29.962, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Austria

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Subject: 29.962, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Austria

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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:24:17
From: Muriel Assmann [unalternatives.project at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Information Structure Workshop: Form and Interpretation

 
Full Title: Information Structure Workshop: Form and Interpretation 
Short Title: ISW2018 

Date: 20-Jul-2018 - 20-Jul-2018
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact Person: Muriel Assmann
Meeting Email: unalternatives.project at univie.ac.at
Web Site: http://lfg2018.univie.ac.at/program/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

This workshop invites contributions on the marking and interpretation of
information structure, including focus, topic, contrast and givenness in the
context of non-transformational grammars. These may include, but need not be
limited to, contributions on:

A. Information structure marking in lesser studied languages; what categories
need to be distinguished to account for distributional facts? How are they
encoded, and what options are there for mapping them onto a universal
representation of IS functions?
B. Different ways of focus marking: Ways to model the influence of syntactic
position, morphological marking and prosodic marking on the signalling of IS
categories, across languages, but also in languages that combine several of
these.
C. IS ambiguities: Patterns in which the same form is compatible with
different sizes, or even locations, of pragmatic focus/topic etc (`focus
projection’). How to model these, and what patterns are attested?
D. Prosodic Structure in LFG, especially those aspects apparently relevant for
IS-marking, i.e. stress, accent, tones and phrasing.
E. IS Semantics: What machinery (multidimensional meanings, underspecified
representations, structured meanings…) is needed to account for the semantics
of IS marking, and how to implement them e.g. using glue semantics.
F. IS Pragmatics: What are the pragmatic conditions on the use of IS
categories, i.e. how do pragmatic rules make reference to such labels as
`focus’, `topic’ etc.


Call for Papers:

We invite abstract submissions for a 25-minute presentation followed by a
10-minute discussion. Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in 12-point font
with 1'' margins, including data and references. Abstracts must be submitted
as a pdf attachment using the following easychair link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isw2018 .




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