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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:57:56
From: Simona Di Paola [simona.dipaola at edu.unige.it]
Subject: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions

Full Title: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions 
Short Title: Express2017 

Date: 03-Mar-2017 - 05-Mar-2017
Location: Genoa, Italy 
Contact Person: Simona Di Paola
Meeting Email: simona.dipaola at edu.unige.it
Web Site: http://genoapresuppositions.weebly.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 04-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

Presuppositions are a major focus of current research in semantics and
pragmatics, especially so under the traditional broad understanding of
presupposition encompassing all types of content that can project from the
scope of semantic operators. Much recent work on presupposition has shown how
experimental results can shed light on current theoretical debates (e.g.
Chemla, 2009; Chemla & Schenker; Schwartz & Tiemann, 2016; Domaneschi et al.,
2014). Nevertheless many old theoretical debates and empirical problems remain
still open. 

The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of the state of the art of
experimental techniques and results as well as theoretical developments on
presuppositions processing. The ideal contribution is one that advances
presupposition on the basis of experimental data, but also contributions on
the experimental methodology for testing presuppositions and those making
novel theoretical proposals are welcome.

Topics include but are not limited to the following: 

- Presuppositions and context
- Presupposition triggers
- Informative presupposition
- Presupposition accomodation
- The presupposition projection problem
- Presuppositions in Dynamic Semantics
- The presupposition/implicature distinction.

Invited Speakers: 

- Florian Schwarz, University of Pennsylvania
- Nadine Bade, University of Tübingen, ObTrEx

Organizers: 

- Uli Sauerland (SSI)
- Edgar Onea (EXCI)
- Filippo Domaneschi (Genoa, EXPRESS)
- Simona Di Paola (Genoa, Express)

Time and venue: DISFOR, Department of Educational Sciences – Psychology Unit,
University of Genoa, Genoa (Italy), March 3-5, 2017. 

References: 

- Chemla, E.  (2009). Presuppositions of quantified sentences: Experimental
Data. Natural Language Semantics, 17(4): 299-340. 
- Chemla, E. & Schenker, P. (2012). Incremental vs. symmetric accounts of
presupposition projection: An experimental approach. Natural Language
Semantics, 20(2): 177-226. 
- Domaneschi, F.; Carrea, E.; Penco, C. & Greco, A. (2014). The cognitive load
of presupposition triggers: mandatory and optional repairs in presupposition
failure. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(1): 136-146
- Schwartz, F.  & Tiemann, S. (2016). Presupposition Projection in Online
Processing. Journal of Semantics 1-46.  

Call for Papersː

Workshop: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions

We invite submissions for 30-minute talks plus 15 minutes for discussion.
Abstracts should be no more than one page (A4) long plus an extra page for
linguistic data, figures and references. Abstracts should be anonymous and
consist of a single PDF file. 

Submissions will be peer-reviewed and will be selected either for oral or for
poster presentation. 

Abstract submission and review will be exclusively handed through the
Easychair system at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=express2017 .

The submission deadline is December 4, 2016. 

Registration Fee is 30 Euros.

Conference website: http://genoapresuppositions.weebly.com

Important Datesː

Abstract submission: December 4, 2016 
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2017
Registration: February 23, 2017

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