29.5091, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:56:25
From: jacopo romoli [jacopo.romoli at gmail.com]
Subject: Asymmetries in Language: Presuppositions and Beyond

 
Full Title: Asymmetries in Language: Presuppositions and Beyond 
Short Title: AiL 

Date: 01-Jul-2019 - 03-Jul-2019
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Jacopo Romoli
Meeting Email: jacopo.romoli at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.xprag.de/?page_id=7160 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

The goal of our workshop is to bring together researchers working on order
effects arising from incremental interpretation, in particular in connection
with presupposition projection and related phenomena, such as redundancy
effects, epistemic modals, and anaphora, through theoretical, experimental,
and/or cross-linguistic perspectives (full workshop description can be found
here: https://www.xprag.de/?page_id=7160).

Linguistic utterances are processed incrementally as they unfold, resulting in
a temporal asymmetry between the information coming before and after in a
given expression. But are the observed asymmetries merely a superficial aspect
of language use, or do they play a direct role in linguistic knowledge and
representations? This bears on the general issue of how linguistic knowledge
and other cognitive faculties interact. An important case study on potential
order effects is that of presupposition. Traditional theories posit an
asymmetry in the processing of presupposition: in particular, presuppositions
must be supported by material that precedes the trigger, as in (1-a), not
material that follows the trigger, as in (1-b):

a. Mary used to come to class and she stopped coming to class.
b. #Mary stopped coming to class and she used to come to class.

However, as theorists like Rothschild (2008) have pointed out, such contrasts
may (in part) be due to independent factors, like redundancy constraints;
likewise, as Schlenker (2008) has observed, they could reflect violable
processing constraints rather than being hard-wired. The effect also may vary
across connectives, e.g. they may differ for conjunction vs. disjunction vs.
conditionals. Finally, data points such as (1) leave open whether linear order
or hierarchical order is behind the effect. Thus, the issue of asymmetry in
presupposition projection is far from resolved and calls for careful
investigation, experimental and theoretical.
Parallel questions can, and should, be asked about redundancy effects,
epistemic modals, anaphora and others. More in general, the domain of
investigation we are focusing on here is how incremental processing interacts
with different component of meanings.


Call for Papers:

We welcome abstracts for 30 minutes talks (20 + 10 discussion) which address
issues relevant to the workshop’s theme. Abstracts should be no longer than 2 
A4 pages, with a 12 pt font and 2.5 cm/1 inch margins. The abstracts must be
anonymous and not identify the authors. Authors may submit at most two
abstracts, at most one of which may be single-authored. Please submit via
EasyChair by 15 March 2019 at the latest.

EasyChair Link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ailpresupp2019

Invited Speakers:  

- Márta Abrusán (ENS, Paris)
- Sigrid Beck (Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen)
- Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University, Cambridge)
- Jakub Dotlačil (ILLC Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Clemens Mayr (Georg-August Universität Göttingen)
- Daniel Rothschild (UCL, London)
- Philippe Schlenker (ENS, Paris),
- Sonja Tiemann (Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen)




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