AG 9: The role of semantic extension and pragmatics in synchronic language change, language development and language variation

Mittwoch | Wednesday, 05.03.2025

13:45-14:15

Guendalina Reul (Köln), Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (U South Australia) & Petra B. Schumacher (Köln)

Ad hoc metonymy in naturalistic contexts: The role of individual differences in conventionalisation

14:15-14:45

Camilo R. Ronderos (Oslo)

Developmental evidence for distinguishing between aptness and conventionality in metaphor comprehension

14:45-15:45

Kenny Smith (Edinburgh)

The experimental study of semantic extension in novel communication systems

15:45-16:30

PAUSE | BREAK

16:30-17:00

Ira Noveck (CNRS, Université Paris Cité)

What needs to happen for a pragmatic phenomenon to get conventionalized?

17:00-18:00

Anna Kapron-King, Simon Kirby, Graeme Trousdale & Kenny Smith (Edinburgh)

Grammatical unidirectionality is not reflected in individual preferences when performing artificial semantic extension

Donnerstag | Thursday, 06.03.2025

09:00-9:30

Maria Teresa Borneo (Yale)

Metonymization in language change: the case of English ‘manner of motion’ verbs

9:30-10:30

Nicholas Allott (Oslo)

Polysemy, semantic change, and lexical representations

10:30-11:15

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11:15-12:15

Ingrid Lossius Falkum (Oslo)

The development of lexical modulation: pragmatics, polysemy and sense conventions

12:15-12:45

Julia Heine, Martin Fuchs & Malte Rosemeyer (FU Berlin)

(Lack of) reanalysis of ‘FINISH + GERUND’ in English: experimentally assessing the role of subordination and informativity in bridging contexts

12:45-13:45

MITTAGSPAUSE | LUNCH BREAK

13:45-14:15

Ioli Baroncini, Anna Michelotti & Helen Engemann (Mannheim)

How motion event framing changes in synchrony: evidence from Italian native and heritage language speakers

14:15-14:45

Elena Ongaro (Göttingen)

The semanto-pragmatic development of the German sentence adverb leider (‘unfortunately’) as a process of metonymic shift and semantic extension

Freitag | Friday, 07.03.2025

11:45-12:45

Zachary Houghton (University of California Davis), Zara Harmon (MPI Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) & Vsevolod Kapat­sinski (University of Oregon)

Accessibility vs. inference in accessibility-driven semantic extension

Madeleine Butschety (Nova Gorica) & Maja Melinc Mlekuž (Nova Gorica): In fact(ives) exactly the opposite: synchronic semantic change of factive verbs in the Slovene minority in Italy

Maja Melinc Mlekuž (Nova Gorica) & Madeleine Butschety (Nova Gorica): One verb to break them all: razbiti ‘to break’ in Italian-Slovene

12:45-13:15

Closing

Zachary Houghton (University of California Davis), Zara Harmon (MPI Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) & Vsevolod Kapat­sinski (University of Oregon): Accessibility vs. inference in accessibility-driven semantic extension

Closing