35.3265, Calls: Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Scalarity

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Subject: 35.3265, Calls: Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Scalarity

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Date: 14-Nov-2024
From: Alexander Wimmer [alexanderwimmer2012 at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Scalarity


Full Title: Workshop on the Syntax and Semantics of Scalarity
Short Title: SYSSI

Date: 03-Mar-2025 - 04-Mar-2025
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Contact Person: Alexander Wimmer
Meeting Email: alexanderwimmer2012 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The DFG-project "Scalarity at the Syntax-Semantics Interface" (SYSSI),
recently awarded to Prof. Daniel Hole and Dr. Alexander Wimmer
(Universität Stuttgart), aims to shed more light on the syntax and
semantics of scalarity, a notion that figures prominently in a wide
range of linguistic works on very diverse languages. We take this
pervasiveness in linguistic theory to be paralleled by one in human
cognition. Scalarity has been conventionalized in various ways, giving
rise to a diversity of subphenomena in natural language. The work we
are conducting is broadly defined by, but not limited to, scalar
particles like 'even' and 'only' across languages and their appearance
in context. The crosslinguistic perspective we take mainly includes,
but also exceeds, contrasts and similarities between Chinese, English
and German (with occasional excursions to Vietnamese), allowing us to
cover an unprecedented breadth of – often novel – data simultaneously
and develop crosslinguistically valid, though parsimonious, analyses.
It is one of the major goals of this project to come up with a new
taxonomy of speaker-oriented scalar phenomena in natural language, and
we particularly encourage submissions touching upon this empirical
realm.

Invited speakers (in alphabetical order):
- Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan University)
- Aron Hirsch (University of Maryland)
- Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks at our kick-off
workshop, to be held at the University of Stuttgart on March 3 and 4,
2025. Any contributions engaging with the topic of scalarity in
natural language are most welcome. Each talk will be followed by 10
minutes of discussion.

Abstracts should
- be in PDF-format,
- have margins of 1 inch (3 cm) on each side,
- have a font size of 12 pt throughout,
- not reveal the identities of the author(s),
- not exceed 2 (US Letter/A4) pages in length, excluding figures and
references,
- not have their example sentences attached, but surrounded by the
main text.

Please submit your abstract attached to an email to the following
address: syssi2025 at gmail.com

Submission deadline: January 10, 2025
Date of notification: January 25, 2025

Contact addresses:
- Daniel Hole (holedan at gmail.com)
- Alexander Wimmer (alexanderwimmer2012 at gmail.com)



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