Craige Roberts and Judith Tonhauser. Workshop on Projective Meaning

This workshop aims to bring together a variety of perspectives on the topic of projective meanings, that class of meaning elements which tend to survive as utterance implications even when the triggering expression is embedded under the syntactic scope of entailment-cancelling operators. This class includes the projective contents of classical presupposition triggers, but also Conventional Implicatures, some evidentials, and other non-presuppositional but projecting content.  The workshop will address fundamental questions pertaining to this class: How can projective meaning be identified reliably across languages? Do projective meanings share any unifying property? Do projective meanings interact semantically with ordinary meaning or with each other, and what that might that  tell us about the appropriate form of a theory of interpretation?  The workshop will include a poster session to foster broader participation, as well as papers selected from submitted abstracts. Those who work on under-studied languages are especially encouraged to participate.

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