28.41, Calls: General Linguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 28.41, Calls: General Linguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:52:13
From: Carla Umbach [umbach at zas.gwz-berlin.de]
Subject: Microvariation in Semantics

Full Title: Microvariation in Semantics 
Short Title: MicroSem 

Date: 06-Sep-2017 - 06-Sep-2017
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Carla Umbach
Meeting Email: umbach at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Web Site: https://microsem.wordpress.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 12-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

Cross-linguistic research in semantics has yielded significant insights into
how natural languages encode meaning.  To date, prominent work in this
tradition has tended to focus on contrasting typologically unrelated
languages, as exemplified by Krifka (1995) on noun phrase semantics in English
and Chinese, Matthewson (2001) on quantification in English and St'á'imcets,
and Beck et al. (2009) on comparative constructions in 14 typologically
diverse languages.

By comparison, relatively little work has considered more subtle semantic
variation between closely related languages or dialects, an approach that has
played an important role in syntactic theory (e.g. Henry 1995).  Yet the small
body of existing research of this sort has illustrated the value of a
microvariationist perspective in highlighting the semantic facts of individual
languages, and in shedding light on potential semantic universals.  Examples
of such work include Doetjes’ (2008) investigation of regularities and
differences in degree and quantity modification in Romance and Germanic
languages, Mayol & Castroviejo’s (2013) cross-Romance study of evaluative
adverbs in questions, and Burnett’s (2012) work on adverbial quantification in
two dialects of French, from which she derives implications for universals in
quantifier meanings.

The goal of the workshop Microvariation in Semantics is to provide a forum for
the presentation of research that investigates theoretical questions in
semantics via the method of contrasting linguistic data from closely related
languages and dialects.   

We are pleased to have Heather Burnett (CNRS) as the keynote speaker at the
workshop.  

Microvariation in Semantics  will be hosted by the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), as a satellite event to Sinn und Bedeutung 22.  

Scientific Committee:

Heather Burnett (CNRS), 
Eva Csipak (Universität Konstanz)
Jenny Doetjes (Universiteit Leiden), 
Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin)
Lucia Tovena (Université Paris 7), 
Carla Umbach (ZAS Berlin / Universität zu Köln)

Organizers:

Stephanie Solt
Carla Umbach

Call for Papers:

We invite abstract submissions for 45-minute talks (including discussion) on
topics relating to this theme.  We encourage contributions that combine
empirical data with a formal semantics orientation. 

Submissions should be anonymous and should not reveal the identities of the
authors in any form. Abstracts must not exceed two pages (letter size or A4
paper, 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins on all sides, 12 point font), including
examples and references, and must be submitted electronically in PDF format
via EasyChair.

Deadline for abstract submission: March 12, 2017   
Author notification: Beginning of June 2017
Submission link:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=microsem2017

Microvariation in Semantics  will be hosted by the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), as a satellite event to Sinn und Bedeutung 22. 
Double submission is permitted, but a single talk cannot be presented at both
events.  Authors will be asked to indicate at the time of abstract submission
if the abstract has also been submitted to Sinn und Bedeutung.

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