34.1345, Calls: Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Decomposition and Presuppositions

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Subject: 34.1345, Calls: Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Decomposition and Presuppositions

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Date: 27-Apr-2023
From: Remus Gergel [remus.gergel at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Decomposition and Presuppositions

Full Title: Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Decomposition
and Presuppositions

Date: 08-Nov-2023 - 09-Nov-2023
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
Contact Person: Martin Kopf
Meeting Email: martin.kopf at uni-saarland.de

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2023

Meeting Description:

Adverbs like 'again' or 'almos't and their possible counterparts in
many languages have sparked interest and occasionally controversies
regarding the possibility of event decomposition e.g. especially since
Arnim von Stechow’s (1996) contribution, sometimes with a twist on
not-at-issue meanings  (see, for example, Ausensi, Yu & Smith 2021,
Beck 2005, Fabricius-Hansen 2001, Gergel & Beck 2015, Gergel & Nickles
2019, Patel-Grosz & Beck 2019, Pedersen 2014, Pustejovsky 2013, Zwarts
2019 for some recent approaches in different ares of potential
decomposition). This workshop takes place in connection with a
DFG-funded project "Decomposing Decomposition over Time“ with an added
- but by no means exclusive - interest in the diachronic developments
of decompositional or presuppositional items in which alongside fresh
ideas from synchronic theoretical modeling (semantics, pragmatics,
syntax), concerns of corpus annotational accuracy and computational
procedures are all invited to play a part. 
Confirmed invited speakers: 
Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
Joost Zwarts, Utrecht University

References:
Ausensi, J., Yu, J., and Smith, R.W. (2021). Agent entailments and the
division of labor between functional structure and roots. Glossa: A
Journal of General Linguistics, 6(1): 53.
Beck, S. (2005). There and back again: A semantic analysis. Journal of
Semantics, 22: 3-51.
Fabricius-Hansen, C. (2001). Wi(e)der and Again(st). In Féry, C. and
Sternefeld, W. (eds). Audiatur Vox Sapientiae. A Festschrift for Arnim
von Stechow. 101-130. De Gruyter, Berlin.
Gergel, R. and Beck, S. (2015). Early Modern English again: a corpus
study and semantic analysis. English Language and Linguistics, 19(1):
27–47.
Gergel, R. and Nickles, S. (2019). Almost in Early and Late Modern
English. Turn on the parametric screw (but not tightly enough to
change a parameter). In Gattnar, A., Hörnig, R., and Featherston, S.
(eds). Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018. 282–293. University of
Tübingen.
Patel-Grosz, P. and Beck, S. (2019). Different Again. Semantics and
Pragmatics, 51(3): 1–52.
Pedersen, W. (2014). A scalar analysis of again-ambiguities. Journal
of Semantics, 32(3): 373–424.
Pustejovsky, J. (2013). Type theory and lexical decomposition. In
Pustejovsky, J., Bouillon, P., Hitoshi, I., Kanzaki, K., and Chungmin,
L., (eds). Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory. Springer, Dordrecht.
Zwarts, Joost. (2019). From ‘back’ to ‘again’ in Dutch: The structure
of the ‘re’ domain. Journal of Semantics, 36:211–240.

Call for papers:

We invite interested researchers working on formal theoretical issues
of decomposition (whether synchronic or diachronic), the diachrony of
presuppositions, or the annotation/computational modeling of
synchronic or diachronic data with a decompositional or
presuppositional character to submit a one-page  abstract (12p, Times
New Roman) by June 15, 2023 to presuppositions.in.time at gmail.com.

An additional page can be attached for (i) references, (ii) examples
from languages other than English that require additional space due to
glossing/translation, (iii) examples illustrating long and necessary
corpus data which may require additional space. 
While the abstracts themselves should be anonymous, names and
affiliations of all authors should be included in the email message.
Notifications of acceptance/rejection are planned within six weeks
after the final deadline for abstract submissions. 

Workshop date: November 8-9 2023 at Saarland University.

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