27.1978, Confs: Comp Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:56:41
From: Marie-Christine Meyer [macrst at alum.mit.edu]
Subject: Dynamic Semantics

 
Dynamic Semantics 

Date: 30-May-2016 - 31-May-2016 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: G. Del Pinal, M-C Meyer, D. Rothschild 
Contact Email: DynSemWorkshop at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Standard semantic theories model the meaning of a sentence as a proposition.
In contrast to this static view, dynamic frameworks tie sentential meaning
more closely to the way sentences change the conversational background. Most
famously, this is done by modeling the meaning of a sentence as an instruction
for updating the context. The shift in focus away from propositional content
towards update rules has inspired influential new approaches to phenomena
ranging from presupposition and anaphora to conditionals and epistemic
modality. With this workshop, we aim to explore and re-evaluate foundational
issues of the dynamic program from both an empirical and a conceptual
perspective. Specifically, we seek to address the following questions:

To what extent can and should core phenomena motivating dynamic accounts
(e.g., presupposition accommodation) be re-analyzed as pragmatic processes in
a static semantic framework?
Are formal properties of dynamic frameworks, such as lack of idempotence and
commutativity, really found in natural language?
How does the dynamic/static divide relate to similar conceptual distinctions
in theoretical computer science?
What is the relationship between the dynamic view of discourse as a set of
instructions and Karttunen's notion of discourse referents?

Invited Speakers:

Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard)
Carlotta Pavese (Duke)
James Pryor (NYU)
Daniel Rothschild (University College London)
Phillippe Schlenker (ENS)
Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)
 






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