26.2541, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-2541. Tue May 19 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.2541, Calls: Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:02:38
From: Hedde Zeijlstra [hzeijls at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Workshop on Negation

Full Title: Workshop on Negation 
Short Title: Gö-Neg 2015 

Date: 18-Sep-2015 - 19-Sep-2015
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Hedde Zeijlstra
Meeting Email: hzeijls at uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/september-14th---17th-göttingen-spirit-summer-school-on-negation/511976.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2015 

Meeting Description:

A universal property of natural language is that every language is able to express negation. Every language has some device at its disposal to reverse the truth-value of affirmative sentences. However, languages may differ to quite a large extent as to how they express this negation. Not only do languages vary with respect to the position of negative elements, the form of negative elements and the interpretation of sentences that consist of multiple negative elements are also subject to broad cross-linguistic variation. The study of the behaviour of sentential negation has therefore strongly been guided by the question as to what determines the possible ways that sentential negation can manifest itself. This question, however, has not only strong repercussions for the study to the syntax and semantics of negation and related phenomena, such as negative and positive polarity phenomena, but also for the investigation of the way how negation is expressed is acquired by children, how it 
 changes over time, and how it is expressed on non-spoken languages.

In order to address all these questions, LinG - Linguistics in Göttingen hosts a 2-day international workshop on negation in natural language. This workshop will follow up on a four-day summer school for postdocs and PhD students working on or interested in negation. There will be fine invited speakers, a poster session and a number of slots reserved of talks based on submitted abstracts.

Invited speakers:

- Stephen Crain (Melbourne)
- Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford)
- Roland Pfau (Amsterdam)
- Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt)
- Rosalind Thornton (Melbourne)

Call for Papers:

Scholars are invited to submit an abstract on one of the following topics (though this list is not exhaustive):

- Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of negative markers
- Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of negative polarity items
- Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of positive polarity items
- Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of negative concord
- Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of negative quantifiers (and split scope phenomena)
- Negation and language change
- Acquisition of negation, polarity and negative concord 
- Negation in sign language

Abstracts can be submitted to the workshop's EasyChair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gneg2015). The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2015. All usual criteria to abstract submissions apply.

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