Diachronies of Negation

Date: 11-May-2023 - 11-May-2023
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Contact: Chiara Gianollo
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://saltconf.github.io/salt33/negation.html

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax; Typology

Meeting Description:

The workshop "Diachronies of negation" will take place as a satellite session of the 33rd meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33), which will be hosted (in person) by the Linguistics Department at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The workshop will take place on Thursday, May 11, 2023.

Organised by Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Chiara Gianollo (University of Bologna), the “History of Negation” research group has been meeting online monthly for two years to discuss original research, which will now be presented to a wider audience. The group's overall objective is to refine the methods and theoretical foundations of formal diachronic linguistic research.

To this effect, the workshop brings together a network of scholars who are interested in exploring the historical aspects of natural language negation and change within this semantic domain, using formal & corpus linguistic tools.

Schedule and abstracts are now published on the workshop’s web page: https://saltconf.github.io/salt33/negation.html

The workshop “Diachronies of negation” is sponsored by Yale's Judaic Studies Program and supported by the NSF grant BCS2116164: the Semantics of negation across time and space.