Workshop 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)

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

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

Coffee break

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

Thursday, March 06, 2025

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

Coffee break

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

Lunch break

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

Friday, March 07, 2024

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