23.957, Confs: Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 23.957, Confs: Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: 23-Feb-2012
From: Arndt Riester [arndt.riester at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity

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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:35:08
From: Arndt Riester [arndt.riester at ims.uni-stuttgart.de]
Subject: Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity

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Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity 

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

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics 

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)
Bart Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

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. 

Venue: University of Stuttgart, Keplerstr. 17 (K II building, room 17.16)

Monday, March 19, 2012

10:00 
Registration

10:30 
Paula Rubio Fernández (University College London) & Bart Geurts 
(Nijmegen): Redundant Colour Adjectives in Object Requests

11:15 
Coffee

11:45 
Carla Umbach (Stuttgart/Osnabrück): Nonrestrictive Modification and 
Evaluativity

12:30 
Lunch

14:00 
Timothy Leffel (New York University): Nonrestrictive Adjectives and 
theTheory of Scalar Implicatures

14:45 
Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart): On the Syntactic Reality of Restrictive 
Adjectival Modification

15:30 
Coffee

16:00 
Arndt Riester (Stuttgart): To Restrict is to Focus

16:45 
Cécile Meier (Frankfurt): Swiss German Relative Clauses

17:30 
End

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

9:30
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Oslo): (Non)Restrictiveness from a 
Discourse Perspective

10:15 
Coffee

10:45 
Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University): ''Nonrestrictive'' Universal 
Quantifier: the Case of Japanese Dare-mó

11:30 
Magdalena Kaufmann (Göttingen): t.b.a.

12:15 
Lunch

13:45 
Jutta Hartmann (Tübingen): (Non)Restrictivity in It-cleft Sentences

14:30 
Christopher Piñón (Lille): t.b.a.

15:15 
End

To register for this event, please send an email to: 
restrictivity at ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Registration fee EUR 40, to be paid on site.

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