Preface Volume 53

This volume contains the Proceedings of the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conference on Formal Grammar and the seventh on Mathematics of Language. The meeting was held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information in August 2001.FGMOL'01 provided a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest included •formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology;•model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics;•constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar;•foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar;•mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks;•theories and models of natural language processing and generation;•parsing theory; and•statistical and quantitative models of language.The meeting was a lively one. It featured the 23 papers in this ENTCS volume. It also had invited addresses by Jaako Hintikka (Boston University) and Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania). There was a special symposium on Model Theoretic Syntax given by Patrick Blackburn (INRIA), Uwe Mönnich (Tübingen), Geoffrey Pullum (UC Santa Cruz), and James Rogers (Earlham). Finally, there was an ESSLLI workshop on Mathematics of Language held just after FGMOL'01.We are grateful to the organizers of ESSLLI for their encouragement of FGMOL, and also for supporting the workshop. We are also pleased to acknowledge Michael Mislove's help in preparing the files for the volume.The papers in this volume were reviewed by the following program committee: Anne Abeillé(Paris)Patrick Blackburn(INRIA)Gosse Bouma(Groningen)Mary Dalrymple(Xerox Parc)Elisabet Engdahl(Gotenborg)Nissim Francez(Haifa)Thilo Goetz(IBM)David Johnson(IBM)Mark Johnson(Brown)Gerhard Jäger(Utrecht)Aravind Joshi(Penn)Ruth Kempson(London)Geert-Jan Kruijff(Prague)Alain Lecomte(LORIA)Uwe Mönnich(Tübingen)Michael Moortgat(Utrecht)Richard Oehrle(Ashford)Mark-Jan Nederhof(Groningen)Owen Rambow(Cogentex)James Rogers(Earlham)Mark Steedman(Edinburgh)We are grateful to this committee for all of their help with the meeting. We also thank Geert-Jan Kruijff, the third member of our FGMOL Organizing Committee for all of his advice and hard work on the meeting. January 1, 2004Larry Moss and Dick Oehrle