35.1566, Calls: Special definites, demonstratives, and pronouns - THE 24 th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS: Approaches to Language: Data, Interpretations, Theories

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Date: 20-May-2024
From: Carmen Mîrzea Vasile [colocviu.lingvistica.2024 at gmail.com]
Subject: Special definites, demonstratives, and pronouns - THE 24 th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS: Approaches to Language: Data, Interpretations, Theories

Full Title: Workshop: Special definites, demonstratives, and pronouns
- THE 24 th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS:
Approaches to Language: Data, Interpretations, Theories
Short Title: CIDL24

Date: 16-Nov-2024 - 16-Nov-2024
Location: Bucharest and online, Romania
Contact Person: Monica Vasileanu
Meeting Email: colocviu.lingvistica.2024 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://litere.ro/cidl-en/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics;
Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

The “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the
Romanian
Academy and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest
organize a workshop on
special definites, demonstratives, and pronouns, within the 24th
International Conference of
the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest.
We invite submissions for 30 minutes presentations (including 5-10
minutes for
discussion) on any topic related to the semantics and syntax of
various types of definite
expressions, on demonstratives and their relation with the definite
article, and on the internal
structure and interpretation of definite pronouns (personal and
demonstrative pronouns).

Topics include:
• distinctions between various types of definite expressions, as
reflected in distribution
or semantics (e.g. the use of definites in predicative position, see
Cheng et al. 2017,
the use of definite articles in vocatives and with proper names, or
weak definites in the
sense of Carlson & Sussman 2005) or the use of special forms (strong
vs. weak articles,
see Schwarz 2009, 2019, Ortmann 2014, Bernstein et al. 2021); is there
evidence for
different types of definite articles or different underlying
structure, depending on the
semantic type of definite, even in languages where there are no formal
differences
(such as strong vs. weak articles or overt vs. null D)?
• the analysis of demonstratives, in particular, how they differ from
definite articles,
whether they can be semantically decomposed into a definite article
and other pieces
of structure (see Simonenko 2014) or rather involve an additional
argument (see e.g.
King 2001, Elbourne 2008, Ahn 2019, 2022) or just an enriched meaning
(see e.g.
Roberts 2002, Wolter 2006). How do anaphoric demonstratives differ
from anaphoric
definites? How do recognitional demonstratives differ from familiar
definites? How
does the decompositional analysis correlate with syntactic structure
across languages,
where we find both co-occurrence and complementary distribution
between
demonstratives and definite articles?
• the analysis of definite pronouns (personal pronouns and
demonstratives), in
particular, the correspondence between pronouns and determiners with
overt nouns:
should pronouns be analyzed as determiners followed by noun ellipsis
(see e.g.
Elbourne 2005, 2013, Sauerland 2007, Patel-Grosz & Grosz 2017, a.o.),
or are they
ambiguous between structures with no N-component and structures with
N-ellipsis
(Jenks & Konate 2022)? Does the determiner of 3rd person pronouns
correspond to the
definite article (Wolter 2006, Patel-Grosz & Grosz 2017) or is it
closer to
demonstratives (Ahn 2019, Blumberg 2021)? It is well-known that
languages use
various series of pronouns (weak, strong, demonstratives) depending on
the
accessibility or level of activation of the antecedent. How can this
be accounted for
within analyses which decompose pronouns into a definite D and a null
N-constituent
which may result from ellipsis?
For References, see the workshop website:
https://litere.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Workshop-3.pdf

Date: November 16, 2024
Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, 5-7 Edgar Quinet
St., Bucharest,
Romania, and online (hybrid)
Keynote speaker: Prof. Stefan Hinterwimmer, University of Hamburg
Convenors: Ion Giurgea (giurgeaion at yahoo.com), Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
(sorin.carmen2 at gmail.com)
Registration fee: 300 RON (60 €) for faculty members; 150 RON (30 €)
for PhD
students and online participants

The abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 2 pages,
including examples
and references, 2,5 cm. margins, font size 12. The language of the
workshop is English.
The abstracts should be sent to colocviu.lingvistica.2024 at gmail.com,
specifying in
the body of the message or in the title “workshop definites”.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 September 2024
Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2024

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