32.178, Confs: Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Online

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Subject: 32.178, Confs: Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Online

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 12:59:06
From: Judith Tonhauser [judith.tonhauser at ling.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Workshop on Clause-Embedding Predicates (online)

 
Workshop on Clause-Embedding Predicates (online) 

Date: 31-Mar-2021 - 02-Apr-2021 
Location: Columbus, OH (Online), USA 
Contact: Judith Tonhauser 
Contact Email: judith.tonhauser at ling.uni-stuttgart.de 
Meeting URL: https://u.osu.edu/cep1/ 

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

Meeting Description: 

The virtual workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of clause-embedding
predicates will be hosted by the Linguistics department at The Ohio State
University on March 31 to April 2, 2021, with funding support from the
National Science Foundation. The workshop is organized by Craige Roberts and
Judith Tonhauser.

The workshop is intended to facilitate a discussion among researchers in
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics
on the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of clause-embedding predicates. The
overarching goal of the workshop is to address the question of which
components of the structure and meaning of such predicates predict how they
are used in discourse and what inferences listeners draw from speakers’
utterances of sentences containing them.

The workshop will feature invited presentations by:
 - Márta Abrusán (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod)
 - Corien Bary (Radboud University)
 - Judith Degen (Stanford University)
 - Kajsa Djärv (University of Konstanz)
 - Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland)
 - Ellie Pavlick (Brown University)
 - Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins University)

Topics we are hoping to discuss as part of the workshop include:

- Which classes of predicates emerge from the results of empirical diagnostics
regarding their structure, semantics and pragmatics (e.g., their modal flavor,
presupposition of the content of the complement, veridicality, selectional
restrictions including grammatical mood of complements, and control
properties)?

- Which syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties can be predicted from
class membership? E.g., how does the veridicality of a predicate with a finite
complement bear on whether that same predicate taking an infinitival
complement exhibits obligatory control or yields de se interpretations? Which
aspects of the meaning of a predicate predict whether the content of its
complement is assertable (Hooper 1975), at-issue or projective?

- What do computational models predict about the structure and meaning of
clause-embedding predicates?

- How do different senses of a predicate differ in their corresponding
syntactic, semantic or pragmatic properties?

- What are the limits of cross-linguistic variation in the structure and
meaning of clause-embedding predicates?

- Which cross-linguistic phenomena bear on our understanding of
clause-embedding predicates (e.g., evidentiality, modality, mood selection)?
 

Program Information: 

The workshop has online and offline components. The online components take
place on March 31 to April 2, 2021 from 10am to 1:15pm EST (4pm to 7:15pm CET,
7am to 10:15am PST). During these times, we will discuss the invited workshop
contributions as well as overarching workshop questions. 

The offline component of the workshop consists of prerecorded presentations.
These presentations will be made available by March 17, 2021, to give workshop
participants ample time to watch those presentations in preparation for the
online discussion component of the workshop.

Details about the program and how to participate in the online workshop will
be announced on the workshop website (https://u.osu.edu/cep1/).





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