26.5635, Confs: Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-5635. Fri Dec 18 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.5635, Confs: Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:59:24
From: Nicole Gotzner [nicole.gotzner at googlemail.com]
Subject: Disjunction Days: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Disjunction

 
Disjunction Days: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Disjunction 

Date: 02-Jun-2016 - 03-Jun-2016 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Nicole Gotzner 
Contact Email: nicole.gotzner at googlemail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Disjunction Days: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction 

Date: 2-3 June 2016

Conference venue: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany

Organizers: Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland and Maribel Romero

Invited speakers: Stephen Crain and Maria Aloni

Description:
The goal of the workshop is to bring together theoretical and experimental perspectives on disjunction. Topics of interest include the following:

- Inclusive, exclusive disjunction and scalar implicatures
- Ignorance, speaker knowledge manipulations and the epistemic step
- Free choice disjunction
- Disjunction and Hurford’s constraint
- Alternative questions and exhaustivity
- The acquisition and processing of disjunction
- Crosslinguistic work on the diversity of disjunction markers
- Historical work on language change affecting disjunction markers 






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