27.642, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 27.642, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 10:18:52
From: Nicole Gotzner [nicole.gotzner at googlemail.com]
Subject: Disjunction Days: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Disjunction

 
Full Title: Disjunction Days: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Disjunction 

Date: 02-Jun-2016 - 03-Jun-2016
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Nicole Gotzner
Meeting Email: nicole.gotzner at googlemail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

Conference venue: ZAS Berlin
Dates: 2 – 3 June 2016
Organizers: Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland and Maribel Romero
Contact: Nicole Gotzner (nicole.gotzner at googlemail.com)
Invited speakers: Stephen Crain and Maria Aloni

Website: http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=2934

Description:
The goal of the workshop is to bring together theoretical and experimental
perspectives on disjunction. Topics of interest include the following:

- Inclusive, exclusive disjunction and scalar implicatures
- Ignorance, speaker knowledge manipulations and the epistemic step
- Free choice disjunction
- Disjunction and Hurford’s constraint
- Alternative questions and exhaustivity
- The acquisition and processing of disjunction
- Crosslinguistic work on the diversity of disjunction markers
- Historical work on language change affecting disjunction markers


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for a workshop on theoretical and experimental
perspectives on the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction. Submissions
should be anonymous, in PDF format and not exceed 2 pages with standard
formatting, including all references, figures, tables etc.

Please upload your submission to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disjunctiondays2016 by 15 February
2016.

Topics of special interest to the workshop include the following:

- Inclusive, exclusive disjunction and scalar implicatures
- Ignorance, speaker knowledge manipulations and the epistemic step
- Free choice disjunction
- Disjunction and Hurford’s constraint
- Alternative questions and exhaustivity
- The acquisition and processing of disjunction
- Crosslinguistic work on the diversity of disjunction markers
- Historical work on language change affecting disjunction markers

Funded by the DFG XPrag.de Initiative




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