35.872, Calls: Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators

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Subject: 35.872, Calls: Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators

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Date: 11-Mar-2024
From: Clemens Mayr [clemens.steiner-mayr1 at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators


Full Title: Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators
Short Title: SARO

Date: 27-Jun-2024 - 29-Jun-2024
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Clemens Mayr
Meeting Email: clemens.steiner-mayr1 at uni-goettingen.de

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 15-May-2024

Meeting Description:

The focus of this workshop is on grammatical operators which, in some
sense or others, mimic interpretive effects that could be, and have
been, considered inferences drawn from pragmatic reasoning on the
speech act performer. Examples include "illocutionary operators" such
as ASSERT, ASK, and COMMAND (Ross, 1970; Lakoff, 1970; Sadock, 1974;
Krifka, 1995, 2001, 2020; Miyagawa, 2022), the "exhaustification
operator" EXH (Fox 2007) and its presuppositional variant PEX (Bassi
et al. 2021), the "belief operator" K (Meyer 2013), the
"presupposition accommodation operator" A (Beaver & Krahmer, 2001;
Fox, 2013), the "answer operator" ANS (Heim, 1994; Dayal, 1996), the
"non-redundancy operator" R (Blumberg & Goldstein, 2021), and the
"minimal likelihood operator" EVEN (Crnic 2014, 2020), among others.
We will call such operators "speech act related operators", short
SAROs. The strategy of postulating SAROs has proved successful and,
also, is enjoying increasing popularity. But the fact that they
typically have no phonemic structure has raised skepticism among a
number of researchers about their syntactic reality. See, for example,
Bergen et al. (2016) for arguments against EXH, Chatain & Schlenker
(2023) for arguments against A and R, Condoravdi & Lauer (2012) and
Lauer (2013) for arguments against illocutionary operators such as
ASSERT, ASK, and COMMAND. Our impression is that an overview of
arguments for and against SAROs is lacking, and that a forum which
gives researchers from both sides of the debate a chance to address
specific and general questions about the dividing line between
semantics and pragmatics is called for.

The Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators, which we are announcing,
is intended to provide such a forum. Each talk in the workshop will
consist of (i) a 50-minute presentation, (ii) a 20-minute commentary,
and (iii) a 20-minute Q&A session. At the end of the workshop, there
will be a panel discussion. Presenters and commentators are by
invitation only and include Maria Aloni, Kenny Chatain, Cleo
Condoravdi, Luka Crnic, Veneeta Dayal, Maria-Teresa Espinal, Kai von
Fintel, Danny Fox, Virginia Hill, Roni Katzir, Manfred Krifka, Jess
Law, Marie-Christine Meyer, Shigeru Miyagawa, Andreea Nicolae,
Guillermo Del Pinal, Paul Portner, Sophie Repp, Uli Sauerland,
Philippe Schlenker, Benjamin Spector, Andreas Trotzke, and Martina
Wiltschko. In addition there will be poster presentations.

The workshop is jointly funded and organized by the ERC project Speech
Acts in Grammar and Discourse (SPAGAD) at the Leibniz-Zentrum
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft and the DFG project Exceptive-additive
Constructions at the University of Göttingen. It will take place on
June 27–29, 2024, at the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
(Address: Pariser Str. 1, 10719 Berlin, Germany).

Call for Papers:

As we plan to have at least one poster session, we are calling for
abstracts for poster presentations. We especially encourage graduate
students and junior researchers to submit abstracts. Topics that are
welcome include, but are not limited to, the following:

– The inventory of SAROs
– Arguments for and against SAROs
– Constraints on the distribution of SAROs
– Syntactic, morphological, and intonational reflexes of SAROs
– Conceptual underpinnings of SAROs
– The conspicuous silence of SAROs across languages
– The variation in meanings of SAROs across languages
– The role of "pragmatics"

Please send your abstract to saro.berlin.2024 at gmail.com before
15.05.2024.



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