34.2833, Calls: SLE workshop on Mismatches in Information Structure

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Subject: 34.2833, Calls: SLE workshop on Mismatches in Information Structure

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Date: 28-Sep-2023
From: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [michaelyoshitaka.erlewine at helsinki.fi]
Subject: SLE workshop on Mismatches in Information Structure


Full Title: SLE workshop on Mismatches in Information Structure

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
Meeting Email: michaelyoshitaka.erlewine at helsinki.fi

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2023

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for a workshop on Mismatches in Information
Structure (organized by Silvio Cruschina and Michael Yoshitaka
Erlewine), to be held as part of the 57th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguisica Europaea, hosted by the University of Helsinki,
21–24 August 2024. Preliminary abstracts of 300 words must be received
by 10 November 2023, to be included in the workshop proposal. See
submission instructions below.

Workshop description
Information structure concerns how linguistic expressions are
organized in consideration of the interlocutors’ mental representation
of the discourse and their communicative intent (see, e.g., Halliday
1967, Chafe 1976, Prince 1981, Lambrecht 1994, Krifka 2008). Language
users employ various morphosyntactic and prosodic/phonological
strategies to convey information in an appropriate manner for the
given conversational situation, reflecting a sensitivity to
information-structural notions such as focus and topic, among others.

Linguistic strategies for encoding particular information structural
notions sometimes exhibit mismatches, especially at the interfaces
between different modules of grammar. For instance, a particular
constituent that serves semantically and pragmatically as the focus or
topic may nonetheless not bear the expected prosodic, morphological,
or syntactic reflex in a given language or in a specific environment.
The possibility and shape of such mismatches may inform the linguistic
architecture that allows for apparent grammatical reference to
information-structural notions.

The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together linguists
working on mismatches in information structure. The questions
addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to:

–       What sorts of mismatches are attested between prosody,
morphosyntax, semantics, and discourse, in individual languages or
cross-linguistically?
–       Are some apparent information-structural mismatches in fact
best described as not involving a mismatch, through improved empirical
description and/or revised theoretical notions? (See e.g. Krifka
1998.)
–       What sorts of grammatical processes and pressures can impede
an expected information-structural expression?
–       When and how do utterances violate a language’s
information-structural defaults (e.g. expected topic–comment
structure, given–new partition, default prosody)?
–       How cross-linguistically uniform are the semantics and
pragmatics of particular information-structural devices?
–       How do information-structural notions such as topic and focus
line up with other, overlapping notions such as given, new, contrast,
and surprise (mirativity)?
–       What do information-structural devices and their mismatches
teach us about the cognitive representation of discourse and mental
states? (See e.g. Roberts 1992, Büring 2003, Beaver & Clark 2008.)
–       How do language users resolve potential ambiguities and
mismatches in information structure in interaction and/or in on-line
processing?
–       How do child and adult grammars differ in their use and
interpretation of information-structural strategies? (See e.g. Crain
et al 1992.) How are such strategies and their attested mismatches
learned?
–       Are there typological generalizations regarding the shapes and
sorts of attested information-structural mismatches? What do such
generalizations teach us about the architecture of grammar? (See e.g.
Büring 2009, 2015, Branan & Erlewine 2023.)

Submission instructions
We invite submissions for 20-minute talks that contribute to the
description, discussion, and analysis of information-structure
mismatches in any language or in a comparative perspective.
Preliminary abstracts (300 words, as DOC file) should be sent to the
workshop organizers (silvio.cruschina at helsinki.fi,
michaelyoshitaka.erlewine at helsinki.fi) by 10 November 2023. If the
workshop proposal is successful, prospective presenters will be asked
to submit a 500 word abstract directly to SLE by 15 January 2024.



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