LINGUIST List 21.3035 Thu Jul 22 2010 Confs: Pragmatics, Semantics, Ling Theories/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.    Klaus von Heusinger, Specificity from Theoretical and Empirical Points of View Message 1: Specificity from Theoretical and Empirical Points of View Date: 19-Jul-2010 From: Klaus von Heusinger <klaus.vonHeusingerling.uni-stuttgart.de> Subject: Specificity from Theoretical and Empirical Points of View E-mail this message to a friend Specificity from Theoretical and Empirical Points of View Short Title: Spec10 Date: 31-Aug-2010 - 02-Sep-2011 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Contact: Klaus von Heusinger Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/konferenz/specificity2010 Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Semantics Meeting Description: Specificity from Theoretical and Empirical Points of View Stuttgart - 31. August - 2. September 2010 Ongoing research on different aspects of specificity has contributed to a better understanding of the referential potential of indefinite noun phrases at the semantics-pragmatics interface. Furthermore, many studies have established a considerable body of cross-linguistic expressions and constructions that can be related to different types of specificity. The close interaction of in-depth description of particular linguistic phenomena and contrasts with theoretical models of specificity has been very fruitful. However, there are still many open questions, such as 1. How are the different types of specificity related to each other? 2. What are the interactions of specificity with other semantic-pragmatic categories such as referentiality, definiteness and genericity? 3. What is the exact range of linguistic phenomena related to specificity and what are reliable tests? 4. Can we associate different ways of encoding specificity, i.e. by lexical items, by morphology, by syntax, by phonology etc. with distinct properties of specificity? Invited Speakers: - Peter Bosch (confirmed) - Gennaro Chierchia - Paul Dekker (confirmed) - Donka Farkas (confirmed) - Irene Heim - Manuel Leonetti (confirmed) - Hans Kamp (confirmed) - Maribel Romero - Carla Umbach (confirmed) Review Committee: - Peter Bosch - Gennaro Chierchia - Paul Dekker - Cornelia Ebert - Donka Farkas - Jeanette Gundel - Irene Heim - Stefan Hinterwimmer - Tania Ionin - Elsi Kaiser - Hans Kamp - Manuel Leonetti - Luisa Marti - Lisa Matthewson - Paula Menéndez-Benito - Edgar Onea - Maribel Romero - Carla Umbach - Ede Zimmermann Tuesday, 31.08.2010 14:15 – 15:45 Hans Kamp t.b.a. 16:00 – 17:00 Elsi Kaiser, Demonstrative Adjectives in Spoken Finnish: Specificity and the Speaker-Addressee Dynamic 17:00 – 18:00 Michelangelo Falco, Towards a D-type Theory of Specificity 18:15 – 19:45 Peter Bosch, Weak Definites and German Preposition-determiner Contractions Wednesday, 01.09.2010 09:30 – 11:00 Manuel Leonetti, Specificity and Topicality: Some Thoughts on their Complex Interaction 11:30 – 13:00 Carla Umbach, Grading by gewiss – How Does Specificity Relate to Degree Modification? 14:30 – 15:30 Peter Hallmann, On the Interaction of Specificity and Modification 15:30 – 16:30 Ileana Comorovski, Licensing Indefinite Subjects in Constituent Questions Thursday, 02.09.2010 09:30 – 11:00 Paul Dekker, Reference, Specificity and Functionality 11:30 – 13:00 Donka Farkas Dependent, Indefinites within a Typology of Specificity 14:30 – 15:30 Sophia A. Malamud, Specificity as Referential Anchoring in Russian: Shifting Speakers and Hamblin Sets 15:30 – 16:30 Umut Özge, On Singular Indefinites in Turkish 17:00 - 18:30 Klaus von Heusinger, Seven Species of Specificity and One Common Ancestor? Specificity as Referential Anchoring Please note that this event is followed by the conference Dynamics in Semantics, Pragmatics and Logic – on the occasion of Hans Kamp’s 70th birthday. For more information see the following website: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~arndt/kworkshop.html Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-Jul-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.