XPrag.de coordinator Uli Sauerland from ZAS Berlin was appointed to be the editor of the semantics/pragmatics area of the new journal “Linguistics Vanguard” published by DeGruyter.

On January 30th, Nicole Gotzner from XPrag.de project SIGames at ZAS Berlin defended her doctoral thesis on “Establishing alternative sets” with highest honor (summa cum laude). Congratulations, Nicole!

Filippo Domaneschi from XPrag.de project BiasQ in Konstanz has edited a special issue of TOPOI titled “Presuppositions: philosophy, linguistics and psychology” .
The work is still in press but all the papers collected are available online:

http://link.springer.com/journal/11245/onlineFirst/page/1

List of contributors/titles:

Filippo Domaneschi – “Introduction”
Barbara Abbott – “An information packaging approach to presuppositions and conventional implicatures”
Anne Bezuidenhout – “Presupposition Failure and the Assertive Enterprise”
Manuel Garcia Carpintero – “Accommodating Presuppositions”.
Benjamin Spector – “Multivalent Semantics for Vagueness and Presupposition”
Cory Bill, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz & Stephen Crain – “Implicatures and Presuppositions in the Scope of Negation – Evidence from Acquisition”
Michele Prandi – “Selection restrictions as ultimate presuppositions of natural ontology”
Brian Leahy – “On Presuppositional Implicature” proposes an account of “presuppositional implicatures”
Joanna Blochowiak – “The presuppositional view on causal and temporal interpretations of ‘and’”
Bart Geurts & Bob Van Tiel – “When “all the five circles” are four: new exercises in domain restriction”
Chris Cummins – “Using triggers without projecting presuppositions”
Christopher Gauker – “Presuppositions as Anaphoric Duality Enablers”
Amaia Garcia Odon – “Presupposition Projection and Conditionalization”

We are happy to announce that our Short-term collaboration program has started. The list of projects with information on their plans can be found here!

Two new publications in SIGames:

• Benz, Anton; Gotzner, Nicole (2014): „Embedded implicatures revisited: Issues with the Truth-Value Judgment Paradigm“. In: Goodman, Noah D.; Franke, Michael; Degen, Judith (Hrsg.) Formal and Experimental Pragmatics Workshop., S. 1–6.
• Gotzner, Nicole; Spalek, Katharina (2014): „Exhaustive inferences and additive presuppositions: Interplay of focus operators and contrastive intonation“. In: Goodman, Noah D.; Franke, Michael; Degen, Judith (Hrsg.) Formal and Experimental Pragmatics Workshop at ESSLLI 2014., S. 7–13.

XPrag.de projects ObTrEx, SSI and ExCl are organizing the workshop “Experimental and crosslinguistic evidence for the distinction between implicatures and presuppositions” to be held at ZAS Berlin, 1st – 3rd July 2015. The workshop description and the call for paper can be found here!

Title of the talk: “Fokusalternativen: Repräsentation und Inferenzen”
Time: Friday, January 30th, 2015, 10.15am
Venue: HU Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, Room 3.246 (room has changed!!!)

XPrag.de associate Stephanie Solt from project “Scales and their Structure” at ZAS Berlin and Scott Grimm (University of Rochester) organize the workshop “Experimental Approaches to Semantics (ExAS)” to be held August 3-7 at 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2015) in Barcelona, Spain.

The workshop description and the call for submissions can be found here!

XPrag.de projects SIGames and ProComPrag are organizing the workshop “Formal and experimental pragmatics: methodological issues of a nascent liaison”. The workshop description and the call for papers can be found here!

Visit Publications to find the very first XPrag.de publication, which is an article of Uli Sauerland on “Intermediate scalar implicatures”.