CRISSP is happy to announce a three-day lecture series on the semantics and pragmatics of negation.
Lecturer: Larry Horn (Yale)
Title: Semantics ∩ Pragmatics: Issues in the intersection
Date & time: 5, 6, 7 December 2011, 10.00-13.00
Location: CRISSP/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Stormstraat 2, room 6303
Participation: free
Lectures:
- On negative polarity: the “licensing problem” revisited
Abstract (pdf) | Handout (pdf) - Pragmatic strengthening: contrariety and disjunctive syllogism
Abstract (pdf) | Handout (pdf) - The landscape of non-at-issue meaning: case studies
Abstract (pdf)| Handout (pdf)