Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6

Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6 (OASIS 6) is a specialized workshop exploring how formal ontological categories are constrained and shaped by their interfaces with semantic and syntactic structure in natural language. The workshop takes a cross-disciplinary perspective, drawing on formal linguistics, philosophy of language, and cognitive semantics.

Topics include the nominal-verbal distinction, mass-count ontology, event and state structure, aspect, tense, and the mapping between conceptual and grammatical categories. Formal semanticists, syntacticians, philosophers of language, and cognitive linguists working on the language-thought interface will find OASIS a deeply engaging forum. The workshop's focused scope encourages sustained discussion of foundational questions about how language structures reality and how ontological primitives are grammatically encoded.