VenueKobe UniversityTakigawa Memorial Hall 2F, Large Conference Room, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501
DatesNovember 25 (Wed) - 28 (Sat), 2026
ChairOsamu Sawada
Kobe University
Co-chairsDaisuke Bekki
Ochanomizu University
Koji Mineshima
Keio University

Invited Speakers

Thomas Grano
Indiana University
Daniel Lassiter
University of Edinburgh

Aim and Topics

LENLS is an annual international conference on formal linguistics (i.e., syntax, semantics and pragmatics), computational linguistics, the philosophy of language, and related fields, including but not limited to the following:

LENLS22 will be held in a hybrid format. Most presentations will take place in person at Kobe University, with the exception of a few remote talks. We will also provide a Zoom live stream for remote attendance. However, please note that the Zoom link will only be shared with registered participants.

AI Use Policy

Authors bear full responsibility for all content in their submissions, regardless of whether AI tools were used in their preparation. AI systems may not be listed as co-authors. Submissions found to contain hallucinated content (e.g., fabricated references or citations) will be desk-rejected.

At the time of submission, all authors must complete the AI Use Statement field in the EasyChair submission form. If no AI tools were used, authors may simply state: "No AI tools were used in preparing this submission." If AI tools were used, authors should specify the tool(s) and the nature of their use. The program committee will take the disclosed use into account in its evaluation.

Selected Papers

LENLS22 is held under the umbrella of The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The collection of full papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, in accordance with the contract between Springer Nature Switzerland AG and FoLLI.
LNCS

Pre-conference Event

Joint Symposium of JST CREST "Symbiotic AI Interdisciplinary System" and PRESTO "Symbiotic AI Fundamentals" 2026

Date & Time Nov. 25 (Wed), 2026, 13:30–18:00
Venue Takigawa Memorial Hall 2F, Large Conference Room, Kobe University (+ Zoom)
Language English
Registration Free of charge; separate registration required (deadline: Nov. 20 (Fri), 2026, 12:00 (JST))

This symposium is held as a pre-conference event of LENLS22 at the same venue. Participation in this event does not require LENLS22 registration, and individuals who are not participating in LENLS22 are also welcome. Whether online or in person, please register separately via the official page below. On-site registration closes when the capacity is reached.

Official Page & Registration

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline Sep. 2, 2026 (AoE, extended)
Notification of acceptance Oct. 1, 2026 (AoE)
Deadline for early registration Oct. 31, 2026 (AoE)
Deadline for the extended abstract Nov. 13, 2026 (AoE)
Deadline for online registration Nov. 16, 2026 (AoE)
Pre-conference Event (JST CREST-PRESTO Joint Symposium) Nov. 25, 2026
LENLS22 Nov. 26-28, 2026
Deadline for full papers Dec. 11, 2026 (AoE)

Registration

The registration is available via the link below.

Register Here

The registration fee will be collected on-site at the reception desk (cash only). The zoom link will be shared only among the registered participants. The deadline for the registration with the conference dinner is October 31, 2026 (AoE). The deadline for the registration without the conference dinner is November 16, 2026 (AoE).

Registration fee for in-person participation: 5,000 yen
Registration fee for online participation: free of charge
Conference dinner fee: 5,000 yen

Program (tentative)

Pre-conference Event: November 25 (Wed)
13:30-18:00
JST CREST-PRESTO Joint Symposium (separate registration)
1st Day: November 26 (Thu)
9:50-10:00
Opening remark
10:00-11:30
Anaphora and dynamic semanticsChair: Daisuke Bekki
  • Patrick Elliott and Alexandros Kalomoiros
    “Complement subordination”
  • Oleg Kiselyov
    “From Dependent Anaphora to Paycheck Pronouns in Static Orthodox First-Order Logic”
  • Hajime Mori and Soichiro Kinoshita
    “A CDRT Analysis of the Indefinite Interpretation of Russian Pronouns as Predicate Anaphora”
13:30-15:00
Social meaning and perspectiveChair: Yoshiki Mori
  • Elin McCready
    “Formalizing Perspectives”
  • Elin McCready and Grégoire Winterstein
    “Just Asking Questions?”
  • Samuel Laperle
    “French gym bros are bad roommates: an attempt to characterize the semantics of personae”
15:30-17:00
Logic and proof theoryChair: Koji Mineshima
  • Hinari Daido and Daisuke Bekki
    “Disjunctive Anaphora in Dependent Type Semantics and its Automated Theorem Prover”
  • Shunsuke Yatabe
    “Trinity”
  • Kohei Kishida
    “Aristotle’s Substructural Sequent Calculus (Extended Abstract)”
17:30-18:30
Invited TalkChair: Elin McCready
  • InvitedThomas Grano
    “TBA”
2nd Day: November 27 (Fri)
10:00-11:30
Modality and pragmatics in Japanese and beyondChair: Shinya Okano
  • Taro Hiraoka
    “Monotonic and non-monotonic confirmation-seeking: A scoreboard analysis of daroo? and daroo-ne? in Japanese”
  • Yu Izumi
    “A Minimal Participant-Structure Semantics for Japanese Affixal Designation Terms”
  • Christopher Davis, Tim Jantarungsee and Yasutada Sudo
    “How to Build a Modal: A Semantic Typology of Conditional Evaluative Constructions”
13:30-15:00
Experimental and computational approachesChair: Grégoire Winterstein
  • Yixuan Yan
    “Dissociating Disjunctive Meaning from Clause-type Restrictions: Evidence from Child Mandarin”
  • Kotomi Fujita, Daniel Plesniak, Haruka Fukushima and Daisuke Bekki
    “Analysis and Experimental Verification of Weak Crossover in the Double Object and Oblique Dative Constructions”
  • Lisa Bylinina
    “Augustinian Language Learning: What Ostensive Definition Can and Cannot Teach a Small Language Model”
15:30-17:00
Expressives and evaluativityChair: Yu Izumi
  • Linmin Zhang
    “What-exclamatives, indescribability, and extremeness”
  • Osamu Sawada
    “Two types of rhetorical wh-expressives in Japanese”
  • Frank Sode
    “The Use Conditions of Melioratives and Tense/Mood-Marking”
17:30-18:30
Quantification and genericityChair: Patrick Elliott
  • Emil Eva Rosina, Michaela Hulmanová and Marcin Wągiel
    “Events are times”
  • Satoru Suzuki
    “Intuitionistic-Bayesian Semantics of Generics Based on Belief Contraction”
19:30-
Conference dinner
3rd Day: November 28 (Sat)
10:00-11:30
Vagueness and degreesChair: Kenta Mizutani
  • Ka-Fat Chow
    “A Boolean Many-Valued Treatment of Vague Quantified Statements”
  • Linmin Zhang and Hanxi Zheng
    “Estimating the positive threshold of gradable adjectives with implicit comparison”
  • Yi-Hsun Chen
    “A degree-semantic analysis of possessive measure phrases”
13:30-15:00
Nominals, kinds and massChair: Naoya Fujikawa
  • Yi-Hsun Chen and Ryan Smith
    “Two types of nominal similatives: the case of Mandarin Chinese”
  • Ruoying Zhao, Abdullah Almuhaysh, Victoria Noble, Luca Molinari and Marcin Wągiel
    “What a mass! Counting Hasawi Arabic mass nouns without coercion”
  • Timothée Bernard and Philippe de Groote
    “Two ways to be a singer: eventive and dispositional readings in perspective semantics”
15:30-17:00
Incrementality and scalar particlesChair: Eri Tanaka
  • Yu-Lun Huang and I-Ta Chris Hsieh
    “On the incremental use of again: a view from Mandarin”
  • Chungmin Lee and Dongsik Lim
    “Incrementality and even-like particles in Korean”
  • Ruoying Zhao and Moreno Mitrovic
    “Almost at-issue negative inference licenses expletive negation and more”
17:30-18:30
Invited TalkChair: Osamu Sawada
  • InvitedDaniel Lassiter
    “TBA”
18:30-18:40
Closing remark

Sponsors

LENLS is organized by an alliance of the following sponsors.

Conference Code of Conduct

All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to adhere to the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everyone.

The Quick Version

The organizers are dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, or religion (or lack thereof). We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery are not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks, workshops, parties, and social media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of the organisers.

The Less Quick Version

Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, and religion (or lack thereof), as well as sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.

Participants asked to stop harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.

If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the conference organisers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference without a refund.

If you experience harassment, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the following conference staff members immediately: Elin McCready and Daisuke Bekki

The conference staff will be happy to help participants contact hotel/venue security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. We value your attendance.

We expect participants to follow these rules at conference and workshop venues as well as conference-related social events.

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Contact

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