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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.

Contact address editors: Sub26-proceedings(at)uni-koeln(dot)de

 

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 speakersTeresa 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 
10:45-11:00WELCOME (plus General information)
 Wednesday – Room 1 – Morning Session
Zoom host: Ingmar Brilmayer
Chair: Kristina Liefke
Wednesday – Room 2 – Morning Session
Zoom host: Max Bonke
Chair: Heiko Seeliger
Wednesday – Room 3 – Morning Session
Zoom host: Cornelia Ebert
Chair: Sophie Repp
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

Cataphoric presuppositions

Manfred Sailer

Goethe-University Frankfurt (a.M.)

Use-conditional licensing of strong NPIs

11:45-12:30

Chao Sun and Richard Breheny

Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), University College London

What the inference task can tell us about the comprehension of scalars and numbers: An investigation of probe question and response bias

Felix Frühauf

Universität Konstanz

German rationale clauses under attitude verbs

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
Zoom host: Ingmar Brilmayer
Chair: Ingmar Brilmayer
Wednesday – Room 2 – Afternoon Session
Zoom host: Max Bonke
Chair: Sarah Zobel
Wednesday – Room 3– Afternoon Session
Zoom host: Cornelia Ebert
Chair: Viola Schmitt
13:45-14:30

Adina Camelia Bleotu, Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner

University of Bucharest, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)

Romanian 5-year-olds derive global but not local implicatures with quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs: Evidence from a shadow-playing paradigm.

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)

Implicatures in (non-) monotonic environments

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

  
15:30-16:30Invited Talk Michael Franke (Osnabrück University): What’s a good question?
 Coffee break Mozilla Hubs
 Wednesday – Room 1 – Evening Session
Zoom host: Ingmar Brilmayer
Chair: Berit Gehrke
Wednesday – Room 2 – Evening Session
Zoom host: Max Bonke
Chair: Mingya Liu
Wednesday – Room 3 – Evening Session
Zoom host: Cornelia Ebert
Chair: Florian Schwarz
17:00-17:45

CANCELLED Ryan Walter Smith

University of Texas at El Paso

A unified semantics for associative plurals and plural pronoun constructions

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

Dependent pluractionality in Piipaash (Yuman)

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

Is the 'mano a tulipano' gesture compatible with canonical questions? An empirical study of a speech act-marking gesture

  

18:45-20:15

 

 

 

 

 

Poster Room

[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):

Mandarin bare indefinites

[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

[9] M. Ryan Bochnak (University of British Columbia)

Two types of futures in Washo

[10] Jun Chen (University of Stuttgart) and Sean Papay (University of Stuttgart)

Sentence-final particle de in Mandarin as an informativity maximizer
 

9 September
10:15-10:45Businessmeeting
 Thursday – Room 1 – Morning Session
Zoom host: Clare Patterson
Chair: Nina Haslinger
Thursday – Room 2 – Morning Session
Zoom host: Ede Zimmermann
Chair: Thomas Weskott
Thursday – Room 3 – Morning Session
Zoom host: Jakob Egetenmeyer
Chair: Stefan Hinterwimmer
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 Shun Ihara

Kobe University

Resolving teleological QUDs with/without discourse particles and vocatives