28.3196, Calls: Gen Ling, Semantics/Norway

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Subject: 28.3196, Calls: Gen Ling, Semantics/Norway

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:15:43
From: Alexandra Spalek [a.a.spalek at ilos.uio.no]
Subject: Workshop on Approaches to Coercion and Polysemy

 
Full Title: Workshop on Approaches to Coercion and Polysemy 

Date: 20-Nov-2017 - 21-Nov-2017
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact Person: Alexandra Spalek
Meeting Email: a.a.spalek at ilos.uio.no
Web Site: http://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/theme/syntax-and-semantics/events/conferences/workshop-on-approaches-to-coercion-and-polysemy.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 08-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

The phenomenon of coercion, where the interpretation of an expression seems to
change depending on another expression that it stands in a predication or
modification relationship with (e.g. ‘Fred began a book / began an essay /
finished his drink / finished the kitchen / is a good boy / is a good pianist
/ froze the water / froze the bottle / has red hair / eats red meat / drinks
coffee / drank two coffees’) is widespread and has often been remarked on
within formal semantics, pragmatics and computational linguistics (Asher 2011,
Egg 2003, Nunberg 1979, Piñago&Deo 2016, Pustejovsky 1995, Recanati 2004).
However, it remains not well-understood, especially as regards the following
questions:

- To what extent do these examples represent a unified phenomenon, and what
constrains the availability of these kinds of enriched interpretations?
- What do these examples tell us about the nature of the lexicon, and the
nature of predication?
- To what extent do we need lexical meaning to be context-dependent?
- To what extent do we need a more sophisticated compositional system than is
commonly assumed in formal semantics?
- How can the coerced interpretation be implemented?

We wish to create a forum that will enable comparison of lexical,
compositional and pragmatic approaches to these questions, and interaction
between people coming from formal semantics, pragmatics and computational
linguistics backgrounds.  We are particularly interested in the interaction
between coercion and the wider issue of polysemy, where a word may have more
than one closely-related meaning.

Hoping for a rich interaction between people coming from formal semantics,
pragmatics and computational linguistics backgrounds the invited speakers will
be:

Nicholas Asher (CNRS/IRIT)
Robyn Carston (UCL)
Robin Cooper (University of Gothenburg) 


2nd Call for Papers:

We are particularly interested in the interaction between coercion and the
wider issue of polysemy, where a word may have more than one closely-related
meaning and invite submissions for 30-minute talks plus 10 minutes for
discussion. Abstracts are to be uploaded via EasyChair, at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copo2017. Abstracts must be anonymous,
in PDF format, no more than two A4 pages long including any references, in a
font size no less then 12pt, and with margins of no less than 1 inch / 2.5 cm.

Important dates:
Submission deadline: 8 August 2017
Notification of acceptance: 4 October 2017
Workshop dates: 20-21 November 2017




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