LINGUIST List 26.5635
Fri Dec 18 2015
Confs: Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany
Editor for this issue: Amanda Foster <amandalinguistlist.org>
Date: 18-Dec-2015
From: Nicole Gotzner <nicole.gotzner
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Subject: Disjunction Days: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Disjunction
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Date: 02-Jun-2016 - 03-Jun-2016
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Nicole Gotzner
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Meeting Description:
Disjunction Days: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction
Date: 2-3 June 2016
Conference venue: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany
Organizers: Nicole Gotzner, Uli Sauerland and Maribel Romero
Invited speakers: Stephen Crain and Maria Aloni
Description:
The goal of the workshop is to bring together theoretical and experimental perspectives on disjunction. Topics of interest include the following:
- Inclusive, exclusive disjunction and scalar implicatures
- Ignorance, speaker knowledge manipulations and the epistemic step
- Free choice disjunction
- Disjunction and Hurford’s constraint
- Alternative questions and exhaustivity
- The acquisition and processing of disjunction
- Crosslinguistic work on the diversity of disjunction markers
- Historical work on language change affecting disjunction markers
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