Conditionals at the Crossroads
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Conditionals at the crossroads of semantics and pragmatics
Date & Venue
November 10th – 11th, 2016, University of Konstanz, Room V 1001 (Senatssaal)
The workshop aims to bring together scholars working on linguistic issues both at the sentential and discourse level as well as scholars working at the junction of linguistics and philosophy. We invite papers on the semantics and pragmatics of conditionals both from a theoretical and an experimental perspective.
Invited speakers
Itamar Francez (University of Chicago)
Daniel Lassiter (Stanford University)
Karen Lewis (Columbia University)
Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins University)
Particular topics of interest are but are not limited to:
epistemic modals in probabilistic and non-probabilistic models
tense, aspect and mood in in the semantic composition of conditionals
Sobel sequences and related patterns
licensing in Negative Polarity Items in conditionals and related constructions
discourse particles and their occurrence in conditionals
conditional perfection and other inferences derived from the interaction between conditionals and discourse
semantics and pragmatics of quirky conditionals such as biscuit conditionals, chimerical conditionals, optative conditionals etc.
Programme
| Thursday, November 10 | |
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| 9:00 – 10:00 | INVITED TALK: Karen Lewis, Columbia University Counterfactual discourse in context |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Cory Nichols, Princeton University Solutions to Sobels and Similar Sequences |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Peter Klecha, Swarthmore College Imprecise Conditionals: Towards a Solution to Sobel Sequences |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Justin Bledin, Johns Hopkins University |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Andreas Walker (Project P2), University of Konstanz Local similarity and the puzzle of counterfactual donkey sentences |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Katrin Schulz, University of Amsterdam Fake Tense in Causal Structural Models |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Alex Kocurek, University of California, Berkeley Counteridenticals |
| 16:45 – 17:45 | INVITED TALK: Itamar Francez, University of Chicago Conditional Heterotopias |
| Friday, November 11 | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | INVITED TALK: Daniel Lassiter, Stanford University A unified probabilistic theory of conditionals |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Paolo Santorio, University of Leeds Consequence for Epistemic Conditionals: Modus Ponens, Probability, and Attitudes |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Simon Goldstein, Rutgers University Conditional Excluded Middle and Might Conditionals |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Elena Herburger, Georgetown University Duality and Conditionals in Negative Contexts |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Felicitas Enders (Project P8), University of Konstanz Unstressed doch in optatives |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Eva Csipak, University of Konstanz & Sarah Zobel, University of Göttingen/Tübingen Discourse Particles and the Connection between Conditionals and Questions |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Sam Carter & Simon Goldstein, Rutgers University Disjunction and Distributivity |
| 16:45 – 17:45 | INVITED TALK: Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University What ifs |
Organizers
María Biezma & Maribel Romero