Call for papers: The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation
Date: 15-17 November 2013
Call Deadline: July 28th 2013
Meeting Description:
Pronouns can vary along two dimensions: (i) their interpretation (e.g., free vs. syntactically bound vs. donkey pronouns) and (ii) their form (e.g., personal vs. clitic vs. null vs. demonstrative pronouns). The goal of this workshop is to bring together recent advances bearing exactly on the interplay of the two, e.g. how do choices along one dimension restrict the possible choices along the other one?
Invited Speakers:
Peter Bosch (University of Osnabrück)
Paul Elbourne (QMUL)
Irene Heim (MIT)
Martina Wiltschko (UBC)
Commentators for invited talks:
Vera Hohaus (University of Tübingen)
Gerhard Jaeger (University of Tübingen)
Jacolien van Rij (University of Tübingen)
Ede Zimmermann (University of Frankfurt)
Discussion: Current pronominal issues at the syntax-semantics interface
Uli Sauerland (Harvard/ZAS Berlin)
Sarah Zobel (University of Tübingen)
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions for 30-minute talks plus 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts must be anonymous, in PDF format, 2 pages (A4 or letter), in a font size no less then 12pt, and with margins of 1 inch/2.5cm. Please submit abstracts via EasyAbs (see link below) no
later than July 28th, 2013.
Abstract submission link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/pronouns2013
Ideal submissions to this workshop might involve (but are not limited to) the following components (individually or in combination):
- Experimental testing using methods from psychology/the cognitive sciences.
- Novel empirical findings (e.g. from corpus work), which shed light on pronouns
at the syntax-semantics interface.
- Potential extensions of current syntactic-semantic approaches to pronouns to
accommodate other pronominal classes (e.g. null pronouns, demonstratives).- Diachronic shifts of the pronominal form and interpretation.
- Recent developments concerning (anti-)logophoricity.
-Comparisons of quantifier-variable readings contrasting null pronouns with
overt pronouns.
- The cross-linguistic distribution of demonstrative pronouns and their comparison
to personal pronouns.
- Semantic differences between clitic pronouns and non-clitic pronouns.
• For questions or inquiries, please contact: pritty.patel-grosz@uni-tuebingen.de
Organisational Committee
Katrin Axel-Tober (University of Tuebingen)
Patrick Grosz (University of Tuebingen)
Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Tuebingen/SFB 833)
For more information, go here.
