33.412, Summer Schools: The Semantics of Imagination (Workshop at ESSLLI 2022) / Ireland

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Subject: 33.412, Summer Schools:  The Semantics of Imagination (Workshop at ESSLLI 2022) / Ireland

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:54:03
From: Kristina Liefke [Kristina.Liefke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de]
Subject: The Semantics of Imagination (Workshop at ESSLLI 2022) / Ireland

 The Semantics of Imagination (Workshop at ESSLLI 2022)

Host Institution: National University of Ireland, Galway
Coordinating Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Website: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-inf/events/index.html.en

Dates: 15-Aug-2022 - 19-Aug-2022
Location: Galway, Ireland, Ireland

Focus: attitude semantics, parasitic attitudes, de se attitudes, selectional flexibility, selectional restrictions, linguistic expression of perspective
Minimum Education Level: BA


Description:
Description:
Imagination has recently entered center stage in semantics and the philosophy of language. While relevant work has focused on various aspects of imagination, it has left the particular semantic properties of the verb imagine under-explored. These include the wide selectional flexibility and interesting entailment pattern of imagine, the referential dependence of imagine-complements on experience, and the ability of imagine-reports to encode perspective. Since these properties differ from those of standard responsive predicates, parasitic attitudes, and perspectival expressions, they resist modelling through the familiar semantic tools. 

Aims:
Our workshop aims to bring together work on the semantics of imagination that fills this modelling gap. Its master objective is to identify the particular contribution that imagine and (the different constituents in) its complements make to the complex truth-conditions of imagination reports. To achieve this, we also solicit papers that contrast the semantics of imagine with that of related verbs, esp. remember, dream, and see. 

Workshop Topics (non-exhaustive):
- the selectional flexibility of imagine
- selectional restrictions of imagine (e.g. the markedness of 
- imagine whether) 
- imagine and embedded/concealed questions
- referential dependence of imagine-complements on experience
- imagining events
- semantic inclusion relations between different-category imagine-complements 
- monotonicity inferences in the complement of imagine 
- differences between imagine and other attitude verbs

Invited Speakers:
- Franz Berto (University of St Andrews)
- Kyle Blumberg (Australian Catholic University)
- Friederike Moltmann (Universite Cote d’Azur)

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute presentations on any of the
above (or related) topics.

Submission details:
- Submitted abstracts must be anonymous
- Abstracts should not be longer than two pages (A4 or US letter size, 12
point font)
- Abstracts must be submitted in pdf format via EasyChair by Thursday 31 March
2022 (23:59 Central European Standard Time):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semanticsimagination0

Important dates:
- Submission deadline: 31 March 2022 (23:59 Central European Time)
- Notification of decision: 30 April 2022
- Workshop: 15-19 August 2022

For questions, please contact one of the *Workshop Chairs*:

Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum; Kristina.Liefke at ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Justin D’Ambrosio (Australian National University —> University of St Andrews;
justin.z.dambrosio at gmail.com)


Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Subject Languages: English

Registration: 01-Feb-2022 to 31-Mar-2022

Contact Person: Kristina Liefke
                Email: phil-inf at ruhr-uni-bochum.de


Registration Instructions:



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