35.688, FYI: STAL Seminar, MARCH 5, 14.30 CET: Eleonora Orlando & Andres Saab, "Slurs: A Syntactically Grounded Ambiguity"

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Subject: 35.688, FYI: STAL Seminar, MARCH 5, 14.30 CET: Eleonora Orlando & Andres Saab, "Slurs: A Syntactically Grounded Ambiguity"

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Date: 28-Feb-2024
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: STAL Seminar, MARCH 5, 14.30 CET: Eleonora Orlando & Andres Saab, "Slurs: A Syntactically Grounded Ambiguity"


The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to an
online talk by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab (CONICET/IIF-SADAF &
University of Buenos Aires) entitled "Slurs: A Syntactically Grounded
Ambiguity". The talk will take place on MARCH 5, 14:30-16:00 Central
European Time, and is part of the of STAL network seminar series.
Below you can find the abstract of the talk.
If you want to participate, please write to stalnetwork at gmail.com for
the Zoom link.
All welcome!

ABSTRACT:
In this talk we ground an intuitive distinction between two
interpretations of slur-words on the different syntactic configuration
of the sentences containing them. We take this phenomenon to give some
support to a dualist semantics according to which slurs have both a
representational or truth-conditional and an expressive or
use-conditional meaning dimension. The talk has the following
structure. In the first part, we point to an intuitive ambiguity in
certain sentences containing slurs. Then, we argue for the grammatical
source of a distinction between predicative/argumental and epithetic
readings of those sentences by defending a certain grammatical
approach to epithets, according to which they can be assimilated to
free pronouns. Finally, we provide different syntactic tests for
distinguishing epithetic from predicative occurrences of slur-words,
and we introduce some lexical restrictions on epithetic occurrences.

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics
                     Syntax




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