Call for papers

Linguists, logicians, philosophers, psychologists, and interested researchers from other areas are cordially invited to join the 24th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics on March 8 to 11, 2024.

We especially invite papers on this year's special theme: the limits of the lexicon. This theme addresses questions concerning the scope of lexical meaning and (cognitive and universal) constraints on the lexicon. Possible topics include:

- Rich versus thin lexical meanings

- Under- versus over-specification

- Thick concepts

- Expressive and social lexical meaning

- Lexical meaning and emotion

- Conventional versus non-conventional lexical meaning

- Distributional semantics

- Universals in lexical meaning

- The processing of lexical meaning

This year's confirmed invited speakers are:

• Mora Maldonado (Université de Nantes)

• Dan Zeman  (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

• Jakub Dotlačil (Utrecht University)

We also welcome contributions relevant to any of the more classical subjects of this workshop series. Experimental as well as theoretical approaches are welcome. We in particular encourage the presentation of innovative ideas, even if still in need of later refinement and submissions by students who have no previous experience presenting at international workshops.

More traditional Szklarska Poręba themes include:

- Coordination on meaning

- Inference in natural language

- Experimental semantics and pragmatics

- Bayesian models of interpretation

- Quantum cognition and language

- Grammaticalisation and other approaches to diachrony

- Language typology and semantics/pragmatics

- Game theoretical pragmatics

- Formal models of language acquisition

- Explicature and implicature

- The architecture of the syntax/semantics interface

- Licensing of polarity elements, quantification etc.

- The evolution of communication and language

- Optimality theory

Submission instructions

We invite submission of BLIND abstracts in PDF format, to be sent to:

szklarskaworkshop (AT) gmail (DOT) com by December 22, 2023. (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

Acceptance decisions will be made by mid January.

Abstract guidelines are:

No longer than one A4 page including references, 2.5cm margins, 11pt. If this is your first presentation outside of your home institution, please indicate this in your cover email.