LINGUIST List 27.3088
Wed Jul 27 2016
Confs: Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/Germany
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Jul-2016
From: Uli Sauerland <uli
alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Crosslinguistic Pragmatics
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Short Title: CLIP
Date: 25-Jan-2017 - 27-Jan-2017
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Uli Sauerland
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Meeting Description:
Cross-linguistic work in semantics has grown substantially in recent years. Pragmatics has lagged behind, perhaps because it widely assumed to derive from universal principles of human rationality despite the early critique of the universality assumption by E. O. Keenan (1976). Investigating pragmatics cross-linguistically also can shed light on current proposals to conventionalize aspects of pragmatics. Finally, studying pragmatics cross-linguistic makes it possible to see how pragmatic principles interact with the grammatical properties of different languages.
Invited speakers:
Napoleon Katsos, Cambridge University
Lisa Matthewson, University of British Columbia
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