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Subject: 31.2196, Calls: Morphology, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:04:07
From: Kathairna Schaebbicke [katharina.schaebbicke at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation - Workshop at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Freiburg

 
Full Title: Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation - Workshop at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Freiburg 
Short Title: Negation at DGfS2021 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Katharina Schaebbicke
Meeting Email: Katharina
Web Site: https://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/personen/personen-a-z/lehrende-komplett/katharina-schaebbicke/dgfs-workshop-empirical-approaches-to-canonical-and-non-canonical-uses-of-negation 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

Invited speakers: Carolin Dudschig (U. Tübingen), Hedde Zeijlstra (U.
Göttingen)

Organisers: Katharina Schaebbicke, Heiko Seeliger (U. Köln)

At first glance, negation seems to be a straightforward phenomenon: negating a
sentence is as simple as embedding a proposition under a negation operator and
thus reversing its truth value. A closer look at the phenomenon of negation,
however, reveals a vast field of negation-related phenomena, not all of which
can be captured by truth-functional meaning. Non-canonical uses of negation
include, for example, metalinguistic negation and expletive negation. The
topic of negation has been studied extensively from a theoretical perspective.
We are, however, only beginning to understand the particular characteristics
of non-canonical negation. Furthermore, there seems to be a gap when it comes
to evaluating theoretical models of negation empirically. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together researchers who work on different uses of
nega­tion, and who focus on quantitative methods to study canonical as well as
non-canonical uses of negation. Employing corpus evidence and experimental
methods to re-evaluate current mod­els of negation-related phenomena should
help us refine those models and gain a deeper under­standing of the function
of negation in grammar.

The areas of research that this workshop focuses on include, but are not
limited to, empirical approaches to propositional and non-propositional
negation, the function of negation in differ­ent speech acts (in questions vs.
assertions, for example), the contribution of negation to bias in questions,
the interaction of negative polarity items and negative questions, the syntax
of nega­tion, and the function and cross-linguistic distribution of high
negation in polar questions.

In order to get a comprehensive view on negation – both concerning its
grammar, and concern­ing the processing of negation –, we invite researchers
who work on negation from the perspective of semantics, pragmatics,
(morpho)syntax, phonology, and psycholinguistics to contribute to bridging the
gap between theory and empirical models in negation-related phenomena.


Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations (plus 10-minute
discussions). Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page in length, excluding
references. Graphs may also be placed on the second page. Submissions should
be made as anonymous PDFs.

Please note that based on the DGfS regulations, one may not present at more
than one workshop at the conference while being able to co-author more than
one presentation. While we hope that the conference can take place as planned,
there might be changes due to Covid-19.

Please submit abstracts electronically in PDF format by August 31, 2020 at 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=negationdgfs2021




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