36.383, Confs: Semantics, Typology / Germany

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Subject: 36.383, Confs: Semantics, Typology / Germany

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Date: 29-Jan-2025
From: Simon Wimmer [simon.wimmer at hhu.de]
Subject: How We Do (Not) Talk About Mistaken Beliefs


How We Do (Not) Talk About Mistaken Beliefs

Date: 06-Feb-2025 - 07-Feb-2025
Location: HHU Duesseldorf, Germany
Contact: Simon Wimmer
Contact Email: simon.wimmer at hhu.de

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Typology

Updated call for registration and programme: How we do (not) talk
about mistaken beliefs
6 and 7 February 2025
Department of Philosophy, HHU Duesseldorf
AIMS & SCOPE:
The lexica of natural languages abundantly feature morphologically
simple predicates that denote attitudes by which people get things
right, for instance factive predicates like 'know'. Yet, as far as we
know, they do not regularly feature contrafactive predicates that
denote attitudes by which people get things wrong. It even remains an
open question whether there are any morphologically simple predicates
at all that mirror the truth-presupposition or entailment attested for
'know' by having a falsity-presupposition or entailment.
Cross-linguistic work has discussed a number of candidate
contrafactive predicates (in Cantonese, Daakie. Dutch, German,
Kipsigis, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Taiwanese Southern Min, Turkish,
and Washo), but the data collected so far is insufficient to assess
whether a no-contrafactive-universal is plausible. To address this,
this workshop brings together researchers that are collecting or have
collected relevant data from the world’s languages. A second open
question is how the difference in the frequency of the two kinds of
predicates can and should be explained. This question is not only
relevant to linguists, but also to philosophers, as some explanations
have significant philosophical implications. Proposals that have been
explored range from ontological explanations (for instance that there
are no suitable entities, ‘contrafacts’, for the complements of
contrafactive predicates to denote) to learnability-based explanations
(e.g., that contrafactive predicates are harder to learn). But the
explanations currently on offer still face difficult questions
concerning their details and empirical coverage, and it even remains
to be seen whether we should give a unified explanation or instead
rely on a variety of different factors. The second aim of this
conference will thus be to compare existing explanations, to discuss
alternatives that might improve on them, and what, if any,
philosophical and linguistic implications follow from the best
available explanations.
PROGRAMME:
6 February
10:00 Richard Holton (Cambridge)
“Knowledge is determinate; mistake less so”
11:00 William MacGregor (Aarhus)
“Expressions of mistaken belief: a prolegomenon  to a typology”
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Tom Roberts (Utrecht) and Deniz Özyildiz (Stuttgart)
“A causal explanation for the contrafactive gap”
14:00 Kilu von Prince (Duesseldorf)
"False beliefs and related notions in cross-linguistic comparison"
15:00 Break
15:30 Emily Hanink (Indiana)
“Two paths to clausal embedding in Wá·šiw”
joint work with Ryan Bochnak
16:30 Lelia Glass (Georgia Tech)
“Truth, common ground, and the factive/contrafactive asymmetry”
7 February 2025
10:00 Simon Wimmer (Duesseldorf)
“Contrafactives and contrafacts”
11:00 Mora Maldonado and Orin Percus (Nantes)
“Another look at contrafactive predicates: The case of Spanish
creerse”
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Thorsten Sander (Duisburg-Essen)
“Anti-factives and negation"
14:00 David Strohmaier (Cambridge)
“Experimenting with contrafactives: adjusting for empirically attested
distributions”
15:00 Break
15:30 Madeline Bossi (independent)
“Negative bias, reminding, and pragmatic reasoning in Kipsigis belief
reports”
VENUE:
* Participation is possible in-person or online. (Some talks are held
online.)
* The in-person venue is Haus der Universität, Schadowplatz 14, 40212
Düsseldorf.
REGISTRATION:
* The deadline to register for in-person attendance is 28 January
2025. The deadline to register for online attendance is 4 February
2025
* Please register by sending an e-mail with the subject header
"Registration" to Simon Wimmer (simon.wimmer at hhu.de). The e-mail must
indicate whether you plan to participate in-person or online.
* In-person participants can attend the conference dinner on 6
February at their own expense. If you would like to do so, please
indicate this in your registration e-mail.
* Registered participants will receive a detailed schedule (including
links for online participation) closer to the date of the workshop.
* If you have any queries, you can e-mail simon.wimmer at hhu.de.



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