34.1882, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG: (De-)composition and modification of attitude predicates

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Subject: 34.1882, Calls: DGfS 2024 AG: (De-)composition and modification of attitude predicates

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Date: 14-Jun-2023
From: Valerie Wurm [valerie.wurm at hu-berlin.ee]
Subject: DGfS 2024 AG: (De-)composition and modification of attitude predicates

Full Title: DGfS 2024 AG: (De-)composition and modification of
attitude predicates

Date: 28-Feb-2024 - 01-Mar-2024
Location: Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Valerie Wurm
Meeting Email: valerie.wurm at hu-berlin.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/attitudesdgfs24

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language;
Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 14-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

Coordinators: Frank Sode, Valerie Wurm, Sarah Zobel; HU Berlin

The grammar, meaning, and use of attitude predicates has been an
active topic of research in both linguistics and philosophy at least
since Hintikka’s seminal work. While Hintikka’s work remains
influential, it is clear that the analysis he offers falls short in
the face of the variability and complexity of attitude predicates
across languages. Two areas in which this has become especially
apparent concern (i) the decomposition of attitude meanings and its
consequences for the typology of attitude predicates (see e.g., Heim
1992 on epistemic and bouletic attitudes and subsequent work), as well
and (ii) the composition of complex attitude predicates formed via
modification or from combinations of lexemes/morphemes with or without
their own attitudinal lexical semantics (e.g., Zimmermann 2006 on
wissen ‘know’ plus wollen ‘want’ as ‘claim’ and ‘ask’). Greater
insight into these two areas furthers our understanding of the overall
landscape of attitude semantics and helps identify the primitive
’building blocks’ of attitude predicates cross-linguistically.
Additionally, it may shed light on the division of labor between
semantics and pragmatics at the syntax-semantics-interface of clausal
embedding with attitude predicates. The main aim of this workshop is
thus to encourage discussion between researchers contributing to these
two areas based on new data, empirical observations, and theoretical
considerations on:

- grammatical evidence for semantic decomposition—for attitude
predicates in general and for subgroups thereof (e.g., mood marking
(Villalta 2008, Giannakidou & Mari 2021), agreement and concord
phenomena (Anand & Hacquard 2013), non-propositional attitudes
(Montague 2007), gradable and evaluative meaning components (Villalta
2008, Koev 2019), event structure and complement types (Müller 2020,
Özyıldız 2021, Liefke & Werning 2021)

- complex attitude predicates with potentially non-transparent
composition and differing argument structure to their
lexical/morphological parts (e.g., interactions among attitude verbs
or between modals and attitude verbs (Zimmermann 2006), derived
adjectives and adverbs with attitudinal stems)

We, therefore, aim to bring together researchers in semantics and
philosophy and especially invite presentations of corpus-based,
experimental, and typological results.

References:

Anand, Pranav & Hacquard, Valentine. 2013. Epistemics and attitudes.
Semantics and Pragmatics 6(8): 1–59.

Giannakidou, Anastasia & Mari, Alda. 2021. Truth and Veridicality in
Grammar and Thought. The University of Chicago Press.

Heim, Irene. 1992. Presupposition projection and the semantics of
attitude verbs. Journal of Semantics 9: 183–221.

Koev, Todor. 2019. Strong beliefs, weak commitments. In: M. Teresa
Espinal, Elena Castroviejo, Manuel Leonetti, Louise McNally & Cristina
Real-Puigdollers (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Vol. 2,
1–18. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del
Vallès).

Liefke, Kristina & Werning, Markus. 2021. Experiential imagination and
the inside/outsidedistinction. In: Naoaki Okazaki, Katsutoshi Yada,
Ken Satoh & Koji Mineshima (eds.), New Frontiers in AI. LNCS.
Springer, 96–112.

Montague, Michelle. 2007. Against Propositionalism. Nous 41(3):
503–518.

Müller, Kalle. 2020. Perception verbs and finite complement clauses.
In: Christopher Piñón & Laurent Roussarie, Empirical Issues in Syntax
and Semantics 13, 55–79. Paris, CSSP.

Özyıldız, Deniz. 2021. The Event Structure of Attitudes. University of
Massachusetts Amherst PhD dissertation.

Villalta, Elisabeth. 2008. Mood and gradability: an investigation of
the subjunctive mood in Spanish. Linguistics & Philosophy 31: 467–522.

Zimmermann, Ede. 2006. Knowledge and desire from a German perspective.
In: Torgrim Solstad, Atle Grønn & Dag Haug (eds.), A Festschrift for
Kjell Johan Sæbø, 211–223. Universitetet i Oslo

Call for Papers:

Deadline for abstract submission: 14 August, 2023
Notification of acceptance until: 10 September, 2023

Submissions to the workshop must be anonymous and must not reveal the
identities of the authors in any form.
Abstracts should fit two pages (letter size or A4 paper, 2.54cm or 1
inch margins on all sides, 12 point font, Times New Roman), with an
additional third page used exclusively for the following elements:
references (obligatory), large figures or tables, as many lines as
there are lines of glosses and translations in non-English glossed
examples. Examples (glossed or not) should be interspersed in the
text, rather than collected at the end. Submission should be made via
EasyAbs: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/DeCompAtt

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