Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 5

Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 5 (OASIS 5) is a specialized workshop-style conference exploring the formal and empirical boundaries between syntactic structure and semantic interpretation. The event addresses questions such as how grammatical interfaces shape the meanings we can express, how compositional semantic principles interact with lexical knowledge, and what cross-linguistic variation reveals about the architecture of the language faculty. Topics include event semantics, aspect, modality, quantification, and the syntax-semantics interface broadly construed.

OASIS brings together formal linguists, semanticists, and syntacticians who are committed to rigorously grounded, data-driven approaches to meaning. It is particularly welcoming to advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are refining theoretical accounts of complex interface phenomena. The relatively focused scope of the conference fosters deep, productive conversation that larger generalist venues rarely allow, making OASIS an important site for cumulative progress in formal linguistic theory.