LINGUIST List 21.2712 Thu Jun 24 2010 Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Eva Csipak, Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any' Message 1: Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any' Date: 22-Jun-2010 From: Eva Csipak <eva.csipakphil.uni-goettingen.de> Subject: Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any' E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any' Date: 14-Jan-2011 - 15-Jan-2011 Location: Goettingen, Germany Contact Person: Manfred Sailer Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.negative-polarity-items.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/index.php/BeyondAny Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2010 Meeting Description: Beyond 'Ever' and 'Any': Challenging Theories of NPI Licensing University of Goettingen January 14 and 15, 2011 Invited speakers: Jon Gajewski Jack Hoeksema Utpal Lahiri Bob Levine Is polarity sensitivity a syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic phenomenon? Licensing theories in all three fields have reached a high level of sophistication. However, theories in the three fields compete rather than converge, which we take to indicate that the phenomenon has not as yet been fully understood. In this workshop, we propose to focus on under- researched NPIs, under-researched licensing contexts, and to challenge theories by empirical methods from corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics. The list of open issues includes, but is not limited to, the following: - Polarity items in non-assertive speech acts - Polarity items with idiosyncratic licensing patterns - Parasitic licensing - Intervention effects - NPIs in pycholinguistics and corpus linguistics - Historical rise and fall of NPIs - Patterns of use versus licensing conditions - Verbal NPIs - Comparison of approaches We invite papers for 30 min. talks (plus 15 min. discussion) that pertain to one or more of these questions, or offer other new insights in the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity. Abstracts should be anonymous and at most 2 pages in length. Please send your abstracts electronically in pdf- or doc-format to manfred.sailer -AT- phil.uni-goettingen.de and include your name, affiliation and the title of the abstract in the body of the e-mail. Submissions will be reviewed by two reviewers. Important dates: - Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2010 - Notification: October 18, 2010 - Workshop: January 14 & 15, 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.