ASL/LSA Conference on Linguistics and Logic to be held July 10-12, 1987 at Stanford University

逻辑在20世纪的发展表现出对逻辑作为数学的一个专门分支的关注。由于自然语言表现出许多数学形式主义所不具备的特征，并且无法用熟悉的逻辑技术进行分析，因此许多逻辑学家往往忽视了解释人类语言和交流的目标。然而，一直以来，逻辑中也有一股强烈的逆流，致力于这些更大的利益。近年来，由于人工智能领域对自然语言和交流理论的需求，自然语言的挑战对逻辑学家来说似乎更加紧迫。在语言学内部也是如此，几乎从生成语法开始，人们就感到需要一个健壮的语义成分。由于现代语法强调任意大小和复杂性的句法单位理论，它需要一种意义理论来适应这种复杂性。基于逻辑理论的方法在这一领域占主导地位。由于对自然语言的应用以许多有趣的方式使符号逻辑紧张，语言学家一般不能应用“现成的”逻辑理论；这一过程要求创造性地适应和发展逻辑材料。逻辑学和语言学的许多跨学科工作都致力于解决这些问题。由于语言学和逻辑学是独立的、发展良好的学科，有许多分支专业，到目前为止，已经发生的相对非正式的跨越学科界限的交流很可能留下了许多科学进步的机会，这些机会只有通过将这两个领域的专家聚集在一起参加像这里提议的会议才能实现。

Abstract Narrative The development of logic in the twentieth century has exhibited a preoccupation with logic as a specialized branch of mathematics. Since natural languages exhibit many features that are foreign to mathematical formalisms and that resist analysis by familiar logical techniques, many logicians have tended to neglect the goal of accounting for human languages and communication. All along, however, there has also been a strong countercurrent within logic devoted to these larger interests. In recent years, the challenges of natural language have seemed more urgent to logicians because of the need in artificial intelligence for theories of natural language and communication. Within linguistics as well, the need for a robust semantic component has been felt almost since the beginning of genera- tive grammar. Since modern syntax stresses the theory of syn- tactic units of arbitrary size and complexity, it requires a theory of meaning that will serve to accommodate this sort of complexity. Approaches based on logical theory have come to predominate in this area. Since applications to natural language strain symbolic logic in many interesting ways, linguists cannot in general apply logical theories "off the shelf"; the process calls for creative adaptation and develop- ment of logical material. Much of the interdisciplinary work in logic and linguistics is devoted to such problems. Since linguistics and logic are separate, well-developed disciplines with many subspecialties, it is likely that the relatively informal communication across disciplinary boun- daries that has taken place so far has left unexploited many opportunities for scientific advances that can only take place by bringing together specialists from the two fields in meetings such as the one proposed here.