30.3942, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 30.3942, Calls: Philosophy of Lang, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 04:13:30
From: Cameron Wilson [wilson at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Workshop on Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects

 
Full Title: Workshop on Degree Expressions and Polarity Effects 
Short Title: DegPol2020 

Date: 09-Mar-2020 - 10-Mar-2020
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Cameron Wilson
Meeting Email: wilson at leibniz.zas.de

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

On March 9-10, 2020, the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
in Berlin, Germany will host the workshop ''Degree Expressions and Polarity
Effects'' (DegPol2020). Expressions of degree are often sensitive to the
polarity of the environments that they occur in. Some degree modifiers are
polarity items: as PPIs we find moderate-degree modifiers such as fairly,
somewhat and their cross-linguistic counterparts (Nouwen 2013), as well as
evaluative modifiers such as Catalan ''ben'' (Castroviejo & Gehrke 2015); NPIs
include high-degree modifiers such as English ''all that'' (Israel 1996) and
Japanese ''anmari'' (Matsui 2011). Other degree expressions show more subtle
effects of polarity. As an example, high-degree predicates such as
''gorgeous'' and ''delicious'' are infrequent and are judged degraded - though
not outright ungrammatical - in negated contexts (Morzycki 2012, Hoeksema
2018). Another focus of investigation is the phenomenon of litotes, and
negative strengthening more generally (Horn 1989, 2002, 2010, 2017; van der
Wouden 1996; Krifka 2007; Neuhaus 2016; Gotzner et al. 2018), where a negated
scalar term takes on a stronger interpretation than the simple semantic one -
for example the interpretation of ''not too bright'' to mean 'rather stupid'.
Finally, the positive and negative members of a pair of antonyms may behave
differently with respect to the pragmatic inferences they give rise too,
including scalar implicatures (van Tiel et al. 2018) and so-called 'inferences
towards the antonym' (Ruytenbeek et al. 2017).  

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of the
interaction of scalarity and positive versus negative polarity, from the
perspectives of semantics, pragmatics, syntax and psycholinguistics.


Call for papers: 

We invite abstract submissions for 40-minute talks (30+10) and posters on
topics including but not limited to: 

- Theoretical and experimental investigations of PPI and / or NPI degree
modifiers and degree constructions 

- Litotes and other forms of pragmatic strengthening of negated scalar
expressions 

- Implicatures of scalar / degree expressions in positive versus negative
environments 

- Pragmatic inferences generated by positive versus negative scalar antonyms 

- Corpus-based investigations of polarity effects in the degree domain 

- The interaction of adjectival scale structure and polarity effects 

- Processing of scalar polarity items 

Abstracts must not exceed two pages of A4 or letter-sized paper, including
data and references, with 1-inch (2.5 cm) margins on all sides, set in at
least 11-point font. The abstract should have a clear title and should not
identify the author(s). The abstract must be submitted electronically in PDF
format, using our EasyChair electronic submission website: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=degpol2020 
 
Important Dates:  

Abstract Submission deadline: November 30, 2019 
Notification of acceptance: late December, 2019  
Workshop dates: March 9 - 10, 2020  
 

Invited speakers:  
 
Berit Gehrke (Humboldt University Berlin) 
Larry Horn (Yale University) 
Laura Neuhaus (Duden) 
Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University) 

 
Organizers:  

Stephanie Solt (Leibniz-ZAS) 
Cameron Wilson (Leibniz-ZAS)




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