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

Guendalina Reul (U Köln) & Camilo R. Ronderos (U Oslo)

13:45 – 14:15	Guendalina Reul, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky & Petra B. Schumacher (University of South Australia, University of Cologne) Ad hoc metonymy in naturalistic contexts: The role of individual differences in conventionalisation
14:15 – 14:45	Camilo R. Ronderos (University of Oslo) Developmental evidence for distinguishing between aptness and conventionality in metaphor comprehension
14:45 – 15:45	Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh) The experimental study of semantic extension in novel communication systems
15:45 – 16:30	Kaffeepause
16:30 – 17:00	Ira Noveck (CNRS) What do conventional implicatures reveal about the extent to which utterances engage mentalizing
17:00 – 18:00	Anna Kapron-King, Simon Kirby, Graeme Trousdale, Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh) Grammatical unidirectionality is not reflected in individual preferences when performing artificial semantic extension

09:00 – 09:30	Maria Teresa Borneo (Yale University) Metonymization in language change: the case of English 'manner of motion' verbs.
09:30 – 10:30	Nicholas Allott (University of Oslo) Polysemy, semantic change, and lexical representations
10:30 – 11:15	Kaffeepause
11:15 – 12:15	Ingrid Lossius Falkum (University of Oslo) The development of lexical modulation: pragmatics, polysemy and sense conventions
12:15 – 12:45	Julia Heine, Martin Fuchs, Malte Rosemeyer (Freie Universität 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
13:45 – 14:15	Ioli Baroncini, Anna Michelotti, Helen Engemann (University of Mannheim) How motion event framing changes in synchrony: Evidence from Italian Native and Heritage Language Speakers
14:15 – 14:45	Elena Ongaro (University of Göttingen) The semanto-pragmatic development of the German sentence adverb leider (‘unfortunately’) as a process of metonymic shift and semantic extension

11:45 – 12:15	Madeleine Butschety, Maja Melinc Mlekuž (University of Graz, University of Ljubljana) In fact(ives) exactly the opposite: Synchronic semantic change of factive verbs in the Slovene minority in Italy
12:15 – 12:45	Maja Melinc Mlekuž, Madeleine Butschety (University of Ljubljana, University of Graz) One verb to break them all: Razbiti ('to break') in Italian-Slovene
12:45 – 13:45	Zachary Houghton, Zara Harmon and Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of California, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, University of Oregon) Accessibility vs. inference in accessibility-driven semantic extension
13:45 – 14:15	Closing