34.1061, Calls: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites

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Subject: 34.1061, Calls: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites

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From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [patricia.cabredo-hofherr at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites


Full Title: Workshop on the Semantics of Indefinites

Date: 21-Sep-2023 - 22-Sep-2023
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Meeting Email: patricia.cabredo-hofherr at cnrs.fr
Web Site: https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/jet-semantique-des-indefinis-worksho
p-semantics-indefinites

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Call Deadline: 31-May-2023

Meeting Description:

The semantics of indefinites has proven to be a fruitful field of
research in formal semantics. While indefinites were classically
analysed as quantified expressions, in the 1980s, Kamp and Heim showed
that the discourse properties of indefinites were at odds with this
analysis, proposing dynamic semantic models to explain the discourse
potential of indefinites.

In the last 20 years the study of focus phenomena and of the semantics
of questions led to a renewed interest in alternative-based semantics.
In this context, research on polarity items and free choice phenomena
has flourished. More recently, a growing body of research has
addressed the analysis of epistemic indefinites, examining
implicatures of indifference, ignorance and plurality contributed by
certain indefinites.

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions on any aspect of the semantics of indefinites,
including but not limited to the following questions:

-  What are the relationships between polarity-sensitivity, free
choice items and indefinites?
- What are the discourse properties of different types of indefinites?
- How is the distribution of indefinites impacted by the existence of
definite alternatives?
- How do indefinites interact with information structure?
- What is the variation found among epistemic indefinites?
- What distinguishes weak indefinites from strong indefinites?  How do
indefinites differ from weak definites and bare nouns?
- What is the diachronic development of indefinites?
- How do different notions of (non)specificity and (in)definiteness
play out in different languages?

Invited speakers:
Julia Pozas Loyo (Colegio de México)
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (LLF, CNRS & Paris Cité)
Lucia Tovena (LLF, U. Paris Cité)

For more information visit our website:
https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/workshop-semantics-indefinites-call-papers



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