Full Title: ESSLLI 2024 workshop "Incremental constructions within and across languages"
Short Title: ESSLLI 2024 Incrementality

Date: 29-Jul-2024 - 02-Aug-2024
Location: Leuven, Belgium
Contact Person: Carla Umbach
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: http://www.carla-umbach.de/ESSLLI2024

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics

Call Deadline: 15-May-2024

Meeting Description:

Incrementality ('adding up to a larger whole', König 1991) can be expressed by English 'more', German 'noch'/'mehr', Hebrew 'od', Mandarin 'hai' etc. While studies of individual incremental constructions exist, there are still many gaps in their understanding. This workshop aims to fill such gaps (A) by studying how incremental constructions vary syntactically and semantically, both across and within languages, and (B) by trying to integrate insights from two approaches to incrementality, which thus far have not interacted: (i) Degree-based approaches (e.g. Greenberg 2010, Thomas 2011), taking incremental constructions to express additive measurements of eventualities and (ii) discourse-oriented approaches (e.g. Eckardt 2007, Umbach 2012, Grubic 2018) taking them to be QUD-sensitive, managing the growth of information along discourse-salient dimensions (e.g. event/discourse time).
The topic of this workshop is closely related to that of the course on Scalarity and additivity in natural language. Course participants are welcome.

Call for Papers:

For details of the call for papers see www.carla-umbach.de/ESSLLI2024