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Date: 05-Dec-2011
From: Arndt Riester [arndt.riester at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity


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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:40:55
From: Arndt Riester [arndt.riester at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity

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Full Title: Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity 

Date: 19-Mar-2012 - 20-Mar-2012
Location: Stuttgart, Germany 
Contact Person: Arndt Riester
Meeting Email: restrictivity at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
Web Site: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~arndt/restrictivity.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 06-Jan-2012 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on the Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity

Invited Speakers:

Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart)
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Universitetet i Oslo)
Jutta Hartmann (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)
Magdalena Kaufmann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Christopher Piñon (Université de Lille 3)
Paula Rubio Fernández (University College London)
Carla Umbach (Universität Osnabrück)

Workshop Description:

Restrictivity - and its counterpart non-restrictivity - understood as properties of natural language modifiers such as relative clauses, adjectives, adverbials, PP- or nominal adjuncts, are fundamental concepts in linguistic theory.

The question whether the modifier of a head is restrictive or not depends on and has an influence on various linguistic levels. It is reflected in syntax (pre- vs. postnominal modifier, attachment) and prosody (accent placement, prosodic phrasing), and it is constrained by semantic and pragmatic factors (concept type, information status, information structure, entailment properties, projective meaning).

Despite the omnipresence of modification in natural discourse and various attempts at defining (non-)restrictivity, there is still no consensual definition which unites all structural and meaning-related aspects, and which is robust enough to be used, for instance, in corpus annotation.

Specific Questions:

i. Does the notion of (non-)restrictivity apply to modifiers in indefinites in the same way as in definites? Why is it often difficult to decide whether the modifier of an indefinite is restrictive or not?

ii. What difficulties arise when (non-)restrictivity applies in the non-nominal domain, as with adverbials that modify events or states? What is common and different between (non-)restrictive modifiers in the verbal and the nominal domain?

iii. Restricting the denotation of a noun intuitively only makes sense if its extension comprises more than one individual. Therefore, restriction creates a set of alternatives. Is there an intrinsic connection between restrictivity and focus?

iv. (Non-)restrictivity is often correlated with structural (syntactic) differences. Is this generally the case or is it possible that sometimes restrictive and non-restrictive phrases share the same structure?

v. What does information structure theory tell us about the prosody of (non-)restrictive phrases?

vi. What are the connections and the differences between the restrictivity of (in-)definite expressions and the restrictivity of other quantifiers?

vii. It has been proposed that evaluative modifiers are less easily used as restrictive modifiers than non-evaluative ones. Do modifiers more generally display a lexical bias for either a restrictive or a non-restrictive reading, and if yes, what are the properties responsible for those kinds of bias?

Workshop organized by Fabienne Martin (Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik, SFB 732-B5, 'Polysemy in a Conceptual System') and Arndt Riester (Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, SFB 732-A1, 'Incremental Specification of Focus and Givenness in a Discourse Context') at the University of Stuttgart. 

Call for Papers:

We invite anonymous submissions for 30-minute presentations. Abstracts should be 1-2 pages in length, in pdf format, with a font size not smaller than 12pt and margins of at least 2.5cm. 

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 6 January 2012
Notification: 27 January 2012
Workshop: 19-20 March 2012





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