25.3586, Confs: Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 25.3586, Confs: Syntax, Semantics, Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:37:20
From: Pritty Patel-Grosz [pritty at alum.mit.edu]
Subject: Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

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Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface 

Date: 07-Nov-2014 - 09-Nov-2014 
Location: Tuebingen, Germany 
Contact: Pritty Patel-Grosz 
Contact Email: pritty.patel-grosz at uni-tuebingen.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Embedded environments (e.g. clausal complements of attitude predicates) provide a window into the nature of pronouns: pronouns in such environments not only exhibit classic distinctions, such as that between bound and referential pronouns; they also participate in a broader range of phenomena, e.g. a distinction between de se and de re readings may emerge if they refer to the attitude holder. This workshop aims at investigating pronouns in such environments in order to shed new light on interactions between (i.) their syntactic properties (e.g. personal vs. clitic vs. null vs. demonstrative pronouns) and (ii.) their semantic properties (e.g. 'de se' pronouns vs. syntactically bound 'de re' pronouns vs. accidentally coreferring 'de re' pronouns). The goal of this workshop is to bring together recent advances on the behavior of pronouns in embedded contexts and how it bears on the correct analysis of pronominal elements.

Invited Speakers:

Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst)
Hazel Pearson (ZAS Berlin)
Orin Percus (Université de Nantes)
Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University)
Yael Sharvit (UCLA)

Commentators for Invited Talks:

Sigrid Beck (University of Tübingen)
Regine Eckardt (University of Göttingen)
Natasha Korotkova (UCLA)
Thomas Weskott (University of Göttingen)
Igor Yanovich (University of Tübingen)

The workshop will be accompanied by a special discussion session led by the main organisers. In the current syntactic and semantic literature, it is a controversial question whether a unified treatment can be given for certain subsets of words that fall into the traditional category 'pronoun' (e.g. the subset of personal pronouns). The aim of this special session is to engage in a general discussion on possible research directions that emerge from investigating the behavior of pronouns in embedded contexts.

Special Session:

On the (Non-)Uniformity of Pronouns
Patrick Grosz & Pritty Patel Grosz (University of Tübingen)
Sarah Zobel (University of Tübingen)
Commentary: Cornelia Ebert (University of Stuttgart)

Sponsors:

The organisers thank the Daimler und Benz Stiftung for funding this workshop.

Organisational Committee:

Patrick Grosz (University of Tuebingen)
Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Tuebingen/SFB 833)
Sarah Zobel (University of Tuebingen) 

Program:

Conference title: Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Conference Website: http://pronouns2014.wordpress.com/

Friday, 7 November 2014

12:30
Opening remarks (Patrick Grosz)

12:45
Invited talk: Hazel Pearson (ZAS Berlin)
Commentator: Thomas Weskott (University of Göttingen)

14:00 Coffee break

14:20
Isabelle Charnavel & Chrissy Zlogar (Harvard University)
''Exempt Anaphors and Logophoricity in English''

15:00
Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas, Austin)
''Reflexive Thoughts, Embedded and Unembedded''

15:40
Pavel Koval (Moscow State University)
''Indexical Shifting in Balkar''

16:20 Coffee break

16:40
Invited talk: Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst)
Commentator: Sigrid Beck (University of Tübingen)

19:00
Conference Dinner

Saturday, 8 November 2014

10:00
Invited talk: Orin Percus (Nantes)
Commentator: Natasha Korotkova (UCLA)

11:15 Coffee break

11:35
Thomas Grano & Howard Lasnik (Uni. Indiana & Maryland)
''How to neutralize a finite clause boundary: Phase theory and the grammar of bound pronouns''

12:15
Daniel Tiskin (Saint Petersburg State University)
''Intentional Identity and Quantification Over Assignments''

12:55 Lunch

14:25
Alexander Podobryaev (Moscow Higher School of Economics)
''On the interpretability of person in dream reports''

15:05
Idan Landau (Ben Gurion)
''Direct Variable Binding in Obligatory Control''

15:45 Coffee break

16:05
Special session: On the non-uniformity of pronouns
Sarah Zobel (University of Tübingen)
Patrick Grosz & Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Tübingen)
Commentator: Cornelia Ebert (University of Stuttgart)
Moderator: Saskia Ottschofski (University of Tübingen)

18:05 Coffee break

18:25
Invited talk: Philippe Schlenker (ENS, CNRS, NYU)
Commentator: Igor Yanovich (University of Tübingen)

Sunday, 9 November 2014

9:15
Stefan Hinterwimmer & Peter Bosch
(University of Cologne / University of Osnabrück)
''Demonstrative Pronouns and Perspective''

9:55
Lisa Bylinina, Yasutada Sudo & Eric McCready
(Meertens Instituut / UCL / Aoyama Gakuin University)
''The landscape of perspective shifting''

10:35 Coffee break

10:55
Philip Shushurin (Moscow State University)
''Two types of null pronouns in Russian embedded clauses''

11:35
Elsi Kaiser (USC)
''Exploring pronoun choices in Finnish reported speech and free indirect discourse''

12:15 Coffee break

12:35
Invited talk: Yael Sharvit (UCLA)
Commentator: Regine Eckardt (University of Göttingen)

13:50
Closing Remarks (Sarah Zobel)

Alternate Talks:

Peter Herbeck (University of Salzburg)
''Deriving null, strong and emphatic pronouns at the phase edges''

Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart)
''Covert variables and theta-induced binding''

There is no fee for this event; if you would like to attend this conference, please register at:
http://pronouns2014.wordpress.com/register/

Regular updates will be posted on the conference website: 
http://pronouns2014.wordpress.com/

Sponsors:

The organisers thank the Daimler und Benz Stiftung for funding this workshop.

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