7th Colloquium 'Semantics and Philosophy in Europe' (SPE7)
Organizer(s) |
Anton Benz, Manfred Krifka, Friederike Moltmann, Tobias Rosefeldt, Stephanie Solt, Isidora Stojanovic, Carla Umbach & Thomas Ede Zimmermann |
Affiliaton(s) |
ZAS Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Goethe Universität Frankfurt |
Start of event |
26.06.2014, 09.00 o'clock
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End of event |
28.06.2014, 18.00 o'clock
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Venue |
ZAS
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Conference website
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SPE 7 will be hosted by the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin in cooperation with Institut für Philosophie and Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik at Humboldt University Berlin.
Invited speakers:
The purpose of the Semantics and Philosophy in Europe colloquia is to provide a forum for presenting research in the interface between linguistic semantics and various areas of philosophy (philosophy of language, philosophy of mind/cognition, metaphysics etc.). Previous SPE meetings have taken place place in Paris (SPE1, 2008 and SPE3, 2010), London (SPE2, 2009), Bochum (SPE4, 2011), Turin (SPE5, 2012) and St.Peterburg (SPE6, 2013). In addition to the general session, SPE 7 will feature two special sessions:
- Conceptual structures and truth-conditional semantics
- Attitudes towards questions
Two preconference tutorials will be offered:
Programme
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| 3rd floor, room 308 | 4th floor, room 403 | Wednesday, 25. June 2014 | 11.00 -- 13.00 | Tutorial 1 Manfred Krifka (ZAS) Questions: from embedded clauses to speech acts | Tutorial 2 Friederike Moltmann (CNRS), Carla Umbach (ZAS) Evaluative predicates | 14.30 -- 16.30 | Thursday, 26. June 2014 | 9.15 | Welcome | | 9.30 | Plenary talk: Galit Sassoon (Bar Ilan University) Breaking myths about similarity | | 10.30 | Antje Rossdeutscher, Tillmann Pross Measuring out the relation between conceptual structures and truth-conditional semantics | Lorenzo Rossi Adding a conditional to Kripke’s theory of truth | 11.15 | Coffee break | 11.35 | Sebastian Bücking, Frauke Buscher How do compositional semantics and conceptual structures interact? A case-study on mental attitude adverbials | Katharina Felka Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions | 12.20 | Michael Glanzberg Concepts and Composition in the Lexicon | Jan Wislicki Expressing the meaning of quotation | 13.05 | Lunch break | 14.30 | Claudia Maienborn, Johanna Herdtfelder Composition, Coercion and the Lexicon: Deriving Eventive and Stative Readings of Causal Modifiers in Copula Sentences | Dolf Rami, Wilfried Keller A Uniform Analysis of Incomplete and Referential Definite Descriptions | 15.15 | Peter Sutton Probabilistic Prototypes and Compositionality | Peter Fritz Counterfactuals and Contingently Existing Propositions | 16.00 | Coffee break | 16.20 | Plenary talk: Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University) Lexical semantics based on conceptual spaces | | 17.20 | | Poster Session (plus drinks and snacks) | Friday, 27. June 2014 | 9.30 | Plenary talk: Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) On concealed questions and specificational subjects | | 10.30 | Maria Biezma, Kyle Rawlins Bundling questions and granularity in discourse | Eva Poortman Boolean "and" and Non-Boolean "and": Resolving Vagueness of Plural Predication | 11.15 | Coffee break | 11.35 | Ivano Ciardelli Question meaning = resolution conditions | Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin The Homogeneity Constraint on Plural Quantifiers | 12.20 | Robert Matthews Intellectualism, Competence, and Knowledge | Manuel Križ, Emmanuel Chemla Finding Gaps | 13.05 | Lunch break | 14.30 | Barbara Vetter, Emanuel Viebahn How many meanings for 'may'? The case for modal polysemy | Daniel Tiskin De Se, Transparent Readings and the Structure of Pronouns | 15.15 | Martin Aher A New Twist to the Miners Puzzle | Corien Bary and Daniel Altshuler Double access and acquaintance | 16.00 | Coffee break | 16.20 | Andy Yu Epistemic modals under disjunction | Brendan Balcerak Jackson Linguistic Solutions to Philosophical Problems? | 17.20 - 18.20 | Plenary talk: Jane Friedman (New York University) Inquiry | | 20.00 | Conference dinner (Vabrique, Ritterstrasse 12-14, 10969 Berlin) | Saturday, 28. June 2014 | 9.30 | Plenary talk: Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University) On the blooming descriptive content of (some) expressives | | 10.30 | Cornelia Ebert, Christian Ebert Gestures, demonstratives, and the attributive/referential distinction | Matthijs Westera Giving conversational implicatures the status they need and deserve | 11.15 | Coffee break | 11.35 | Philippe Schlenker Natural Logic with Iconicity | Jessica Pepp Puzzles, data, and theory: a case study | 12.20 - 13.20 | Plenary talk: Jason Stanley (Yale University) Subordinating Speech and Linguistic Context | | |
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