[PLing] Call for papers RED 2025 (Graz) "Mismatches in anaphoric relations"

[Melker, Sarah (sarah.melker@uni-graz.at)]

Dear PLing members,


Please find below the Call for Papers for RED-2025: "Mismatches in anaphoric relations", part of the conference series on Referential Expressions in Discourse (https://red.uni-koeln.de/).


Submissions welcomed up to 15 November. Grateful for your consideration and wider circulation!


Best wishes,

Sarah Melker


Call for papers: RED-2025 “Mismatches in anaphoric relations”


Dates: 29-30 May 2025

Venue: University of Graz, Austria

Organisation: Edgar Onea (Graz) and Klaus von Heusinger (Köln)


Invited speakers: Hans Kamp (Stuttgart/Austin), Viola Schmitt (Berlin/MIT), Daniel Altshuler (Oxford)


Many aspects of anaphoric relations have received considerable attention in the last decades of linguistic research from the development of various frameworks of dynamic semantics to a multitude of experimental studies regarding the factors governing anaphoric accessibility and disambiguation. However, many questions are still open. Anaphoric pronouns, for example, share features with their anaphoric antecedents, but there can be semantic or formal mismatches in phi-features as well, thereby sometimes syntactic and sometimes semantic features of the antecedent can be ignored, if the antecedent is overt at all. The question of how features of the anaphoric pronouns are established is further complicated in copula constructions and when referring anaphorically to kinds, pluralities, events, or propositions. The same problem also comes up with demonstrative pronouns in deictic use whose antecedent is often not at all articulated. Another range of problems comes from the question of anaphoric accessibility. Especially in dialogues, direct, indirect speech and free indirect speech in narration, but also when switching between certain intensional contexts, both the empirical facts about the accessibility and the formal connection between antecedent and anaphoric expression are poorly understood. New advances in the study of Sign Languages and the semantics of gestures raise significant questions about the cross-modally valid theories of anaphoricity.


The conference brings together research on phenomena that go outside the well-established core of anaphoric relations, on theoretical modelling and experimental exploration of anaphoric relations, but also including diachronic questions and questions about the cross-modal applicability of theories of anaphoric relations.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Formal and semantic features of anaphoric pronouns

Ontology and accessibility of anaphoric antecedents

Demonstrative vs. anaphoric pronouns

The role of prominence and discourse coherence/discourse structure in anaphoric relations

Anaphoric reference in narratives and dialogue

Anaphoric reference in Sign Languages


Abstracts

We invite theoretical and empirical contributions for 30 min presentations (plus 15 min for discussion) in English. Abstracts should be anonymous and not longer than two pages (Times New Roman 12 pt., single space, 2.4 cm margins) as a PDF. Please submit per e-mail to: sarah.melker at uni-graz.at


Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2024

Notification to authors: 15 December 2024

Conference: 29-30 May 2025


Contact: sarah.melker at uni-graz.at
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