35.549, Calls: Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics

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Subject: 35.549, Calls: Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics

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Date: 15-Feb-2024
From: Lena Baunaz [lena.baunaz at univ-cotedazur.fr]
Subject: Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics

Full Title: Events. New Work on Their Ontology and Semantics
Short Title: ENWOS

Date: 18-Jun-2024 - 19-Jun-2024
Location: Nice (université Côte d'Azur, Laboratoire BCL: Bases,
Corpus, Langage / CNRS), France
Contact Person: Riccardo Baratella
Meeting Email: enwosworkshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/enwos

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

Call Deadline: 30-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

Events (in the broad sense) play a fundamental role in our interaction
with the word: actions, events, processes, states are crucial
components of the reality as we represent it. Research on events
comprises disciplines as diverse as natural language semantics, the
syntax-semantic interface, analytic metaphysics, applied ontology and
conceptual modeling.
Events have come to play a central role in natural language since
Davidson’s highly influential proposal and has to a great range of
developments including, in its Neo-Davidsonian version in the
syntax-semantic interface. There are a range of challenges to its have
received little attention, such as the distinction between events and
acts, events and abstract states, events and situations (as
truthmakers). Moroever there are alternatives to Davidsonian events
semantics that have been proposed, but ask for further developments,
such as truthmaker semantics, force semantics and radical
decomposition of verbs in syntax. Finally, there are a great range of
interesting issues regarding events and syntactic structure, including
the decomposition of event predicates in syntactic structure and the
relevance of cartography for event semantics.
Recently, also the metaphysics of events have seen renewed interest.
Several issues have been addressed such as that concerning nature of,
and the internal structure of, processes and events, the related issue
that concerns the modal profile and the essential properties of events
(and whether these features differ from the ones possessed by
processes), the question of whether a theory concerning these entities
has a descriptive or prescriptive import, as well as the issue
concerning the relations between events, dispositions, and causation,
and that concerning the nature of negative events and actions.
Finally, the notion of event is pervasive and play a key role in
applied ontology and conceptual modeling. It is a general category of
the most widespread foundational ontologies such as UFO, DOLCE, and
BFO. On the one hand, these ontologies recently provided insightful
accounts concerning the nature of events, their part-whole structure,
and their difference from, e.g., situations, states, and processes. On
the other hand, the notion of events played a key role in elucidating
notions such as those of prevention, risk, production, money, and many
others.
This workshop aims to bring together new research on events from the
different perspectives.

Confirmed speakers:
Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento)
Christian Kanzian (University of Innsbruck)
Claudia Maienborn (University of Tübingen)
Friederike Moltmann (BCL, Université Côte d’Azur)
Riccardo Baratella (Genoa University)
Ludger Jansen (PTH Brixen College – University of Rostock)
Michal Starke (Masaryk University)

Conference Fees: 60€ regular; 40€ students/unemployed
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/enwos
Informal queries: enwosworkshop at gmail.com

Venue: Laboratoire BCL: Bases, Corpus, Langage / CNRS
Université Côte d’Azur, Campus Saint Jean d’Angely
Bâtiment de l’Horloge, 25 avenue François Mitterrand, Nice

Organizers: Nikos Angelopoulos, Riccardo Baratella, Lena Baunaz,
Ludger Jansen, Friederike Moltmann, Kalle Müller

References:
R. Casati and Varzi: ‘Events’. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(online)

R. Casati and A. Varzi (eds.): Events. Darthmouth Publ. Company, 1996

F. Moltmann: ‘Events in Contemporary Semantics’ (forthcoming), in M.
Cassina et al. (eds): 21st-Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the
Analytic / Continental Divide. Edinburgh UP.

Truswell, R. (ed.): Oxford Handbook of Event Structure. Oxford UP,
Oxford, 2019.

J. Higginbotham, F. Pianesi, A. Varzi (eds.): Speaking of Events.
Oxford UP, 2000.

S. Rothstein (ed.): Events and Grammar, Kluwer, 1998

A. Williams (2021): ‘Events in Semantics’. In P. Stalmaszscuk (ed.):
Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge UP.

Call for Papers:

If you want to contribute, please submit an abstract of approximately
1000 words suitable for a 30-minutes presentation that should be
prepared for blind review and include a cover page with the full name,
institution, and contact information. Abstracts should be sent in PDF
format to: enwosworkshop at gmail.com

Deadline for submission: 30 March 2024
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2024

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