21.3500, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: 01-Sep-2010
From: Eva Csipak < ecsipak at gwdg.de >
Subject: Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any'
 

	
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From: Eva Csipak [ecsipak at gwdg.de]
Subject: Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any'

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Full Title: Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any' 

Date: 14-Jan-2011 - 15-Jan-2011
Location: Goettingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Manfred Sailer
Meeting Email: manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: http://www.negative-polarity-items.uni-
goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/BeyondAny 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2010 

Meeting Description:

Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any': Challenging Theories of NPI Licensing

University of Goettingen
January 14 and 15, 2011

Invited speakers:
Jon Gajewski
Jack Hoeksema
Utpal Lahiri
Bob Levine

Is polarity sensitivity a syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic phenomenon? 
Licensing theories in all three fields have reached a high level of 
sophistication. However, theories in the three fields compete rather than 
converge, which we take to indicate that the phenomenon has not as yet 
been fully understood. In this workshop, we propose to focus on under-
researched NPIs, under-researched licensing contexts, and to challenge 
theories by empirical methods from corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics. 
The list of open issues includes, but is not limited to, the following:

- Polarity items in non-assertive speech acts
- Polarity items with idiosyncratic licensing patterns
- Parasitic licensing
- Intervention effects
- NPIs in pycholinguistics and corpus linguistics
- Historical rise and fall of NPIs
- Patterns of use versus licensing conditions
- Verbal NPIs
- Comparison of approaches 

Call For Papers

We invite papers for 30 min. talks (plus 15 min. discussion) that pertain to 
one or more of these questions, or offer other new insights in the 
phenomenon of polarity sensitivity. Abstracts should be anonymous and at 
most 2 pages in length. Please send your abstracts electronically in pdf- or 
doc-format to manfred.sailer at phil.uni-goettingen.de and include your 
name, affiliation and the title of the abstract in the body of the email. 
Submissions will be reviewed by two reviewers.

Important dates

Deadline for submission: September 15, 2010
Notification: October 18, 2010
Workshop: January 14-15, 2011





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