28.4445, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 28.4445, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:19:39
From: Despina Oikonomou [despina.oikonomou at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Workshop on Non-Canonical Imperatives

 
Full Title: Workshop on Non-Canonical Imperatives 
Short Title: NCI Berlin 2018 

Date: 25-May-2018 - 26-May-2018
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Despina Oikonomou
Meeting Email: nciberlin at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/noncanonicalimperativesberlin/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

Imperatives have always attracted attention in linguistics and philosophy
(Schmerling 1982, Wilson and Sperber 1988, Sadock and Zwicky 1985, Han 2000
a.o.). Particularly over the last decade or so, there has been a growing
interest in the study of imperatives per se (Schwager 2006/Kaufmann 2012,
Portner 2004, 2007, 2015, Grosz 2009, Condoravdi and Lauer 2012, Roberts 2015,
von Fintel and Iatridou 2017 a.o.) but also of speech acts in a broader
perspective (Krifka 2013, Lauer 2013 and the references therein).

Much progress has been made in evaluating particular hypotheses regarding the
syntax-semantics of imperatives and their similarities or differences from
other speech acts. However, there are still many aspects of imperatives that
remain under-investigated both in syntax and semantics. The aim of this
workshop is to shed more light on two such aspects of imperatives:

A. “Non-canonical” uses of imperative forms which seem to deviate from the
meaning/function/syntax of imperatives, e.g. IaDs (see a.o. Han 2000, Kaufmann
2012, Keshet 2013, von Fintel and Iatridou 2017), embedded imperatives (Crnic
& Trinh 2008, Kaufmann 2012, Kaufmann & Stegovec 2015, Zanuttini et. al 2012)

B. Non-imperative forms which seem to have an imperative meaning/function,
e.g. infinitives in German (Gärtner 2014), optative constructions (Grosz 2012
and the references therein)

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Hans-Martin Gärtner (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences)
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Sabine Iatridou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Manfred Krifka (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & ZAS)
Hjalmar Petersen (University of the Faroe Islands)


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of abstracts related to this workshop’s theme,
discussing cases in which either an imperative form deviates from the standard
imperative function/syntax or a non-imperative form functions as an
imperative.

We especially encourage submissions which explore such issues from a
cross-linguistic point view, expanding knowledge to yet unexplored
constructions across languages which function as imperatives or imperative
forms which seem to have a different function.

We also welcome submissions which account for otherwise observed
non-canonicalities in imperatives (e.g. IaDs) or which compare imperatives to
other forms with which they share common properties/functions but also differ
(e.g. infinitives, optatives, promissives).

Abstract Guidelines:

- We invite submissions for 30 minute presentations (plus 10 min discussion).
- We may add a poster session in the program depending on the number of
submissions. Please indicate whether you would be willing to present your work
as a poster.
- Submissions are limited to two per author, and only one paper being
single-authored.
- Abstracts should at most be two pages A4 (including examples and references)
with 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides, set in Times New Roman with a font
size no smaller than 12pt.
- Please submit your abstracts via the following Easychair link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nciberlin2018




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