August 8-12, 2011, in Ljubljana, Slovenia
This workshop (organized
by Craige
Roberts and Judith
Tonhauser, both at The Ohio State University) brings together a
variety of perspectives on the topic of projective meanings, that
class of meaning elements which tend to survive as utterance
implications even when the triggering expression is embedded under the
syntactic scope of entailment-cancelling operators. This class
includes the projective contents of presupposition triggers, but also
Conventional Implicatures, some evidentials, and other
non-presuppositional but projecting content. The central purpose of
the workshop, which will feature papers as well as a poster session, is
to foster dialogue among scholars working on these topics, with a
special interest in broadening the empirical base of the discussion by
drawing in researchers working on projective meanings in languages
other than English.
The workshop is preceded by the advanced ESSLLI 2011 course
"Projective
meaning: Formal approaches and cross-linguistic evidence", (August
1-5, 2011), taught by Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser, both at the
Ohio State University.
The course and the workshop are organized with the support
of the US National Science Foundation (grant #0952571, "Semantics and
Pragmatics of Projective Meaning across Languages'") to Craige Roberts
(OSU) and Judith Tonhauser (OSU), with collaborative grants to David
Beaver (UT Austin) and Mandy Simons (CMU).
Here's the program of the workshop.
Please contact projective "at" ling.osu.edu with questions or comments.