| Organizer(s) | Nadine Bade, Sonja Tiemann, Uli Sauerland, Edgar Onea & Malte Zimmermann |
| Affiliaton(s) | ZAS Berlin, University of Göttingen, University of Tübingen, University of Potsdam |
| Start of event | 01.07.2015, 14.00 o'clock |
| End of event | 03.07.2015, 17.00 o'clock |
| Venue | ZAS, Berlin, Trajekte-Raum, 3rd floor |
| Workshop website |
Traditionally, research in formal semantics has established a theoretical distinction between presuppositions and implicatures. This traditional view is based on the different behaviour of presuppositions and implicatures in embedding environments, their (non)ability of being cancelled, and the triggering mechanism behind them. Presuppositions, on the one hand, are said to be lexically triggered inferences, which project under negation and other types of embeddings, and are non-cancellable. Implicatures, on the other hand, are claimed to be triggered by certain linguistic structures only in specific contexts, to not project and to be cancellable. This has led to a formal semantic modeling of presuppositions as prerequisites that have to be fulfilled in the context in order for utterances to be felicitously uttered. Implicatures are modeled as inferences which, in certain contexts, enrich the assertive meaning of an utterance.
This traditional view has been challenged by recent research on presuppositions and implicatures. This recent research primarily takes into consideration experimental as well as cross-linguistic data. It paints a more complicated picture and makes a distinction between both types of inferences less clear cut.
The workshop will provide a forum for researchers working on these two phenomena to discuss their latest insights on the basis of empirical data, such as experimental and/or crosslinguistic data.
Invited Speakers:
Emmanuel Chemla (ENS Paris), Danny Fox (MIT), Jacopo Romoli (University of Ulster), Florian Schwarz (University of Pennsylvania), Judith Tonhauser (Ohio State University)
Contact:
Nadine Bade (nadine.bade@uni-tuebingen.de)
Sonja Tiemann (sonja.tiemann@uni-tuebingen.de
Warming-up on Tuesday, June 30th 2015
| 18:00 | “Variable costs” (abstract) Kai von Fintel (joint work with David Beaver) |
| 19:30 | DINNER at Löwenbräu am Gendarmenmarkt |
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Welcome Note |
| 14:20 – 15:00 | The Strongest Meaning Hypothesis and Presupposition Projection Clemens Mayr and Uli Sauerland |
| 15:00 – 15:40 | Culminations as extra soft presupposition triggers Zsofia Gyarmathy |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | On the heterogeneity of projective content Invited talk by Judith Tonhauser |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | BREAK |
| 17:15 – 18:15 | Grammar as logic: the case from polarity and factivity (Room 403!!!) Invited talk by Gennaro Chierchia |
| 18:30 | DINNER at Tapas y mas |
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 11:00 | On the idea that some presuppositions are scalar implicatures: the view from acquisition and Broca’s Aphasia Invited talk by Jacopo Romoli |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:20 – 12:00 | A scalar implicature-based account of the inference of pluralised mass (and count) nouns Frances Kane, Jacopo Romoli, Tsoulas George, Raffaella Folli and Dora Alexopoulou |
| 12:00 – 12:40 | Plurality inferences are scalar implicatures: Further evidence from acquisition Lyn Tieu, Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli and Stephen Crain |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Determined Reference as a CI Component in the Meaning of Definites Assif Am David and Manfred Sailer |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | Projection properties of cognitive and emotive factives Jennifer Spenader |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:40 – 16:20 | Mention-all versus mention-some: Exhaustivity and sensitivity to false answers Yimei Xiang |
| 16:20 – 16:30 | BREAK |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Mention Some, Reconstruction, and the Notion of Answerhood Invited talk by Danny Fox |
| 18:00 | DINNER at Valmontone |
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 11:00 | An original diagnostic tool for linguistics: probability judgment Invited talk by Emmanuel Chemla |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:20 – 12:00 | Children’s interpretation of sentences with multiple scalar terms Cory Bill, Elena Pagliarini, Jacopo Romoli, Lyn Tieu and Stephen Crain |
| 12:00 – 12:40 | Embedded scalar implicatures: new experimental data from Russian Yulia Zinova, Anastasiya Lopukhina and Konstantin Lopukhin |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Assessing the Bias Strength of Experiencer- Stimulus Verbs Vs. Agent-Evocator Verbs: The Role of Presupposition Simone Gerle, Johanna Klages, Anke Holler and Thomas Weskott |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Differentiating Presupposition Triggers – Experimental Explorations Invited talk by Florian Schwarz |