28.2149, Confs: Gen Ling, Lexicography, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 28.2149, Confs: Gen Ling, Lexicography, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 19:31:20
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: The Lexicon of Subjectivity

 
The Lexicon of Subjectivity 

Date: 13-Jun-2017 - 13-Jun-2017 
Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 
Contact: Dan Zeman 
Contact Email: danczeman at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://danzeman.weebly.com/the-lexicon-of-subjectivity.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Lexicography; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The Lexicon of Subjectivity

A one-day workshop at the
University of the Basque Country
Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies
Vitoria-Gasteiz, JUNE 13, 2017
 

In recent years, one of the most vivid debates in philosophy of language has
been that between contextualism, relativism, and expressivism about a series
of subjective, or perspectival, expressions (such as predicates of personal
taste, aesthetic and moral terms, epistemic vocabulary, gradable adjectives,
epistemic modals etc.). The main arguments discussed so far can be categorized
into two types: arguments based on intuitions about the truth-value of
sentences containing the expressions in question in various situations
(disagreement, eavesdropping, retraction etc.) and arguments based on
syntactic considerations (binding, licensing, control, embeddings under
various attitude verbs etc.).

While such arguments are no doubt important, not much attention has been
devoted to investigating the expressions in question from the point of view of
lexical semantics. There are many lexical theories on the market, but they can
be divided into two broad types. Thus, according to one type of theories,
lexical entries of natural language expressions are rich, comprising a
significant amount of information, possibly structured along several
dimensions, which get selected in context. According to the other type,
lexical entries of natural language expressions are rather skeletal,
comprising only minimal information that is further enriched in context.
Intermediary positions are possible, too: according to those, lexical entries
of some expressions are rich, while those of other expressions are minimal.

This workshop aims to explore the possible significance for the debate
mentioned above of a lexical approach to subjective, or perspectival,
expressions. The general purpose of such an endeavor is to gain insight into
the lexical configuration of subjective expressions and bring to the fore
possible consequences for their syntax, as well as for their semantics. Thus,
among the questions raised and tackled in the workshop are the following:

- What is the lexical configuration of subjective, or perspectival,
expressions?
- What lexical theory is best suited to adequately account for such
expressions?
- How does the lexical configuration of such expressions affect their syntax
and their semantics?
- What are the consequences of such findings for the contemporary debate
between contextualism, relativism and expressivism? 

The workshop is organized by Dan Zeman, Marina Ortega and Agustin Vicente,
with the financial support of the Lexical Meaning and Concepts
(FFI2014-52196-P) project and the Basque Research Group for Theoretical
Linguistics (HiTT). Attendance is free, but please write an email to
danczeman[at]gmail.com if you want to participate.

Participants

Lisa Bylinina, Leiden University
Elena Castroviejo, University of the Basque Country
John Collins, University of East Anglia
Sara Packalén, Stockholm University
Hazel Pearson, Queen Mary University
Carla Umbach, ZAS Berlin
 






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