35.195, Calls: After Before Clauses workshop

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Subject: 35.195, Calls: After Before Clauses workshop

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Date: 16-Jan-2024
From: Jérémy Pasquereau [jeremy.pasquereau at cnrs.fr]
Subject: After Before Clauses workshop


Full Title: After Before Clauses workshop
Short Title: ABC

Date: 14-Jun-2024 - 14-Jun-2024
Location: Nantes, France
Contact Person: Jérémy Pasquereau
Meeting Email: tripleaeleven.abc at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/triplea11-abc/home?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 29-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS &
Université de Nantes) will be hosting a thematic workshop on temporal
adjunct clauses, a.k.a. the After/Before Clauses workshop. The
conference will take place in person in Nantes (France) on 14 June
2024.

This workshop addresses the question of the distribution and
interpretation of tense in temporal adverbial clauses (henceforth
TACs) and, in particular, in so-called before- and after-clauses.

The invited speaker is Toshiyuki Ogihara (University of Washington).

While it would seem that after-clauses typically serve to express
subsequence of the eventuality described in the main clause relative
to that in the after-clause, it has long been known that
before-clauses do not simply express the converse relation (Anscombe
1964, Heinämäki 1978), since  before-clauses tend to be non-veridical
and trigger specific pragmatic inferences.

In languages that display temporal connectives such as before and
after, core questions such as quantificational force or constraints on
the  relative ordering  of the described  eventualities in the main
vs. adjunct clause  have been made largely dependent on the semantics
of the connectives (Beaver & Condoravdi 2003, Condoravdi 2010), but
cross-linguistic inquiries show that languages display other and more
complex strategies for ordering events since, in particular, languages
can lack temporal connectives such as before and after altogether
(Bohnemeyer 1988, Tonhauser 2015, Kubota, Lee, Smironova and
Tonhauser-2009, Ogihara 2022, a.o.).

Such cross-linguistic variation raises the question of the extent to
which TACs are comparable across languages with respect to their
semantics and the pragmatic inferences they trigger, and of how to
compositionally account for the temporal interpretation of TACs while
predicting the range of possible variation in their morphosyntax  and
in  the distribution and interpretation of subordinate tense across
languages.

The ABC workshop will immediately follow the TripleA 11 workshop,
which will be held in Nantes on 11-13 June 2024. All participants in
the ABC workshop are invited to attend and/or contribute to TripleA 11
(see TripleA 11 workshop call for papers).

The extended submission deadline is 29 January 2024 at 23:59pm.
Authors will be notified of abstract decisions around mid March 2024.

We welcome contributions on topics such as, but not limited to:
·       Cross-linguistic variation in the semantics or
syntax/semantics mapping  of temporal adverbial clauses, and temporal
clauses more generally
·       The semantics of temporal connectives
·       Evidence for the meaning/presence of tense morphemes from
temporal adverbial clauses (in particular, in so-called tenseless
languages)
·       Sequence of tense phenomena in temporal adverbial clauses (as
opposed to complements or other types of subordinate clauses) —in
particular, in languages that lack either overt (subordinate) tense,
and/or temporal connectives.
·       (Non-)veridicality of before- and after-clauses and pragmatic
reasoning : what role do implicatures play in the  interpretation of
before-clauses?



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