31.2721, Calls: Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 31.2721, Calls: Cog Sci, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:17:14
From: Mingya Liu [mingya.liu at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives

 
Full Title: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives (workshop at the 43rd Annual Conference of the DGfS) 
Short Title: SPOCC at DGfS2021 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: Freiburg i.B., Germany 
Contact Person: Mingya Liu
Meeting Email: mingya.liu at hu-berlin.de
Web Site: https://www.xprag.de/?page_id=8989 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives (DGfS2021)
The SPOCC at DGfS2021 workshop will be part of the 43rd Annual Conference of the
German Linguistic Society (DGfS-Jahrestagung 2021:
https://dgfs2021.uni-freiburg.de/). The conference will take place on February
24-26, 2021, in Freiburg/Germany. 

Conditionals are a widely studied topic in linguistics and cognitive science.
One debate in the formal literature of semantics and pragmatics is concerned
with the meaning contribution of conditional connectives (CCs). According to
the restrictor analysis (Kratzer 1986/1991), English if is an operator with no
semantics on its own and if-clauses are used to restrict overt or covert modal
operators or generic frequency operators. This analysis has inspired many
insightful follow-up studies through which it becomes clear that the
interpretation of conditional sentences and their semantic/pragmatic
properties are subject to a process of semantic and pragmatic modulation.
However, the modulating role of CCs in conditional sentences remains far from
clear. In order to study the semantics and pragmatics of CCs, especially how
they modulate the interpretation of conditionals in interaction with narrow
and broad context, the SPOCC Project (https://www.xprag.de/?page_id=4780)
focuses on the following three empirical domains at the semantics-pragmatics
interface: 

- Biconditionals and conditional perfection
- Non-at-issue meanings
- Polarity items and discourse particles

Logical connectives and operators in natural language have been a key
empirical domain of
study in theoretical and psycholinguistics. However, CCs are quite
understudied, especially in comparison to the well-studied negation,
disjunction and quantifiers. The workshop aims to bring together current
studies that address the distribution, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of CCs
in relation to narrow linguistic or broad pragmatic contexts across languages
(on but not restricted to the questions listed above), as well as studies on
conditionals in general. We welcome contributions using different (e.g.,
formal semantic/pragmatic, diachronic, experimental, corpus-linguistic)
methods. 

For more details of the workshop description and a list of the related
references, please check the workshop site: https://www.xprag.de/?page_id=8989


2nd Call for Papers: 

We invite abstract submissions addressing the distribution, syntax, semantics
and pragmatics of conditional connectives in relation to narrow linguistic or
broad pragmatic contexts across languages, or related aspects of conditionals
in general. We welcome contributions using different (e.g., formal,
diachronic, experimental, corpus-linguistic, computational) methods. 

- Abstracts should be anonymous, at most 2 pages long with 2.5cm margins on
all sides, and must use Time New Roman font of at least 11 points. References
should be listed on the first page, with data and diagrams on the second page.
Each author may submit up to one single authored abstract and one joint
abstract. Please submit abstracts electronically in PDF format by September
15, 2020 (notification date: 05 October 2020): 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spoccdgfs2021 

- Accepted abstracts will be assigned for 30-minute oral presentations
(including 10 minutes of discussion) in English. 

- A selection of the accepted presentations will be invited to submit a short
paper (3000- 4000 words plus references or other supplementary materials) for
publication through peer review within the open Special Issue of Linguistics
Vanguard: Natural Language Conditionals and Conditional Reasoning: 

https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/lingvan/5/s3/lingvan.5.issue-s3.xml 

If you are interested in this publication option, please add ''SI:'' in your
abstract title. 

- A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for
accepted contributions by DGfS members without/with low income. 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.




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