36.3891, Confs: Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (France)

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Date: 17-Dec-2025
From: Orin Percus [sub31.nantes at gmail.com]
Subject: Sinn und Bedeutung 31


Sinn und Bedeutung 31
Short Title: SuB31
Theme: semantics

Date: 01-Sep-2026 - 04-Sep-2026
Location: Nantes, France
Contact: SuB31 Nantes
Contact Email: sub31.nantes at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/sub31nantes

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics

Submission Deadline: 09-Mar-2026

Sinn und Bedeutung 31
Nantes Université
Main session: September 2-4, 2026
Pre-conference workshop “Plurality and Distributivity across lexical
categories”: September 1, 2026
SuB31, organized by the Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (Nantes
Université/CNRS). will be held at Nantes Université.  The main session
will take place on September 2-4, with invited speakers Márta Abrusán
(CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod), Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam),
Aron Hirsch (University of Maryland) and Elin McCready (ICREA -
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).  There will additionally be a
pre-conference workshop, “Plurality and Distributivity across lexical
categories,” on September 1, with invited speaker Viola Schmitt (MIT).
For the main session, we invite abstract submissions for talks (25
minutes + 10 minutes Q&A) and posters on topics related to natural
language semantics and pragmatics.  We are open to a variety of
perspectives.  For example, contributions could address the
syntax-semantics interface, they could incorporate experimental
evidence, they could base themselves on computational modeling, or
they could interact with issues in philosophy of language.  However,
all submissions should aim to advance a formal model of natural
language semantics and pragmatics.  We particularly encourage
submissions from junior researchers.
The pre-conference workshop is specifically dedicated to the
expression of distributivity and plurality.  Cross-linguistic research
shows that languages express distributivity and plurality across the
full range of lexical categories (e.g. nouns, verbs, determiners,
adjectives, adverbs) and often through parallel morphosyntactic means.
These parallels raise fundamental questions about the compositional
architecture of grammar and the nature of cross-categorial operators.
The workshop aims to bring together research on a variety of languages
and through a variety of methodologies to examine how such mechanisms
operate across categories and what they reveal about the
morphosyntax–semantics interface.  For the workshop, we also invite
abstract submissions for talks (25 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A).
Abstracts for both the main session and the pre-conference workshop
are to be submitted in PDF format via OpenReview (
https://openreview.net/group?id=SuB/2026/Conference ). Abstracts will
automatically be considered for the main session; you will be asked if
you would also like your abstract to be considered for the
pre-conference workshop. Similarly, abstracts will automatically be
considered to be proposals for talks; you will be asked if you would
also like your abstract to be considered as a proposal for a poster.
 - The deadline for submission is March 9, 2026, 23:00 Universal
Coordinated Time/Greenwich Mean Time. Note that, in order to submit an
abstract, you will first need to create an author profile at
OpenReview and it may take some time before your account gets fully
activated and ready for submission – possibly even two weeks. Please
make sure to do so as soon as possible in order to ensure that your
account is active before the submission deadline.
 - Abstracts must present original research that has neither been
published nor accepted for publication at the time of submission.
 - Each individual may submit a maximum of one abstract as a sole
author and one as a co-author (or two as a co-author).
 - Submissions should be anonymous and should not include any
identifying information.
 - Abstracts should be formatted to fit within two pages (letter size
or A4 paper, with 2.54 cm or 1-inch margins on all sides, 12-point
Times New Roman font). An additional third page may be included
exclusively for references (mandatory), large figures or tables, and
lines corresponding to glosses and translations in non-English
examples. Examples, whether glossed or not, should be integrated into
the main text rather than collected at the end.



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