Polarity From Different Perspectives, March 11-13, 2005
Workshop sponsored by the Department of Linguistics, New York University.
This workshop will bring together representatives of several fields to explore questions such as, What is the relation between positive polarity, negative polarity, and negative concord? What family of syntactic relations does polarity licensing belong to, and how does it interact with grammatical architecture? Does polarity sensitivity derive from scalar semantics/pragmatics? Given that polarity items and their licensors come in many flavors, is there a unified theory for polarity? What insights do monotonicity properties offer into inferencing in logical, computational, and psychological terms? How are polarity properties acquired?
Invited speakers:
- Luis Alonso-Ovalle
- Raffaella Bernardi
- Marcel den Dikken
- Anastasia Giannakidou
- Elena Guerzoni
- William Ladusaw
- Oystein Nilsen
- Paul Postal
- Anna Szabolcsi
All those planning to attend are kindly asked to preregister.
Call for electronic posters:
If you wish to attend the workshop and participate in the discussion, you are welcome to submit an electronic poster to the workshop web site. Electronic posters will be reviewed only for pertinence to the topic. They should summarize recent work that is unpublished or otherwise not widely known.
Electronic posters should be up to 1000 words, ideally in .html format, or else in .pdf. Please create a text that is easy to read off the screen, in terms of wording, organization, and typography. Examples and analyses should be presented in their logical order, not on separate pages as in some conference abstracts.
Each poster should start with the name, affiliation, email address, and possibly home page link of the author(s), followed by the title. We will not post submissions that do not contain the author information. Please email the file to the address specified at the workshop web site by February 10, 2005.
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