34.2595, Confs: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites
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Subject: 34.2595, Confs: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites
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Date: 30-Aug-2023
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [patricia.cabredo-hofherr at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites
Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites
Date: 21-Sep-2023 - 22-Sep-2023
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Contact Email: patricia.cabredo-hofherr at cnrs.fr
Meeting URL: https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/jet-semantique-des-indefinis-work
shop-semantics-indefinites
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Meeting Description:
The semantics of indefinites has proven to be a fruitful field of
research in formal semantics. While indefinites were classically
analysed as quantified expressions, in the 1980s, Kamp and Heim showed
that the discourse properties of indefinites were at odds with this
analysis, proposing dynamic semantic models to explain the discourse
potential of indefinites.
In the last 20 years the study of focus phenomena and of the semantics
of questions led to a renewed interest in alternative-based semantics.
In this context, research on polarity items and free choice phenomena
has flourished. More recently, a growing body of research has
addressed the analysis of epistemic indefinites, examining
implicatures of indifference, ignorance and plurality contributed by
certain indefinites.
Final Call for Papers:
The workshop will be held in hybrid format at UPS Pouchet, 59 rue
Pouchet 75017 Paris and on zoom.
The zoom link will be posted on the page
https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/jet-semantique-des-indefinis-workshop-semantic
s-indefinites
the day before the workshop.
Conférences invitées / Invited speakers:
• Julia Pozas Loyo (Colegio de México)
• Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF, CNRS & Paris Cité)
• Lucia Tovena (LLF, U. Paris Cité)
• Klaus von Heusinger (U. Köln)
Programme Thur 21- Fri 22 Sept 2023
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Thur 21 Sept 2023
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09h30-10h30 Conférence invitée : Julia Pozas Loyo (Colegio de México)
On the diachrony of *some* Spanish indefinites
10h30-10h50 pause café
10h50-11h25 Bo XUE (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Mandarin epistemic
indefinite mǒu at the syntax-semantics interface: A presuppositional
question-based analysis
11h25-12h00 Bujar Rushiti (Prishtinë, Kosovë) The njëfarë-marked
indefinites in Albanian
12h00-12h35 Pavel Astafiev (HSE, Moscow) Random choice modality: the
case of Russian wh popalo
12h35-14h20 déjeuner
14h30-15h30 Conférence invitée : Klaus von Heusinger (U.
Cologne)(zoom)
Interpretation of Indefinites – Information Structure and Modification
15h30-16h05 Raquel Veiga Bustos, Floris Roelofsen & Alexandra
Navarrete González (U v Amsterdam) On the distribution of
existentially interpreted quexistentials in Catalan Sign Language
16h05-16h40 Walid Hafsi (U. Nantes) An extreme domain restriction
approach to Algerian Arabic indefinites
16h40-17h00 Pause café
17h00 -17h35 Luciana Sanchez Mendes (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
& Ana Clara Polakof (Universidad de la República) Exclamative
Indefinites in Brazilian Portuguese and Rioplatense Spanish
17h35-18h10 Ana Paula Quadros Gomes, Ana Regina Calindro & Alessandro
Boechat de Medeiros (zoom) "Algum" in Portuguese: Positive Polarity
Item and Negative Polarity Item
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Friday 22 sept 2023
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09h30-10h30 Conférence invitée : Lucia Tovena (U. Paris Cité & LLF)
Title TBC
1035-11h10 Irina Khomchenkova Free choice, universal quantification
and indefiniteness in Tatyshly Udmurt
11h10-11h25 pause café
11h25-12h00 Denis Pisarenko (HSE, Moscow) Where partial and total
variation do not compete: evidence from Russian
12h00-13h00 Conférence invitée : Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF, CNRS &
Paris Cité)
Bare Nouns and Weak Indefinites
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Alternates
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Qianqian REN (Chinese U. Hong Kong) Chinese wh-relatives are
wh-interrogatives: Dynamicity, interrogativity and intensionality
Aviv Schoenfeld (Tel Aviv) Revisiting the pumpkin crusher puzzle
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