35.1946, Calls: 3rd Workshop on Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language Semantics

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Subject: 35.1946, Calls: 3rd Workshop on Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language Semantics

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Date: 30-Jun-2024
From: Nina Haslinger [haslinger at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language Semantics


Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Gaps and Imprecision in Natural Language
Semantics

Date: 08-Oct-2024 - 09-Oct-2024
Location: Leibniz-ZAS Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Nina Haslinger
Meeting Email: gapsandimprecision at gmail.com
Web Site: https://gaps-and-imprecision.netlify.app/

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to bring together semanticists and psycholinguists
interested in: 1) distinguishing or unifying different gap phenomena
in natural language semantics (homogeneity, presuppositions, gaps
induced by exhaustification, truth-value gaps in vague predication)
and 2) distinguishing or unifying different classes of imprecise
expressions, i.e. expressions whose semantic “strength” co-varies with
the QUD or discourse goal, and investigating the relation between
imprecision and other forms of context-dependent interpretation.

The first two editions of our workshop series approached these
questions through the lens of homogeneity and non-maximality in plural
predication (and were advertised under the acronym HNM for this
reason). This third edition of the workshop series is meant to address
the more general issues below:

- Which, if any, gap phenomena in natural language (homogeneity,
presuppositions, implicatures, vagueness gaps, etc) ought to receive a
unified account?

- How should non-maximality and superficially similar phenomena such
as numeral imprecision be modeled; in particular, should there be a
unified approach to imprecision phenomena in general, regardless of
whether or not they involve gaps?

We welcome theoretical and experimental perspectives on semantic gaps
and imprecision within and across languages (including work on
processing and acquisition). Specifically, relevant research questions
include, but are not limited to the following:

- Which gap phenomena ought to be unified, which ought to be
distinguished? In particular, how does homogeneity relate to
presuppositions and implicatures?

- How can we derive differences and parallels between the projection
patterns of different gap phenomena?

- Should we aim for a unified account of different imprecision
phenomena (e.g. plural predication and numeral imprecision), and if
so, how can we account for any differences in their pragmatics and
embedding patterns?

- Several phenomena outside plural semantics (e.g. summative
predication, conditionals, neg-raising modals) have been analyzed by
analogy with plural homogeneity. To what extent is this analogy
justified?

- Which instances of imprecision – in the sense of QUD-dependent
variation between stronger and weaker truth conditions – do we find
beyond the standard examples of plurals and numerals, and which of
them should receive a unified semantic analysis?

- How can the recent debates on homogeneity and the formal semantics
of imprecision phenomena (including outside the plural domain, e.g.
imprecise numerals) inform each other?

- Cross-linguistic research supporting or challenging generalizations
about homogeneity and other gap phenomena

- Imprecise expressions and truth-value gap phenomena
cross-linguistically, particularly in understudied languages

- Homogeneity, imprecision and other truth-value gap phenomena in
acquisition

- Psycholinguistic research comparing the judgments and/or processing
signature of the various gap phenomena

Call for Papers:

Submit to EasyAbs at
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/GINLS/

There will be two talk categories: full talks (40 minutes) and squibs
(20 minutes). In the submission form, you will need to indicate
whether you want your submission to be considered for either of the
two formats or both.

The main text of the abstract should be at most 3 pages (Times New
Roman, 12pt, 2.5cm margin). References, figures and glossed examples
may be added on additional pages exceeding the 3-page limit. Abstracts
should be anonymized and submitted in PDF format.

For a longer version of the conference description and call for
abstracts, see https://gaps-and-imprecision.netlify.app/call/.



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