics interface, psycholinguistic aspects of meaning, or
philosophy of language. It is probably the most important
semantic conference in Europe.
It is worth to
mention that this year's edition of
Sinn und Bedeutung
was
preceded
by one-day workshop
From
Grammar to Meaning: the Spontaneous Logicality of Language
(09.09.2013) in honor of Gennaro
Chierchia
on the occasion of his birthday. I came one day earlier especially to participate in
this
workshop.
The conference participation was a great experience for me.
I was able to discuss my results
with many other linguists and attend interesting talks and lectures given by international experts. |