30.1554, Calls: Semantics/France

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1554. Mon Apr 08 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1554, Calls: Semantics/France

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn
Managing Editor: Becca Morris
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Peace Han, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Julian Dietrich
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

**************************************    LINGUIST List Support    **************************************
                                              Fund Drive 2019
                          29 years of LINGUIST List! The annual Fund Drive is on!
Please support the LINGUIST List to ensure we can continue to deliver important information to your mailbox.
                                           Every amount counts:
                                https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 23:54:57
From: Orin Percus [orin.percus at univ-nantes.fr]
Subject: Correlating Possibilities (OASIS 2 satellite workshop)

 
Full Title: Correlating Possibilities (OASIS 2 satellite workshop) 

Date: 14-Oct-2019 - 15-Oct-2019
Location: Nantes, France 
Contact Person: Orin Percus
Meeting Email: orin.percus at univ-nantes.fr
Web Site: http://oasis.cnrs.fr/oasis2workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Call Deadline: 08-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

The workshop ''Correlating possibilities'' will be held on October 14-15,
2019, at the University of Nantes. This workshop is a satellite workshop to
the second OASIS conference (http://oasis.cnrs.fr/).

Invited speakers:

Ana Arregui (UMass – Amherst)
Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford University)
Fabio Del Prete (CNRS)
Dilip Ninan (Tufts University)

Description:

We can make use of the notion of a possible world to describe a way in which
things might be, but there are different ways of going about this that reflect
different ideas about how to consider possible worlds. At one extreme, each
possible world is totally encapsulated. It has its own individuals inhabiting
it; it is associated with its own time line. At the other extreme, the same
individual can exist in different possible worlds, and one can use the same
time line to situate events in different possible worlds. Then one can imagine
intermediate positions – for example, two worlds could literally share a
portion of history until a certain point.

In this workshop, we are interested in contributions that concern the choice
between these views, and in particular that concern their implications for
compositional semantics. Which of these views is most appropriate when it
comes to describing phenomena of natural language? What kinds of criteria, if
any, do we use when it comes to treating different parts of different worlds
as counterparts? If counterpart relations play a role in the meaning of a
sentence, then what part of the compositional semantics introduces them? We
are also interested in related questions. Is there any advantage to
generalizing the view that expressions refer to world-bound individuals and
assuming that they refer moreover to temporal stages of world-bound
individuals? And do alternative notions of possibilities do away with these
kinds of issues in an enlightening way?


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for 45-minute talks to complement those of the invited
speakers and participating members of the OASIS international research
network. Abstracts should be submitted as pdf files via the Easy Chair link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oasis2workshop. We will also consider
poster presentations, so please indicate if you are willing to present your
proposed contribution as a poster.

Abstracts should be single spaced and in 12 point font. They should not
indicate the authors’ names and should not exceed 2 single-spaced A4 (or
letter size) pages. 

The deadline for abstract submission is 9am GMT on Saturday June 8 2019.
Notification of acceptance will be communicated in July.




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
               https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1554	
----------------------------------------------------------