34.1996, Calls: Workshop - Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Definiteness

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Subject: 34.1996, Calls: Workshop - Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Definiteness

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Date: 21-Jun-2023
From: Ion Giurgea [giurgeaion at yahoo.com]
Subject: Workshop - Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Definiteness


Full Title: Workshop - Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of
Definiteness

Date: 08-Dec-2023 - 09-Dec-2023
Location: Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, 5-7 Str. Edgar Quinet,
Romania
Contact Person: Ion Giurgea
Meeting Email: giurgeaion at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 05-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

The “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the
Romanian Academy and the Faculty of Letters organize a workshop on the
semantics and syntax of definite expressions, within the 23rd
International Conference of the Department of Linguistics of the
University of Bucharest.

Call for Papers:

Date: December 8-9, 2023
Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, 5-7 Str. Edgar
Quinet, Bucharest, Romania, and online (hybrid)

Keynote speakers:
Manfred Krifka, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Alexandra Simonenko, Ghent University
Radek Šimík, Charles University and Institute of Czech Language and
Theory of Communication, Prague

Convenors: Ion Giurgea (giurgeaion at yahoo.com)
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (sorin.carmen2 at gmail.com)

Registration fee:  250 RON (50 €);
125 RON (25 €) for online participation and for PhD students


We invite submissions for 30 minutes presentations (including 5-10
minutes for discussion) on any topic related to the semantics of
definiteness and its morphosyntactic realizations. We encourage papers
addressing the syntax-semantics interface, understudied languages,
comparative issues, and the diachrony of definiteness marking. Topics
include:

- distinctions between various types of definite expressions, as
reflected in distribution (e.g. the use of definites in predicative
position, see Cheng et al. 2017) or the use of special forms (strong
vs. weak articles, see Schwarz 2009, 2019, Ortmann 2014, Bernstein et
al. 2021)
- the analysis of demonstratives, in particular, how they differ from
definite articles, whether they can be semantically decomposed into a
definite article and other pieces of structure (see Simonenko 2014) or
rather involve an additional argument (see e.g. King 2001, Elbourne
2008, Ahn 2019, 2022) or just an enriched meaning (see e.g. Roberts
2002, Wolter 2006). How does the decompositional analysis  correlate
with syntactic structure across languages, where we find both
co-occurrence and complementary distribution between demonstratives
and definite articles?
- the analysis of definite pronouns (personal pronouns and
demonstratives), in particular, the correspondence between pronouns
and determiners with overt nouns: Should pronouns be analyzed as
determiners followed by noun ellipsis (see e.g. Elbourne 2005, 2013,
Sauerland 2007, Patel-Grosz & Grosz 2017, a.o.), or are they ambiguous
between structures with no N-component and structures with N-ellipsis
(Jenks & Konate 2022)? Does the determiner of 3rd person pronouns
correspond to the definite article (Wolter 2006, Patel-Grosz & Grosz
2017) or is it closer to demonstratives (Ahn 2019, Blumberg 2021)?
- the interaction between definiteness and differential argument
marking (see e.g. differential object marking in languages with
articles such as Spanish and Romanian, but also in languages without
articles such as Turkish)
- the analysis of weak definites (Carlson & Sussman 2005, Carlson et
al. 2006): in spite of a rich amount of data, there is still
disagreement with respect to the semantic analysis of these weakly
referring definite phrases (see Aguilar-Guevara 2014, Aguilar-Guevara
& Zwarts 2010, Schwarz 2014, Krifka & Modarresi 2016, a.o.).
- the diachrony of definiteness marking and its implications for the
analysis of languages without articles: it has been noticed that the
anaphoric article is the first stage in the development of the
definite article; this observation raises several issues: Why should
languages without articles first develop an anaphoric article? Why
does this system often evolve towards one with a generalized definite
article? Is the absence of definiteness marking in languages without
articles a matter of ambiguity or, rather, underspecification (see
e.g. Šimík & Demian 2020, who argue against a covert iota)?
Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 2 pages, including
examples and references, 2,5 cm. margins, font size 12. The language
of the workshop is English.

Abstracts should be sent to colocviu.lingvistica.2023 at gmail.com,
specifying in the body of the message or in the title “workshop
definiteness”.



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