33.2546, Confs: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2546. Thu Aug 18 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2546, Confs: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/France

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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:25:08
From: Keny Chatain [hnm1.workshop at aol.com]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Homogeneity and Non-Maximality in Plural Predication and Beyond

 
1st Workshop on Homogeneity and Non-Maximality in Plural Predication and Beyond 
Short Title: HNM1 

Date: 18-Nov-2022 - 19-Nov-2022 
Location: Online, France 
Contact: Keny Chatain 
Contact Email: hnm1.workshop at aol.com 
Meeting URL: https://homogeneity-workshop.netlify.app/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

A long-standing observation (since at least Fodor 1970) is that in certain
contexts, sentences containing plurals exhibit gaps between their truth and
falsity conditions. If John read half of the books he was assigned, neither
(1-a) nor (1-b) seems true; furthermore, in three-valued judgment tasks (Križ
& Chemla 2015), speakers tend to judge sentences like (1-a) “neither
completely true nor completely false” in such scenarios.

(1)
a. John read the books.
b. John didn’t read the books.

This curious gap in meaning has been dubbed homogeneity. For definite plurals
and type e conjunctions, homogeneity effects have been studied extensively and
are attested in unrelated language families (e.g. Szabolcsi & Haddican 2004).
But homogeneity effects have also been observed in other domains: mass and
group nouns (Löbner 2000), generics (von Fintel 1997, Löbner 2000 a.o.), time
(Agha 2021), embedded questions (Križ 2015; Blok & Chark 2021), conditionals
(von Fintel 1997 a.o.), neg-raising predicates (Gajewski 2005), t-based
conjunctions (Schmitt 2013), donkey anaphora (Krifka 1996, Champollion et al.
2019), clefts (Büring & Križ 2012) etc.

The stability and pervasiveness of homogeneity call for a general theory. Yet,
despite extensive theoretical work (Schwarzschild 1994; Löbner 2000; Gajewski
2005; Križ 2015; Magri 2014; Križ & Spector 2021, Bar-Lev 2021), many things
remain unknown, from the precise conditions under which homogeneity is found
to its potential connection to other gappy phenomena.

Another set of open questions concerns the relation between homogeneity and
imprecision or non-maximality: In some contexts, (1-a) can still be judged
true if John read, say, 7 out of 10 assigned books (see Brisson (1998),
Malamud (2012), Križ (2015), Burnett (2017) a.o. for discussion).
Non-maximality is characteristic of plural definites, but absent in
constructions like (2) that also lack homogeneity. This raises the question of
whether homogeneity and non-maximality are due to the same underlying
mechanism (see e.g. Križ 2015, Bar-Lev 2021, Križ & Spector 2021, Feinmann
2020 for discussion).

(2) John read all the books.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on
homogeneity and non-maximality and have a discussion on some of the
outstanding issues related to homogeneity and non-maximality.
 






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