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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:05:58
From: Ingrid Falkum [i.l.falkum at ifikk.uio.no]
Subject: Word Meaning: Interdisciplinary Themes

 
Word Meaning: Interdisciplinary Themes 

Date: 02-Nov-2016 - 03-Nov-2016 
Location: University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 
Contact: Agustín Vicente 
Contact Email: agustin.vicente at ehu.eus 
Meeting URL: http://lex-meaning-concepts.wix.com/wordmeaningworkshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Research project: Lexical Meaning and Concepts, FFI2014-52173-P, funded by the
MINECO, Spanish Government.

Recent advances in psycholinguistic research have ignited renewed interest in
the linguistic and philosophical debate regarding what words mean. An
increasing awareness of the fact that most, of not all, words are associated
with a range of different senses, the phenomenon traditionally known as
polysemy, have led scholars to reconsider their accounts of word meaning
representation and its relation to conceptual structure, compositional
semantics, and the semantics-pragmatics divide. While most contemporary
accounts converge on the hypothesis that the senses of at least many
polysemous expressions derive from a single meaning representation, there is
little agreement as to what the status of this representations is: Are the
lexical representations of polysemous expressions informationally scarce and
underspecific with respect to the range of distinct senses they can take on in
different context? Or do they have to be informationally rich in order to
store and be able to generate all these senses? Alternatively, are lexical
senses computed from a literal, primary meaning via semantic or pragmatic
mechanisms such as coercion, modulation, or ad hoc concept construction? While
in some fields these issues have been debated for some time already (e.g.,
psycholinguistics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics), they are more recent
in other fields (e.g., formal semantics, philosophy of language, generative
grammar), where they are linked to concerns regarding standard
truth-theoretical semantics stemming both from the study of I-language and the
semantics/pragmatics interface. 

This workshop brings together leading scholars in linguistics, pragmatics,
philosophy and cognitive science in order to provide an opportunity of
in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the topic of word meaning, with a
special focus on polysemy and on the nature of word meaning representation,
which may shape the path forward.

Organizing Committee: Marina Ortega-Andrés, Ingrid Lossius Falkum, Lotte
Hogeweg, Begoña Vicente, Agustín Vicente, Dan Zeman.

Invited Speakers and Provisional Titles:

- Andreas Brocher (University of Cologne): A shared-features model of lexical
ambiguity resolution: Evidence from irregular polysemes
- Robyn Carston (UCL): Polysemy, pragmatics, and lexicon(s)
- Guillermo del Pinal (ZAS Berlin): A multi-dimensional semantics for
truth-conditional pragmatics
- Galit Weidman Sassoon (Bar Ilan University): From lexical meaning to
gradability
- Petra Schumacher (University of Cologne): Online composition and
reconceptualization
- Malka Rappaport Hovav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Grammatically
relevant ontological categories
- Francois Recanati (CNRS, Jean Nicod): The two sides of polysemy 
- Hanna Weiland-Breckle (University of Cologne): Why psycholinguists should be
interested in Woodstock
- Deirdre Wilson (UCL): TBA
- Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University): The meaning of synonymy
 






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