Proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting of the - Heinrich-Heine ...

Preface
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Das Streben nach Wahrheit
also ist es, was uns überall
vom Sinn zur Bedeutung
vorzudringen treibt.
– Gottlob Frege (1892)
The Gesellschaft für Semantik, founded by the German semanticists Sebastian Löbner, Arnim
von Stechow und Thomas Ede Zimmermann in October, 1994, with the aim of improving and
intensifying scientific exchange among semanticists in Germany, has been organizing annual
conferences under the title Sinn & Bedeutung since 1996 (Tübingen 1996, Berlin 1997,
Leipzig 1998, Düsseldorf 1999, Amsterdam 2000). Originally intended to improve the
situation of linguistic semantics in Germany, the annual Sinn & Bedeutung conference has
evolved into an important meeting point for semantics researchers from all over Europe. Until
this year the papers presented at the conference had been available, if at all, only
electronically from the authors. With this volume we hope to begin a new chapter in the
evolution of Sinn & Bedeutung.
This first Sinn & Bedeutung proceedings volume contains twenty two of the thirty nine papers
presented at Sinn & Bedeutung VI, which was held on October 8-10, 2001 at the University of
Osnabrück. These papers represent a cross-section of the semantics research being carried on
in Europe. The topics range from formal foundational issues, through classical semantic
analyses, to the syntax/semantic interface and the semantics/pragmatics interfaces. We are
particularly pleased to be able to include all three papers from our special session on
semantics and cognitive science. As befits a proceedings volume, the papers collected here are
presented as they were received from the authors, with only slight formatting changes.
The conference itself was made possible by funds of the president of the University of
Osnabrück and by funds of the Osnabrück Institute of Cognitive Science. We would like to
thank the members of the program committee (Peter Bosch (chair), Paul Dekker, Regine
Eckardt, Bart Geurts, Siegfried Kanngießer, Graham Katz, Sabine Reinhard, and Ede
Zimmermann) and the members of the organizing committee (Tatjana Ahrends (nee Wujec),
Michael Franke, Graham Katz, Elisabeth Lesemann, Sabine Reinhard (chair), and Johannes
Rüter).
These proceedings are available electronically from the Gesellschaft für Semantik at
http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/gfs/
Osnabrück, August, 2002 The
editors
University of Osnabrück
Institute of Cognitive Science
D-49069 Osnabrück