Organized by Savina Raynaud (savina.raynaud@unicatt.it), Maria Paola Tenchini (paola.tenchini@unicatt.it), Marco Passarotti marco.passarotti@unicatt.it, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Taking as point of departure the axiom according to which linguistic phenomena are many-sided and many-levelled significative structure, we wish to prove and illustrate this thesis on as many sides and levels as possible.
The investigation on this point involves different linguistic and metalinguistic levels, focussing on how different items correlate or coordinate themselves to achieve complex morpho-lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic structures and results.
Since such a general managing property is a peculiarity of historic natural languages, proposals may deal with a broad range of themes, historical periods, theoretical or historical perspectives, and linguistic areas. Here some possible topics:
• Parts and wholes, parts and moments, atoms and molecules
• The principles of compositionality vs. contextuality
• Ellipses vs implicit, implicatures, presuppositions, inferences
• Synsemantical, synmpractical, symphysical way of signifying
• Syntactic structures: analysis synthesis synthemata syntagmata
• Predication: functions, arguments, values
• Speech act theory and multi-act semantics
• Stylistic differences: lapidary and polyarthric speech
• Lexicon: productivity in derivation and composition
• Lexical / verbal periphrases as “supportive verbs” or lexical functions
• Indexicals and their partly stable, partly contextual semantic dependency
• Discrete and continuous in Natural Language Processing
References
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Bühler, Karl (1934), Sprachtheorie, G. Fischer, Jena
Frege, Gottlob (1892) Über Begriff und Gegenstand, “Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie”, 16(2), pp. 192–205
Grice, Paul (1975) “Logic and Conversation” (1975), in P. Cole e J. Morgan (eds.), Syntax and semantics, vol. 3, New York: Academic Press, pp. 41–58
Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1836), Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwicklung des Menschengeschlechts in Id. (1903–36), Gesammelte Schriften, ed. by Albert Leitzmann, reprint, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1968, vol. vii, pp. 1–344
Leška, Oldřích. 2012, Papers on Prague School Linguistics, ed. by Bohumil Vykypěl, Vít Boček. München, Lincom
Pagin, Peter and Westerståhl, Dag (eds), Compositionality: “Journal of Logic, Language, and Information”, 2001 (10)
Simondon, Gilbert, (2005) L’individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d’information, Grenoble, Millon
Smith, Barry (ed.), (1982), Parts and Moments, München, Philosophia Verlag
Uznadze, Dimitri (1924), Ein experimenteller Beitrag zum Problem der psychologischen Grundlagen der Namengebung, “Psychologische Forschung” 5, 24-43
Key Words: 1. Compositionality 2. Contextuality 3. Oversummativity 4. Undersummativity 5. Principle of economy
This workshop is intended to be an open workshop. Colleagues are welcome to join.
Proposals (a pdf file, consisting of a description of a maximum of 400 words, including bibliography and up to five keywords) are to be submitted not later than May 15, 2024.
Presentation slots will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 5 to 10 minutes of questions and discussion. A selection of papers will be part of a subsequent, peer reviewed publication.
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