{"id":2934,"date":"2015-08-17T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?page_id=2934"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T17:04:18","slug":"workshop-disjunction-days-theoretical-and-experimental-perspectives-on-the-semantics-and-pragmatics-of-disjunction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?page_id=2934","title":{"rendered":"Workshop “Disjunction Days: Theoretical and experimental perspectives on the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Organizers:<\/strong>
\nNicole Gotzner (SIGames, ZAS Berlin), Uli Sauerland (SSI, ZAS Berlin) and Maribel Romero (BiasQ, Universit\u00e4t Konstanz)<\/p>\n

Time and Venue:<\/strong>
\n2 – 3 June 2016, Zentrum f\u00fcr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS Berlin),
\nTalks in Trajekte-Raum (room 308, 3rd floor), Poster session in Room 403, 4th floor
\nHow to get to ZAS!<\/a><\/p>\n

Invited speakers:<\/strong>
\nMaria Aloni (University of Amsterdam), Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong>
\nNicole Gotzner (nicole.gotzner-Irgend ein Text-<\/span>@googlemail.com<\/span>)
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\nAim of the workshop:<\/strong>
\nThe favorite English word of all pragmaticists should be the disjunction “or”: So much pragmatic research is dedicated to conditions of use of the simple disjunction. Disjunction is so interesting pragmatically because its logical meaning is very prominent, but at the same time it cannot be used in most context without indicating some ignorance. “My husband has blue or brown eyes” would be an odd thing to say, because it suggests that the speaker is ignorant about her (or his) husband’s eye color. So the difference between the literal sentence meaning and the speaker’s meaning is very clear.
\nThe emergence of experimental pragmatics incorporating precise semantic models and formal experiments has lead to much progress on the understanding of disjunction. This workshop provides a forum for the comparison of current, competing semantic and pragmatic theories of disjunction. Recent important theoretical contributions include the idea to build the alternatives into the semantics of “or” (Alonso-Ovalle 2006, 2008), accounts of free-choice “or” (Fox 2007) as well as various accounts of Hurford’s constraint (Singh 2008, Meyer 2013, 2015, Singh & Katzir 2013, Chierchia, et al. 2012, Fox & Spector submitted).
\nIn addition, there are many strands of experiment based research that have contributed to our understanding of disjunction and that we hope to see represented at this workshop. Experimental work has probed the behaviour disjunction under embedding, in upward and downward entailing contexts (Schwarz et al. 2008, Chemla & Spector 2011), its interaction with focus (Chevalier et al. 2008) and cross-linguistic diversity (Davidson 2014). The greatest contribution to our understanding of disjunction has possibly been made by language acquisition research (Chierchia et al. 2001, Crain 2008, Su et al. 2013, Tieu et al. 2015, Singh et al. submitted).<\/p>\n

Thursday, June 2nd 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time<\/th>\nEvent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 – 9:10<\/td>\nWELCOME<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:10 – 10:10<\/td>\n“Only The Dark Knight is free to choose” (slides)<\/a>
\nInvited talk by Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n		10:10 – 10:50<\/td>\n“Conjunctive Disjunctions: Evidence for the Ambiguity Theory” (abstract)<\/a>
\nUli Sauerland & Kazuko Yatsushiro (ZAS Berlin)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:50 – 11:10<\/td>\nCOFFEE BREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:10 – 11:50<\/td>\n“Anti-Free Choice disjunctions and obligatory ignorance” (slides)<\/a>
\nNatalia Ivlieva<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:50 – 12:30<\/td>\n“Negated disjunctive statements: the Italian perspective” (slides)<\/a>
\nElena Pagliarini, Stephen Crain and Maria Teresa Guasti<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 – 14:00<\/td>\nLUNCH BREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:00 – 16:00<\/td>\nPoster session with coffee in Room 403<\/strong>!<\/td>\n
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16:00 – 16:40<\/td>\n“Symmetry, Pruning, and Brevity” (slides)<\/a>
\nMarie-Christine Meyer<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:40 – 17:20<\/td>\n“A unified account of the distributive and free choice inferences of disjunction under modals” (slides)<\/a>
\nPaolo Santorio and Jacopo Romoli<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:30 <\/td>\nDinner at Tapas y mas<\/a>
\nNeue Gr\u00fcnstra\u00dfe 17. 10179 Berlin-Mitte<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Friday, June 3rd 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time<\/th>\nEvent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
9:10 – 10:10<\/td>\n“Disjunctions in state-based semantics” (slides)<\/a>
\nInvited talk by Maria Aloni<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:10 – 10:50<\/td>\n“Strong Exhaustivity, Alternative Questions and Monotonicity:
\nSome thoughts on Cremers & Chemla (2016)” (slides)<\/a>
\nMaribel Romero<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:50 – 11:10<\/td>\nCOFFEE BREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:10 – 11:50<\/td>\n“How basic is the notion of alternative? A diachronic typology of disjunction” (slides)<\/a>
\nCaterina Mauri<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:50 – 12:30<\/td>\n“Turkish disjunctions and the morphological realization of exh<\/em>” (abstract)<\/a>
\nCan Mekik and Raj Singh<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 – 14:00<\/td>\nLUNCH BREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:00 – 14:40<\/td>\n“Embedded disjunctions and the Best Response Paradigm” (slides)<\/a>
\nAnton Benz & Nicole Gotzner<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:40 – 15:20<\/td>\n“Exclusive disjunction: implicature or …” (slides)<\/a>
\nMichael Franke & Bob van Tiel<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:20 – 15:40<\/td>\nCOFFEE BREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:40 \u2013 16:20<\/td>\n“The interpretation of disjunction involving negative linguistic contexts in Mandarin Chinese” (slides)<\/a>
\nNa Gao, Stephen Crain, Peng Zhou and Rosalind Thornton<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:20 \u2013 17:00<\/td>\n“Disjunction under if<\/em>” (handout)<\/a>
\nElena Herburger<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:00 \u2013 17:10<\/td>\n CLOSING REMARKS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Program Committee<\/strong>
\nNicole Gotzner
\nUli Sauerland
\nMaribel Romero
\nMaria Aloni
\nStephen Crain
\nJack Tomlinson
\nKazuko Yatsushiro
\nClemens Mayr
\nMarie-Christine Meyer
\nAndreea Nicolae
\nAnton Benz
\nBob van Tiel
\nYaron McNabb
\nLyn Tieu
\nJacopo Romoli<\/p>\n

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