22.1122, Confs: Semantics/France

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Subject: 22.1122, Confs: Semantics/France

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Date: 08-Mar-2011
From: René-Joseph Lavie [rjl at ehop.com]
Subject: Exemplar Semantics

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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:39:45
From: René-Joseph Lavie [rjl at ehop.com]
Subject: Exemplar Semantics

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Exemplar Semantics 

Date: 18-Mar-2011 - 18-Mar-2011 
Location: Paris - Nanterre, France 
Contact: René-Joseph Lavie 
Contact Email: rjl at ehop.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Survey recent advances in linguistics tending to show why exemplars are 
wanted in semantics and how their proponents configure them. Identify what 
is meant by 'exemplar' as far as semantics is concerned: is the concept 
univocally defined, what the different acceptations are, how they compare, 
what merits each has. 

Exemplar semantics, a one day workshop
Organizer: René-Joseph Lavie, MoDyCo, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre 
la Défense
Date: March 18, 2011 (9:00 - 18:00).
Location: Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, room G614.
The meeting is open. To facilitate the organization please state your 
intention to attend by sending a message to rjl AT ehop Dot com

Context
Exemplars have been around in psychology for thirty years.
In linguistics, exemplars are promising as an alternative base for theoretical 
linguistics, understood as that which together seeks to account for linguistic 
productivity, learnability and linguistic change: exemplars would make up for 
the limits of abstraction-based theories. Over the last fifteen years, 
exemplars have been used mainly in phonology and in morphology, a little 
in syntax. Today, their use in semantics is just emerging. Parallel to this, 
philosophers propose to circumvent the shortages of Fregean descriptivism 
with notions such as 'object file' or 'mental file'. Exemplars and mental files 
both substitute one abstract entity with a set of more concrete ones. This 
character is shared by a number of approaches that vary however in scope, 
intent, and in the way they profile the exemplars and subject them to their 
goals. So a scene is currently building up that is promising, and that is both 
unitary and diverse.

Purpose and intent
Survey recent advances in linguistics tending to show why exemplars are 
wanted in semantics and how their proponents configure them. Identify what 
is meant by 'exemplar' as far as semantics is concerned: is the concept 
univocally defined, what the different acceptations are, how they compare, 
what merits each has. Assess what stage different approaches have 
reached: programmatic/partial achievements/identified open 
issues/directions for progress.

9-9:30: Bernard Laks (Vice Président délégué à la Recherche, MoDyCo, U. 
Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense, France)
Allocution de bienvenue. Les débuts des exemplaires en linguistique.
(Opening address. Early history of exemplars in linguistics.)

9:30-10:30: William Croft (Professor of linguistics, University of New Mexico, 
Albuquerque, USA)
Exemplar semantics: cross-linguistic and language internal evidence. 

10:30-11	Break

11-12: Andrea Sansò (Professore di linguistica, Università di Insubria, 
Como, Italia)
Exemplar semantics and diachrony, applications and open questions.

12-14: Lunch

14-15: Dominique Legallois (Maître de conférences, Université de Caen, 
France)
Modélisation de l'interprétation abductive fondée sur des exemplaires.
(Exemplar-based modelling of abductive interpretation.)

15-15:30: Agathe Cormier (Doctorante, MoDyCo, U. Paris Ouest Nanterre 
la 
Défense, France)
La signification dans les Recherches Philosophiques de Wittgenstein : une 
sémantique des occurrences pour rendre compte du savoir-faire 
linguistique.
(Signification in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: a semantics of 
occurrences to account for linguistic know-how.)

15:30-16: Break

16-17: René-Joseph Lavie (Membre associé, MoDyCo, U. Paris Ouest 
Nanterre la Défense, France)
Backing exemplar-based semantics to exemplar-based syntax.

17-18: General discussion. Assessment, perspectives.

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