32.2949, Calls: General Linguistics/USA (Online)

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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:02:13
From: Kyle Thompson [kthompson at g.hmc.edu]
Subject: Agency and Intentions in Language 2

 
Full Title: Agency and Intentions in Language 2 
Short Title: AIL2 

Date: 12-Jan-2022 - 14-Jan-2022
Location: Harvey Mudd College (virtual), USA 
Contact Person: Kyle Thompson
Meeting Email: kthompson at g.hmc.edu
Web Site: https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL2-Workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2021 

Meeting Description:

Our sense of agency and ability to distinguish between intentional and
accidental actions are fundamental for social interaction. They allow us to
plan and perform joint actions and assign responsibility for our own actions
and those of others. Research on the nature of agency and intentions has been
very fruitful over the last few decades in philosophy, linguistics, and
psychology. However, interdisciplinary discussion has rarely taken place. 

The first interdisciplinary workshop on Agency and Intentions in Language
(AIL1) was held at the start of 2021, and it was marked with great success. To
continue the conversation, the second annual workshop (AIL2) will bring
together scholars in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology interested in
questions related to agency and intentions, broadly construed.


Call for Papers:

Agency and Intentions in Language 2 (AIL2)
Second Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop
Harvey Mudd College
January 12-14, 2022 (virtual)

The first interdisciplinary workshop on Agency and Intentions in Language was
held at the start of 2021, and it was marked with great success. To continue
the conversation, the second annual workshop (AIL2) will bring together
scholars in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology interested in questions
related to agency and intentions, broadly construed. Please consider
submitting your work (details below), or attending the workshop, to advance
the scholarly understanding of ideas central to multiple academic disciplines.

Invited Speakers:
- Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut) 
- David Pizarro (Cornell University)
- Hannah Tierney (UC Davis) & Andrew James Latham (University of Sydney);
Joint Talk
- Thomas Grano (Indiana University Bloomington) 

On the linguistic side, we welcome submissions examining any grammatical
phenomena sensitive to the degree of agency or interpretation of an action as
intentional versus accidental, such as controller choice, subjunctive
obviation, licensing of polarity items, aspect choice in Slavic, case marking
in ergative split languages and ‘out-of-control’ morphology. Submissions are
welcome from all domains of grammar (morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, etc.) and irrespective of any specific theoretical framework or
empirical approach. Some of the topics of interest include, but are not
restricted to, the following: ways in which natural languages manifest
different degrees of agency or the distinction between intentional and
accidental actions (morphological marking, syntactic structures, semantic
denotations of verbs and adverbials, pragmatic and contextual differences);
connections between agency, intentions, and event structure; relations between
agency, intentions, and causality. 

On the side of philosophy, we welcome submissions addressing any aspect
related to philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, the nature of agency,
intentions, and acting intentionally. Both theoretical and empirical projects
are welcome as they contribute to debates on various theories of action, free
will, moral responsibility, nature of reasons, and practical rationality. 

Lastly, we are making an effort to include research in psychology that
similarly deals with agency, intentions, moral responsibility, and other
related topics, broadly construed. For some examples, we welcome research on
the following topics and more: issues in developmental psychology,
psycholinguistics, clinical psychology (the sense of agency in individuals
with schizophrenia, OCD, etc.), and adults' perception of agency and
responsibility. 

Submissions:
Anonymous abstracts, not exceeding 2 pages single-spaced (including references
and examples), with font no less than 11 Times New Roman, and 2 cm margins (or
.8 inch margins), should be uploaded on the AIL2 EasyChair site
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ail2). We expect to notify authors of
their acceptance at the end of December 2021. Presentations will be allotted
30-minute slots with 15 minutes for Q&A. Additionally, there will be
opportunities for some submitters to present their work in a poster session. 

Important dates:
- Submission deadline: December 10, 2021
- Notification of acceptance: End of December
- Workshop: January 12-14, 2022 (9h–13h New York time; 15h–19h Berlin time)

Organizing committee:
- Kyle Thompson (Harvey Mudd College): email kthompson at g.hmc.edu with workshop
questions 
- Joshua Knobe (Yale University) 
- Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen)
- Julie Goncharov (University of Göttingen)

Find more details and workshop registration for AIL2 at
https://ail-workshop.github.io/AIL2-Workshop/




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