26.2762, Calls: Semantics/Spain

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Subject: 26.2762, Calls: Semantics/Spain

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:24:11
From: Paula Menendez Benito [paula.menendez at upf.edu]
Subject: Modality Across Categories

 
Full Title: Modality Across Categories 

Date: 05-Nov-2015 - 06-Nov-2015
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Paula Menendez-Benito
Meeting Email: modalityupf at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/modalityacrosscategories/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2015 

Meeting Description:

Markers of modal displacement in natural language are used to introduce, discuss, assess and manipulate possible scenarios. Until relatively recently, work on the semantics of modality had concentrated on the verbal domain, and in particular on modal auxiliaries. However, over the last years, there has been an increased interest in the expression of modality across categories. Some recent developments that illustrate that interest are: 

- A body of research on modal markers at the DP level has emerged, including work on modified numerals like at least n or at most n (see, e.g., Büring 2008; Geurts and Nouwen 2007; Nouwen 2010; Schwarz 2011; Coppock and Brochhagen 2013), free relatives of the whatever-type (for instance, Rawlins 2008, forthcoming; Dayal 1997; von Fintel 2000; Condoravdi 2005, forthcoming; Tredinnick 2005; Heller and Wolter 2011), too constructions (Heim 2000; Meier 2003; Hacquard 2000), infinitival relative clauses as in the man to fix the sink (Bhatt 1999; Hackl and Nissenbaum 2012), modal adjectives (e.g., Larson 2000; Schwarz 2006; Abusch and Rooth 1997; Romero 2010), adnominal conditionals as in the price if you pay now (Lasersohn 1996; Frana forthcoming), and modal indefinites (e.g., Aloni and Port 2010; Chierchia 2013; Fălăuş 2009, 2014, Giannakidou and Quer 2013; Alonso-Ovalle and Menéndez-Benito 2008, 2010, 2011, among many others).
- There is a growing line of research that explores  connections between modal auxiliaries and adjectives, bearing on the issue of how gradability is expressed in the modal domain (see, e.g., Lassiter 2011; Klecha 2014; Portner and Rubinstein 2014).
- Very recently, some work (Hacquard 2013, forthcoming) has started to investigate the source of the differences between grammatical modal markers (e.g., modal auxiliaries) and lexical modal markers (e.g., verbs like seem or adjectives like likely). Relevant to this issue is recent research on verbs – like want or try— that are at the border between attitude verbs and modals (see, among others, Rubinstein 2012; Grano 2012; Sharvit 2003). 

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for novel work on modality that bears on the issue of how different categories shape modal contents and why.  We especially encourage submissions that provide insights arising from languages that are underrepresented in the previous literature.

Invited Speakers: 

Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland)
Angelika Kratzer (University Massachusetts, Amherst)
Aynat Rubinstein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen)

This workshop is funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union (Marie Curie Intra-European Career Development Grant, PIEF-GA-2013-622311). Additional support comes from the Translation and Language Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University.

Call for Papers:

We are pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the workshop “Modality Across Categories”, which will take place at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), on  November 5 and 6, 2015. 

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts must be anonymous, in pdf format, and they are not to exceed two pages in 12 point font, and with margins of 1 inch/2.5 cm on all sides. Please submit your abstract no later than July 15, 2015. 

The link for abstract submission is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mac2015

Conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/modalityacrosscategories/




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