34.2102, Calls: The Spectrum of Kinds

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-2102. Tue Jul 04 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.2102, Calls: The Spectrum of Kinds

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Date: 29-Jun-2023
From: Carla Umbach [carla.umbach at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: The Spectrum of Kinds


Full Title: The Spectrum of Kinds

Date: 28-Feb-2024 - 01-Mar-2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Carla Umbach
Meeting Email: carla.umbach at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: http://www.carla-umbach.de/spectrumOfKinds/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

The Spectrum of Kinds
Workshop at the Annual Meeting of German Society for Linguistics –
DGfS 2024, Ruhr-University Bochum
Organizers: Cecile Meier (www.cecilemeier.ch) & Carla Umbach
(www.carla-umbach.de)

Call for Papers:

A famous pair of examples in the discussion around kinds are the
bottle examples originally from Barbara Partee, which differ in
acceptability: The Coke bottle has a narrow neck. vs. ?The green
bottle has a narrow neck. The well-known explanation is that
Coke-bottle expresses a well-established kind whereas green bottle
does not. The problem is, however, that it is notoriously difficult to
pin down what well-establishedness is supposed to be. Does it relate
to familiarity or uniqueness, or to the presence of a prototype in
real world or to actual frequency of occurrences of objects? What is
less considered is the question why green bottle should be not
well-established. And the explanation points to a whole spectrum of
kinds.
The opposite pole to well-established kinds in the spectrum of kinds
discussed in linguistics is the notion of ad-hoc kinds. It has been
used in recent years to interpret NPs that are kind-like but at the
same time require on-line construction, for example similarity
demonstratives (so ein Tisch, such a table), NP coordination with
partial lists (water, herbal teas, and the like), similative plurals
(as in Turkish reduplication havlú-mavlú ‘towels and the like’) and
even amount relatives (the champagne they spilled last night). As in
the case of well-establishedness, it seems notoriously difficult to
pin down what distinguishes ad-hoc kind referring expressions from
those referring to non-ad-hoc kinds (bottles), on the one hand, and
from those not referring to kinds at all (people in the next room).
The idea of ad-hoc kinds goes back to research in cognitive psychology
investigating the formation of categories/concepts. There seem to be
categories that are not well-established in memory cutting across the
correlational structure of the environment and nevertheless exhibit
many properties observed for common categories. For example, things to
take from one's home during a fire may include children, dogs,
stereos, blankets etc (Barsalou). From a linguistic point of view,
there is the question of how such categories relate to ad-hoc kinds
and what they can tell us about the formation of ad-hoc kinds.

Our workshop aims at bringing together research in linguistics on
genericity, and in particular on kinds, and research in cognitive
psychology on concepts. We invite submissions for 45 min talks (+ 15
min discussion) addressing issues within the spectrum of kinds
described above. In favor of a coherent program and focused discussion
preference will be given to submissions maximally close to the topic
of the workshop.

Submission before 15. Aug 2023, max. 1 page (regular a4 size / regular
font size), pdf file to
dgfs2024 at carla-umbach.de (subject [DGfS 2024])



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