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Workshop : New Ideas on Mood
May 14-15, 2020
Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, Paris
Salle L369 ; 24 rue Lohmond 75005 Paris
Standard accounts of mood in formal semantics consider it to be a heterogenous notional category that encompasses sentential (imperative, questions, exclamations) and verbal mood (indicative, subjunctive, optative) as two distinct grammatical categories. As for verbal mood, across a variety of theories (such as the work of Giorgi & Pianesi, Farkas, Giannakidou, Quer, Villalta, Schlenker, Silk), mood is considered to be triggered by the modal properties of the predicate and not as contributing meaning itself. Moreover, these theories have by and large focused on the semantic properties which trigger mood choice, and with few exceptions (such as Giorgi & Pianesi and Homer) do not consider pragmatic factors.
Recent studies have reconsidered some of these ideas (e.g. Portner & Rubinstein to appear). New insights are emerging that reconsider the status of verbal mood as a mere mirror of the semantics of the predicate and attend to the pragmatic factors which influence mood choice. In parallel, this new work on verbal mood has also shed new light on the semantics of the attitudes themselves and brings (back, cf. the work of Giorgi & Pianesi and Farkas) into focus the value of crosslinguistic comparison. As a result, a new picture is emerging that encompasses more coherent view about mood, at the interface between speech acts and modality at the semantic-pragmatic interface.
In this workshop we aim to renew discussion of some of the foundational assumptions of theories of mood. In addition to the invited speakers, we welcome submissions for poster presentations on the workshop topic. Please send a 1-page abstract by email to alda.mari29@gmail.com by April 1, 2020 (object : workshop mood).
Invited speakers :
Lena Baunaz (Geneva)
Anastasia Giannakidou (Chicago)
Alessandra Giorgi (Venice)
Thomas Grano (Indiana)
Valentine Hacquard (Maryland)
Elena Herburger (Georgetown)
Vincent Homer (Umass)
Salvador Mascarenhas (IJN, ENS)
Maribel Romero (Konstanz)
Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Organizers
Alda Mari (IJN, CNRS/ENS/EHESS/PSL)
Paul Portner (Georgetown)