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The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the Tenth Symposium on Logic and Language, to be held on August 26-29, 2009 in Gárdony, Hungary.

The 2009 meeting is the tenth installment of the Symposium series, which is designed to provide a forum where logicians and linguists can meet to share and discuss ideas and issues about how linguistics and logic influence each other, with the aim of promoting a fruitful cooperation. Preceding symposia took place in Debrecen (1987), Hajdúszoboszló (1989), Révfülöp (1990), Budapest (1992), Noszvaj (1994), Budapest (1998), Pécs (2002), Debrecen (2004), and Besenyőtelek (2006).

The organizers invite papers that analyze the interpretation of all kinds of expressions in natural languages by formal means, or investigate the logical and computational properties or philosophical foundations of semantic theories.

Invited speakers:

Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University)
Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Universitaet Frankfurt).

The individual presentations are planned to last for 30 minutes.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2009
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009

Anonymous abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format (a maximum of two abstracts per person, one single-authored and one co-authored). The abstracts should be a maximum of four pages, including examples and references. The name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the author and the title of the paper should be provided in the body of the e-mail message. Submissions should be sent to: lola10@nytud.hu.

A proceedings will be published electronically on the conference homepage by the conference date. The guidelines for the submission of 8-page articles will be made available for the prospective authors by the time of the notification of acceptance.

Deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings: June 10, 2009

Organizing Committee:
Ágnes Bende-Farkas
Kinga Gárdai
Zsófia Gyarmathy
Beáta Gyuris
László Kálmán
Cecília Molnár
Márta Peredy
Károly Varasdi

Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2009
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009
Registration deadline: April 30, 2009
Deadline for submission of papers for the proceedings: June 10, 2009
LoLa10: August 26-29, 2009