26.4271, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

Tue Sep 29 22:35:57 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-4271. Tue Sep 29 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.4271, Calls: Morphology, Phonology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:35:48
From: Hedde Zeijlstra [hzeijls at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: GLOW39 - Workshop on Phonological and Syntactic Representation of Speech Acts

Full Title: GLOW39 - Workshop on Phonological and Syntactic Representation of Speech Acts 

Date: 08-Apr-2016 - 08-Apr-2016
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Guido Mensching
Meeting Email: glow2016 at uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/glow-2016---39th-generative-linguistics-in-the-old-world/510338.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims to bring together linguists investigating speech acts or illocutionary acts, such as assertions, questions, and orders (for a definition of speech acts, see Bierwisch 1980; Sadock & Zwicky 1985; Recanati 1987; Krifka 2014). The workshop is particularly interested in the relations among speech acts as well as their syntactic and phonological encodings. Do different speech acts show specific phonological and/or syntactic patterns? As to the phonological side, one important topic is the intonation contour of speech acts (cf. D'Imperio et al. 2002; Gili-Fivela 2013; Vanrell et al. 2013; Truckenbrodt 2004, 2015). What speech act-specific intonation contours do different languages exhibit, and how is the variation to be understood? How do phonological features contribute to the perception and interpretation of speech acts?

Invited Speakers:

Haegeman, Liliane (Ghent University)
Miyagawa, Shigeru (MIT)
Prieto Vives, Pilar (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

See the submission page of the GLOW 39 website for the specific details.

Call for Papers:

The workshop will address topics such as the following: syntactic encodings of speech acts (negative imperatives, clause-type features, etc.), the (non-)embeddability of speech acts (cf. Sadock & Zwicky 1985; Reis 1997; Speas & Tenny 2003; Haegeman & Hill 2010; Coniglio 2011; Miyagawa 2012; Munaro & Poletto 2003, 2009; Castroviejo 2006; Potts 2003; but see Crnic & Trinh 2009 and Krifka 2014 for some speech act-embedding predicates), and the licensing of certain movement phenomena in speech acts (e.g. topic movements; see Frascarelli & Hinterhölzl 2007). Another important question is whether speech acts have a more complex syntactic structure, which could be taken as an argument for a special syntactic projection (cf. Speas & Tenny 2003; Haegeman 2014). This workshop is of interest to a broad audience working on the syntax and/or phonology of speech acts.

See the submission page of the GLOW 39 website for the specific details.

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