19.453, Confs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Semantics/South Korea

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Subject: 19.453, Confs: Cognitive Science, Pragmatics, Semantics/South Korea

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Date: 06-Feb-2008
From: Chungmin Lee < clee at snu.ac.kr >
Subject: Workshop on Contrastiveness and/or Scalar Implicatures

 

	
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Workshop on Contrastiveness and/or Scalar Implicatures 
Short Title: C and/or SI (CIL18) 

Date: 21-Jul-2008 - 26-Jul-2008 
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact: Chungmin Lee 
Contact Email: clee at snu.ac.kr 
Meeting URL: http://www.cil18.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

It is fairly clear by now that meaning is regarded as representing update
potential rather than mere truth conditions, leading to a dynamic perspective on
semantics and/or pragmatics. Topic - Focus information structure becomes more
complex because of discourse-connected, largely quantificational,
contrastiveness; sets of alternatives are involved in Contrastive Topic and
Contrastive Focus. Contrastiveness and the range of alternatives must be further
explored. 

At the same time, sets of alternatives are required in the computation of scalar
implicatures. What would be the range of relevant or comparable alternatives?
Can Gricean, neo-Gricean, relevance-theoretic or other 'relevance'-oriented
approaches explain it? Utterances with Contrastive Topic generate scalar
implicatures. How do other utterances generate scalar implicatures? Is the
exhaustivity operator exh good enough? What would be an adequate representation
- pragmatic, semantic or syntactic? How can a game-theoretic approach serve as a
new model? What other scales work except Horn's entailment scales?    

We need a forum to discuss and resolve these cutting-edge issues. 

CIL18  Korea University, Seoul, Korea, July 21-26, 2008
 
Workshop on Contrastiveness in Information Structure and/or Scalar Implicatures

Invited Speakers

1. Laurence Horn (Yale): Almost et al.:  Scalar Adverbs Revisited              
      

2. Manfred Krifka (Berlin-Humboldt):  At most / at least as upper / lower bound
operators          

3. Robert van Rooy (Amsterdam): Topic, Focus and Exhaustivity  

4.. Arthur Merin (Stuttgart): Relevance, Entailment, and Speech Acts in
Pragmatic Scale Construction        

5. Daniel Buring (UCLA): Alternatives and Contrast in Topic and Focus 

6. Enric Vallduvi (Pompeu Fabra):   TBA           

 Selected Speakers
 
1. Leah R. Paltiel-Gedyalovich and Jeannette Schaeffer (Ben-Gurion U of the
Negev): Scales and non-scales in (Hebrew) child language gedalyov at bgu.ac.il and
jschaef at bgu.ac.il

2. Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea (U Stuttgart): Grammatical and contextual
alternatives for narrow focus Klaus.vonHeusinger at ling.uni-stuttgart.de and 
edgar.onea at ling.uni-stuttgart.de   

3. Satoshi Tomioka (U of Delaware): A scope theory of Contrastive topics:
Japanese and beyond Contrastive  stomioka at UDel.Edu 

4. Yoonhee Choi and Chungmin Lee (Seoul Nat'l U): A New type of NPI licensing
context: Evidence from French Subjunctive and NE expletive 
younichan at hotmail.com and clee at snu.ac.kr

5. Mingya Liu and Jan-Phillip Soehn (U Tuebingen) Negative      implicatum,
positive implicatum mingya.liu at uni-tuebingen.de, jp.soehn at uni-tuebingen.de  

6. Nausica Pouscoulous and Bart Geurts (Radboud U Nijmegen): Experimental
evidence against local implicatures nausicaa.pouscoulous at gmail.com  and 
bart.geurts at phil.ru.nl

7. Valeria Molnar (Lunds U): On the discourse-syntax interface in second
language acquisition - CONTRAST in the left periphery Valeria.Molanar at tyska.lu.se  

8. Svetlana McCoy-Rusanova (Rutgers U): Scalar implicatures, presuppositions,
and discourse particles: Colloquial Russian -to, ?e, and ved' in Combination 
smccoy at rci.rutgers.edu 

9. Uli Sauerland (ZAS, Berlin): Embedding and the Implicature-Speech Act
Connection  uli at alum.mit.edu   

10. Jinyoung Choi (Upenn): Domain-widening, scalar implicatures
choi3 at babel.ling.upenn.edu <choi3 at babel.ling.upenn.edu>

11. Arjen Zondervan (U of Utrecht): Effects of question under discussion and
focus on scalar implicatures arjen.zondervan at let.uu.nl  

12. Beata Gyuris (Hungarian Academy of Science): The interpretation of
''contrastive''-marking particle in Hungarian ''Beata Gyuris'' <gyuris at nytud.hu> 

13. Chidori Nakamura (Iwate U) Focus particle -mo and many-few implicaturees  
chidori at iwate-u.ac.jp 

14. Jae-Il Yeom (Hongik U): The interpretation of numerals jiyeom at hongik.ac.kr  

15. Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto U of Education): Partition semantics and
pragmatics of contrastive topic  yabuchan at naruto-u.ac.jp
 
Organizers
Ferenc Kiefer and Chungmin Lee






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