LINGUIST List 23.957 Sat Feb 25 2012 Confs: Pragmatics, Semantics/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.     Arndt Riester , Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity Message 1: Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity Date: 23-Feb-2012 From: Arndt Riester <arndt.riesterims.uni-stuttgart.de> Subject: Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity E-mail this message to a friend Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non-)Restrictivity Date: 19-Mar-2012 - 20-Mar-2012 Location: Stuttgart, Germany Contact: Arndt Riester Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~arndt/restrictivity.html Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics Meeting Description: Workshop on the Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of (Non- )Restrictivity Invited Speakers: Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart) Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Universitetet i Oslo) Jutta Hartmann (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) Magdalena Kaufmann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Christopher Piñon (Université de Lille 3) Paula Rubio Fernández (University College London) Carla Umbach (Universität Osnabrück) Bart Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Workshop Description: Restrictivity - and its counterpart non-restrictivity - understood as properties of natural language modifiers such as relative clauses, adjectives, adverbials, PP- or nominal adjuncts, are fundamental concepts in linguistic theory. The question whether the modifier of a head is restrictive or not depends on and has an influence on various linguistic levels. It is reflected in syntax (pre- vs. postnominal modifier, attachment) and prosody (accent placement, prosodic phrasing), and it is constrained by semantic and pragmatic factors (concept type, information status, information structure, entailment properties, projective meaning). Despite the omnipresence of modification in natural discourse and various attempts at defining (non-)restrictivity, there is still no consensual definition which unites all structural and meaning-related aspects, and which is robust enough to be used, for instance, in corpus annotation. Specific Questions: i. Does the notion of (non-)restrictivity apply to modifiers in indefinites in the same way as in definites? Why is it often difficult to decide whether the modifier of an indefinite is restrictive or not? ii. What difficulties arise when (non-)restrictivity applies in the non- nominal domain, as with adverbials that modify events or states? What is common and different between (non-)restrictive modifiers in the verbal and the nominal domain? iii. Restricting the denotation of a noun intuitively only makes sense if its extension comprises more than one individual. Therefore, restriction creates a set of alternatives. Is there an intrinsic connection between restrictivity and focus? iv. (Non-)restrictivity is often correlated with structural (syntactic) differences. Is this generally the case or is it possible that sometimes restrictive and non-restrictive phrases share the same structure? v. What does information structure theory tell us about the prosody of (non-)restrictive phrases? vi. What are the connections and the differences between the restrictivity of (in-)definite expressions and the restrictivity of other quantifiers? vii. It has been proposed that evaluative modifiers are less easily used as restrictive modifiers than non-evaluative ones. Do modifiers more generally display a lexical bias for either a restrictive or a non- restrictive reading, and if yes, what are the properties responsible for those kinds of bias? Workshop organized by Fabienne Martin (Institut für Linguistik/Romanistik, SFB 732-B5, 'Polysemy in a Conceptual System') and Arndt Riester (Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, SFB 732-A1, 'Incremental Specification of Focus and Givenness in a Discourse Context') at the University of Stuttgart. Venue: University of Stuttgart, Keplerstr. 17 (K II building, room 17.16) Monday, March 19, 2012 10:00 Registration 10:30 Paula Rubio Fernández (University College London) & Bart Geurts (Nijmegen): Redundant Colour Adjectives in Object Requests 11:15 Coffee 11:45 Carla Umbach (Stuttgart/Osnabrück): Nonrestrictive Modification and Evaluativity 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Timothy Leffel (New York University): Nonrestrictive Adjectives and theTheory of Scalar Implicatures 14:45 Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart): On the Syntactic Reality of Restrictive Adjectival Modification 15:30 Coffee 16:00 Arndt Riester (Stuttgart): To Restrict is to Focus 16:45 Cécile Meier (Frankfurt): Swiss German Relative Clauses 17:30 End Tuesday, March 20, 2012 9:30 Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen (Oslo): (Non)Restrictiveness from a Discourse Perspective 10:15 Coffee 10:45 Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University): ''Nonrestrictive'' Universal Quantifier: the Case of Japanese Dare-mó 11:30 Magdalena Kaufmann (Göttingen): t.b.a. 12:15 Lunch 13:45 Jutta Hartmann (Tübingen): (Non)Restrictivity in It-cleft Sentences 14:30 Christopher Piñón (Lille): t.b.a. 15:15 End To register for this event, please send an email to: restrictivityims.uni-stuttgart.de Registration fee EUR 40, to be paid on site. 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