35.2610, Calls: Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED) 2025: “Mismatches in anaphoric relations”

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Subject: 35.2610, Calls: Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED) 2025: “Mismatches in anaphoric relations”

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Date: 23-Sep-2024
From: Sarah Melker [sarah.melker at uni-graz.at]
Subject: Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED) 2025: “Mismatches in anaphoric relations”


Full Title: Referential Expressions in Discourse (RED) 2025:
“Mismatches in anaphoric relations”

Date: 29-May-2025 - 30-May-2025
Location: Graz, Austria
Contact Person: Sarah Melker
Meeting Email: sarah.melker at uni-graz.at

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

The conference is part of the conference series on Referential
Expressions in Discourse (RED) and associated with the SFB Language
between Redundancy and Deficiency at the University of Graz.

Call for Papers:

Dates: 29-30 May 2025
Venue: University of Graz, Austria
Organisation: Edgar Onea (Graz) and Klaus von Heusinger (Köln)

Invited speakers: Hans Kamp (Stuttgart/Austin), Viola Schmitt
(Berlin/MIT), Daniel Altshuler (Oxford)

Many aspects of anaphoric relations have received considerable
attention in the last decades of linguistic research from the
development of various frameworks of dynamic semantics to a multitude
of experimental studies regarding the factors governing anaphoric
accessibility and disambiguation. However, many questions are still
open. Anaphoric pronouns, for example, share features with their
anaphoric antecedents, but there can be semantic or formal mismatches
in phi-features as well, thereby sometimes syntactic and sometimes
semantic features of the antecedent can be ignored, if the antecedent
is overt at all. The question of how features of the anaphoric
pronouns are established is further complicated in copula
constructions and when referring anaphorically to kinds, pluralities,
events, or propositions. The same problem also comes up with
demonstrative pronouns in deictic use whose antecedent is often not at
all articulated. Another range of problems comes from the question of
anaphoric accessibility. Especially in dialogues, direct, indirect
speech and free indirect speech in narration, but also when switching
between certain intensional contexts, both the empirical facts about
the accessibility and the formal connection between antecedent and
anaphoric expression are poorly understood. New advances in the study
of Sign Languages and the semantics of gestures raise significant
questions about the cross-modally valid theories of anaphoricity.

The conference brings together research on phenomena that go outside
the well-established core of anaphoric relations, on theoretical
modelling and experimental exploration of anaphoric relations, but
also including diachronic questions and questions about the
cross-modal applicability of theories of anaphoric relations.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-Formal and semantic features of anaphoric pronouns
-Ontology and accessibility of anaphoric antecedents
-Demonstrative vs. anaphoric pronouns
-The role of prominence and discourse coherence/discourse structure in
anaphoric relations
-Anaphoric reference in narratives and dialogue
-Anaphoric reference in Sign Languages

Abstracts
We invite theoretical and empirical contributions for 30 min
presentations (plus 15 min for discussion) in English. Abstracts
should be anonymous and not longer than two pages (Times New Roman 12
pt., single space, 2.4 cm margins) as a PDF. Please submit per e-mail
to: sarah.melker at uni-graz.at

Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2024
Notification of authors: 15 December 2024
Conference: 29-30 May 2025

Contact: sarah.melker at uni-graz.at



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