meaning change meaning variation call papers meaning change meaning variation university konstanz germany february 2426 1999 invited speakers nicholas asher austin usa johannes dlling leipzig germany peter gaerdenfors lund sweden dirk geeraerts leuven belgien ulrike haas spohn konstanz germany ekkehart knig berlin germany brigitte nerlich nottingham uk pleased announce workshop meaning change meaning variation part 21st annual meeting german society linguistics dgfs konstanz germany http dgfs99 unikonstanz de workshop meaning change meaning variation aims bringing together researchers formal semantics cognitive semantics historical linguistics analytical philosophy order discuss questions meaning change meaning variation historical linguists developed impressing inventories examples meaning changes documented etymological lexica cognitive semanticists often offer richer notions meaning one traditionally used formal semantics notions seem better fit integrate creative dimension hand people working formal semantic framework face challenge posed completely static picture diachronic meaning change changes think instances common confusion error contrary one evidence language seen ever evolving object adapting ever changing view real world specific areas inquiry include limited following semiproductive lexical processes metonymy polysemy etc interaction psychological historical linguistic facts development new language stages case studies diachronic meaning change grammaticalization meaning change polysemy semantic fields formal treatments metaphor papers german english invited mentioned fields papers address semantic change semantic variation one aspect papers indicate inherent interest perspective disciplines intend bridge approaches different subfields preferred deadline receipt abstracts august 15 1998 please send onepage abstract preferably email regine eckardt klaus von heusinger fg sprachwissenschaft fach 185 d78457 konstanz germany email regine eckardt klaus heusinger unikonstanz de also happy answer questions might arise