30.947, Confs: General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 30.947, Confs: General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:55:30
From: Berit Gehrke [erdbeerita at gmail.com]
Subject: Concessives vs. Adversatives: Opposing Opposition

 
Concessives vs. Adversatives: Opposing Opposition 
Short Title: CAOO 

Date: 06-Mar-2019 - 08-Mar-2019 
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact: Berit Gehrke 
Contact Email: OpposingOpposition at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/opposing-opposition-dgfs2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Concessive and adversative relations, introduced by adverbs (e.g.
nevertheless), prepositions (in spite of), complementizers (e.g. while) and
conjunctions (e.g. but), express a contrast to the element they are related to
and raise different issues in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Adversative
clauses have been studied in relation to information and discourse structure
(and the notion of contrast, e.g. Sœbø 2004, Umbach 2005, Jasinskaja 2012,
Jasinskaja & Zeevat 2008, 2009, Zeevat 2012, Winterstein 2012), as well as in
terms of argumentation theory (Anscombre & Ducrot 1983). Concessives, on the
other hand, have been examined alongside causal and conditional clauses,
notably by König (1986, 1994) and König & Siemund (2000), and recently also by
Liu (in preparation), in investigating experimentally the connection between
connectives and conditionals. However, concessives and adversatives have not
been systematically compared and contrasted.

The goals of this workshop, which is part of the 41st annual meeting of the
German linguistic society DGfS, are the following: (1) to debate formal
semantic and pragmatic characterisations of adversative and concessive
constructions; (2) to discuss analyses of constructions that include
adversative or concessive semantics, such as scalar modifiers (at least, as
discussed e.g. in Nakanishi & Rullmann 2009 and Biezma 2013); (3) to compare
cross-linguistic, diachronic, experimental and theoretical approaches on the
topic, and, (4), ultimately, to deepen our understanding of the semantic and
pragmatic distinction between coordination and subordination, as well as the
notion of opposition that underlies these semantic and pragmatic relations. 

Further topics of interest include the import of mood marking (e.g.
subjunctive vs. indicative, see e.g. Quer 1998), the question as to what is
negated, the semantics-pragmatics of the elements involved in the expression
of this relation (adverbs, prepositions, complementizers, conjunctions), the
acquisition of concessive and adversative expressions (which are generally
assumed to be acquired late), the diachronic development of such expressions
(for example, many concessive adverbials are grammaticalized expressions, such
as Spanish sin embargo 'nevertheless, lit. without + seizure', German trotzdem
'nevertheless, lit. despite + demonstrative', Catalan això no obstant
'nevertheless, lit. this not preventing'), or the number of meaning types
conveyed in the expression of adversativity and concession (e.g. Iten 2000).
 

Program:

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

13:45 – 14:45: Katja Jasinskaja (invited speaker): On the disambiguation of
but
14:45 – 15:15: Regina Zieleke: German contrastive connectives beyond aber
15:15 – 15:45: Jonathon D. Coltz: Parallel puzzles: Concessives, adversatives,
and presuppositions in infelicitous conditionals
 

16:30 – 17:00:  Werner Frey: Linking some syntactic and semantic features of
concessives and adversatives
17:00 – 17:30: Madeleine Butschety: Epistemic vs. concessive at least: A
matter of epistemic Uncertainty 
17:30 – 18:00: Doris Penka: A closer look at concessive at least in English
and German

Thursday, 7 March 2019

09:00 - 09:30: Ekkehard König: Concessivity: Admissible and inadmissible
background assumption
09:30 - 10:30: Elena Karagjosova: On the type of concession expressed by
concessive subjunctions and bipartite concessive constructions in German: a
synchronic and diachronic analysis

11:15 - 11:45: Lukas Rieser: Frustrated expectation and conditional modality:
the Japanese concessive no-ni
11:45 - 12:15: Ksenia Ershova & Itamar Francez: From Quotation to Concession:
The Case of East Circassian
12:15 - 12:45: Hanzhi Zhu: The additivity of concessive still

13:45 – 14:45: Mingya Liu (invited speaker): The Siblings in the Shadow of if:
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives

Friday, 8 March 2019

11:30 – 12:30: Laura Baranzini & Alda Mari: Concessivity: reasoning per
absurdum with epistemic modals and adversatives
12:30 - 13:00: Maria Barouni: Concessive elements and the role of superlative
morphology
13:00 - 14:00: Martina Faller: Concessive conditionals with non-scalar
additives in Cuzco Quechua and German





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