Sinn und Bedeutung 26
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The proceedings are ready for download.
Bibliographic information: Gutzmann, Daniel & Sophie Repp, Eds. (2022) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26. Universität zu Köln.
The proceedings will be maintained by the University of Konstanz on the SuB proceedings site and will appear there in January 2023. You will also be able to download individual articles then.
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The conference at a glance
Sinn und Bedeutung 26 was be hosted by the Institute of German Language and Literature I and the Cologne Center of Language Sciences at the University of Cologne on 8-10 September 2021.
We had the following invited speakers: Teresa Espinal (UA Barcelona), Michael Franke (Osnabrück), Claudia Maienborn (Tübingen), and Floris Roelofsen (Amsterdam).
Organizing Team: Daniel Gutzmann and Sophie Repp
Program Committee: Cornelia Ebert (Frankfurt), Daniel Gutzmann (Cologne), Stefan Hinterwimmer (Wuppertal), Sophie Repp (Cologne), Petra Schumacher (Cologne), Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt)
Program: Download pdf (and see below for html version)
OSF: SuB 26 Page | Instructions for presenters
Sister event: Formal Diachronic Semantics 6
Past information
Format
All talks will be given in real time via Zoom. Since presenters are in different time zones, we kindly ask all presenters to allow us to record their presentation whilst they are speaking so we can make the presentations available on OSF (see further below), and attendees of the conference for whom the early/late time slots are not feasible will still be able to hear the presentations and interact with the presenters via the chat/comment function on OSF. If presenters prefer to record a version for OSF before their talk that is fine with us but the talk should be given live in the assigned time slot in any case. The length of the talks should be approx. 30/35 minutes with 10 minutes discussion time.
The poster session will also take place via Zoom. It will start with a block of two-minute lightning talks in the main zoom room. Then the posters will be presented in individual break-out rooms. We ask all poster presenters to send us (sub26@easychair.org) two to three slides for the lightning talks as well as their posters in pdf format before the conference (by 7 September, 9 o'clock Central European Time). We will collate the slides for the lightning talks for smooth presentation during the poster session. Posters can also be made available on OSF (see below).
Presentation materials on OSF
We have created a meeting space for SuB 26 on OSF: https://osf.io/meetings/SuB26/.
Presenters who wish to make their presentation (talk or poster) available to others, please follow the instructions given here: OSF instructions for presenters (see the short video 'Example talk').
Attendees who wish to view presentations after the live Zoom session may view the materials and use the comment/chat function on OSF to interact with presenters (speech bubbles in the right top corner).
Registration
Registration for SuB 26 will be free. However, it will be necessary to register to attend the online event, which will take place via Zoom. Upon registration, you will be provided with the passwords that will give you access to the Zoom sessions. Presenters/Authors who have entered their email address on Easychair have already been registered and will receive the passwords via email before the conference.
Registration will start on 1 September and will run during the entire conference. However, we kindly ask you to register BEFORE 8 September to avoid any delays in receiving the passwords. Everyone who registers between 1 and 7 September will receive the passwords on 7 September (CET).
To register, please send an email to: sub26@easychair.org
Subject line: Registration SuB 26
Mail body: first name, last name, and affiliation
Program
pdf download (The most up-to-date Program is the web table below but we are continuously updating the pdf as well).
To access the zoom sessions, click on the day and room name of the session that you wish to attend, in the program table below. For the welcome session, the business meeting and the presentations given by the invited speakers, click on the one link in the respective cell or on 'Invited talk'. Please enter the password that you were given upon registration. Please refresh the page regularly - we are continuously updating it during the conference.
8 September
10:45-11:00 | WELCOME (plus General information) | ||
| Wednesday – Room 1 – Morning Session | Wednesday – Room 2 – Morning Session | Wednesday – Room 3 – Morning Session |
11:00-11:45 | Eszter Ronai and Ming Xiang The University of Chicago Explaining scalar diversity with predictability of alternatives | Torgrim Solstad and Oliver Bott Bielefeld University | Manfred Sailer Goethe-University Frankfurt (a.M.) |
11:45-12:30 | Chao Sun and Richard Breheny Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), University College London | Felix Frühauf Universität Konstanz | Juliane Schwab and Mingya Liu Osnabrück University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Attenuating NPIs in indicative vs. counterfactual conditionals |
| Lunch break: Mozilla Hubs OR Zoom | ||
| Wednesday – Room 1 – Afternoon Session | Wednesday – Room 2 – Afternoon Session | Wednesday – Room 3– Afternoon Session |
13:45-14:30 | Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner University of Bucharest, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) | Alexander Wimmer and Robin Hörnig Universität Tübingen Present counterfactuals and the indicative-subjunctive divide | Giuseppe Magistro Ghent University The rise and fall of illocutionary negation: the semantic reanalysis of Venetan 'miga' |
14:30-15:15 | Nicole Gotzner and Anton Benz Universität Potsdam, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) | Alexandros Kalomoiros and Florian Schwarz University of Pennsylvania Presupposition projection from 'or' vs 'and' - an experimental comparison | Maike Züfle and Roni Katzir Heidelberg University, Tel Aviv University An evolutionary model-based approach to the missing o-corner |
15:30-16:30 | Invited Talk Michael Franke (Osnabrück University): What’s a good question? | ||
| Coffee break Mozilla Hubs | ||
| Wednesday – Room 1 – Evening Session | Wednesday – Room 2 – Evening Session | Wednesday – Room 3 – Evening Session |
17:00-17:45 | CANCELLED
| Dongsik Lim, Semoon Hoe andYugyeong Park Hongik University, Pusan National University, Seoul National University Two different types of inference in evidentials: efficacy vs. doxastic worlds | Marianne Huijsmans and Daniel Reisinger University of British Columbia Gesture vs. salience: Two types of demonstratives in ʔayʔaǰuθəm |
17:45-18:30 | Robert Henderson, Jeremy Pasquereau and John Powell University of Arizona, UK Surrey Morphology Group, University of Arizona | Yurika Aonuki University of British Columbia An account of morphological tenselessness in Gitksan inspired by SOT in English | Michela Ippolito, Francesca Foppolo and Francesca Panzeri University of Toronto, Universita degli Studi Milano – Bicocca |
18:45-20:15
| [1] Anne Mucha (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim) and Jutta Hartmann (Bielefeld University) (Non)Attitude verbs and control shift: Evidence from German [2] Berit Gehrke (HU Berlin) and Marcin Wagiel (Masaryk University Brno): Non-conservative readings with percentage quantifiers in Slavic and German [3] Jianan Liu, Xiaoli Dong and Bert Le Bruyn (UiL-OTS): [4] Mathieu Paillé (McGill University) Non-Boolean conjunction with atomic and plural subjects [5] Mora Maldonado (University of Edinburgh), Noga Zaslavsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) Efficient coding explains cross-linguistic patterns in Person systems [6] Kazuko Yatsushiro, Tue Trinh, Marzena Żygis, Stephanie Solt, Anton Benz and Manfred Krifka (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)) Assertability differences between epistemic adverbs and adjectives [7] Kurt Erbach (University of Bonn) and Leda Berio (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)) Countability shifts in the normative dimension [8] Michela Ippolito, Angelika Kiss and Will Williams (University of Toronto) The discourse function of adversative conjunction [10] Jun Chen (University of Stuttgart) and Sean Papay (University of Stuttgart) Sentence-final particle de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer | ||
9 September
10:15-10:45 | |||
| Thursday – Room 1 – Morning Session | Thursday – Room 2 – Morning Session | Thursday – Room 3 – Morning Session |
11:00-11:45 | Adam Przepiórkowski University of Warsaw / Polish Academy of Sciences / University of Oxford Polyadic cover quantification in heterofunctional coordination | Xixian Liao Pompeu Fabra University Coherence-driven predictability and referential form: evidence from English corpus data | CANCELLED
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11:45-12:30 | İsa Kerem Bayırlı TOBB University of Economics and Technology | Asya Achimova, Christian Stegemann-Philipps, Susanne Winkler and Martin V. Butz University of Tübingen Referring to agents in an artifcial world: the role of predictability | Alex Warstadt and Omar Agha New York University Testing gradient measures of relevance in discourse
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| Lunch break Mozilla Hubs OR Zoom | ||
| Thursday – Room 1– Afternoon Session | Thursday – Room 2– Afternoon Session | Thursday – Room 3– Afternoon Session |
13:45-14:30 | Lydia Newkirk Rutgers University Limited variable-force modals and the interaction of scal{ar,eless} implicatures | Masashi Harada McGill University | Daniel Goodhue University of Maryland Rising declaratives and the pragmatics of illocutionary force |
14:30-15:15 | Richard Booth Columbia University | Aron Hirsch and Bernhard Schwarz Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), McGill University | Cory Bill and Todor Koev Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), University of Konstanz |
15:30-16:30 | Invited Talk M. Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Negation in language and mind | ||
| Coffee Break: Mozilla Hubs | ||
| Thursday – Room 1 – Evening Session | Thursday – Room 2 – Evening Session | Thursday – Room 3 – Evening Session |
17:00-17:45 | Adam Gobeski and Marcin Morzycki Unaffiliated (United States), University of British Columbia Odds, probabilities, scores, and the interpretation of measure phrases | Moshe E. Bar-Lev Hebrew University of Jerusalem Why the distributive/collective ambiguity is (sometimes) a myth | Lalitha Balachandran University of California, Santa Cruz Reciprocal questions and the pragmatics of argument reversing VPE |
17:45-18:30 | Peter Sutton, Hana Filip, Todd Snider and Mia Windhearn UPF Barcelona, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | Mojmír Dočekal, Nina Haslinger, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt, Marcin Wagiel, Valerie Wurm and Iveta Šafratová Masaryk University, University of Göttingen, University of Vienna, Central European University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Masaryk University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Masaryk University Brno Cumulative readings of distributive conjunctions: Evidence from Czech and German | Richard Stockwell Christ Church, University of Oxford Contradiction and ellipsis licensing with voice mismatch and symmetry |
18:45-19:45 | Invited Talk Floris Roelofsen (University of Amsterdam): Text to Sign Translation | ||
| Mozilla Hubs (open all day) | ||
10 September
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Friday – Room 1 – Morning Session | Friday – Room 2 – Morning Session | Friday – Room 3 – Morning Session | |
11:00-11:45 | Isabelle Charnavel Harvard University | Friederike Moltmann Université Paris | Ciyang Qing and Floris Roelofsen University of Amsterdam |
11:45-12:30 | Mojmír Dočekal and Hana Krajíčková Masaryk University Brno Comparative and superlative differentials: experimental evidence from Czech | Julia Lukassek, Maria Ermakova and Juliane Nau Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zentrum für digitale Lexikographie der deutschen Sprache | Moritz Igel and Konstantin Sachs University of Tübingen |
| Lunch break: Mozilla Hubs | ||
| Friday – Room 1– Afternoon Session | Friday – Room 2– Afternoon Session | Friday – Room 3– Afternoon Session |
13:45-14:30 | Gerhard Schaden Université de Lille | William Johnston McGill University Nonspecific promises: Restitutive 'again' and intensional transfer-of-posRoom verbs | Joshua Martin Harvard University |
14:30-15:15 | Sarah Zobel and Jakob Majdič University of Oslo, University of Vienna Expressing difficult achievements in Bavarian: the interpretation of 'der'-verbs | Mira Grubic Potsdam University | Stavroula Alexandropoulou and Nicole Gotzner University of Potsdam Negation, polarity & scale structure: Different inferences of gradable adjectives |
| Coffee Break: Mozilla Hubs | ||
| Friday – Room 1 – Evening Session | Friday – Room 2 – Evening Session | Friday – Room 3 – Evening Session |
15:45-16:30 | Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth Cornell University | Carina Bolaños Lewen and Carolyn Anderson Wesleyan University and Wellesley College | Ang Li Rutgers University |
16:30-17:15 | Frank Sode Goethe University Frankfurt (a.M.) | Ruyue Agnes Bi Massachusetts Institute of Technology Deriving evaluativity in even-comparatives via presupposition accommodation | Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez University of Southern California A seeming violation to the Monotonicity Constraint: Evidence from Spanish verbal comparatives |
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17:20-17:30 | |||