27.1584, Calls: General Ling, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Semantics/Netherlands

Tue Apr 5 17:39:45 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1584. Tue Apr 05 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1584, Calls: General Ling, Ling Theories, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Semantics/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:39:38
From: Yaron McNabb [y.mcnabb at uu.nl]
Subject: Language in Logic and in Conversation

Full Title: Language in Logic and in Conversation 
Short Title: LogiCon 2016 

Date: 19-Sep-2016 - 20-Sep-2016
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Yaron McNabb
Meeting Email: y.mcnabb at uu.nl
Web Site: http://rose.wp.hum.uu.nl/logic-in-language-and-in-conversation-2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

Nearly 50 years after Grice’s William James lectures on Logic and
Conversation, the meaning and use of “logical” expressions in natural language
(quantifiers, connectives, negation, modals) is a livelier topic than ever. A
lot of ground has been covered over the past decades, but there are also still
many disagreements. Progress lies not only in building on the existing
debates, but also in shifting the focus to new and/or neglected logical
phenomena in natural language semantics.

Theories of implicature hope to reconcile logical orthodoxy with linguistic
reality, but there is emergent understanding that the discrepancy between
logical and linguistic meaning is not a uniform phenomenon. There are
diachronic effects such as fossilization (Grice 1975, Chierchia et al. 2008,
Aloni et al. 2010), interpretation may at some points be mediated by
typicality effect (van Tiel 2014) and implicatures generally do not appear to
be a totally homogeneous phenomenon (Doran et al. 2009, 2012; Chemla & Bott
2014; Degen 2015; van Tiel et al. 2016). Our current understanding of the
interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics is now richer than ever.

In this workshop, we hope to bring together new insights on, and directions
in, the semantics and pragmatics of logical expressions.

Possible topics include:

- New theoretical or experimental approaches to implicatures, be they scalar
implicatures, free choice implicatures or other
- New approaches to the semantics and/or pragmatics of standard logical
expressions: quantifiers, connectives, and negation
- New theoretical or experimental approaches to modals and conditionals
- Theoretical and/or experimental studies of scalar items more generally
(adjectives, numerals, modified numerals)

The workshop will take place on 19-20 September, 2016, in Utrecht, the
Netherlands, and is funded by the ERC-funded project “Restriction and
Obviation in Scalar Expressions” (ROSE).

Invited Speakers:

Maria Aloni (UvA)
Emmanuel Chemla (ENS)
Luka Crnič (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Susan Rothstein (Bar Ilan University)

Worksop organizers:

Rick Nouwen, Yaron McNabb, Dominique Blok, and Stavroula Alexandropoulou

Call for Papers: 

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute-long talks and/or posters. Please indicate
whether you’d like your abstract to be considered as a talk, poster, or both.
Abstracts, including references and data, should be limited to three
single-spaced pages (A4 or US Letter) with 2.5cm (1-inch) margins and a
minimum font size of 12pt. One person can submit at most one abstract as sole
author and one abstract as co-author (or two co-authored abstracts). Abstracts
in PDF format should be submitted through EasyChair by June 1 at the following
URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=logicon2016

Abstract deadline: June 1, 2016 
Notification: July 1, 2016 
Conference: September 19-20, 2016

Any questions about the workshop can be directed to Yaron McNabb at
y.mcnabb at uu.nl

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