WORKSHOP

NON-ASSERTORIC SPEECH ACTS

28 – 29 January 2021

University of Amsterdam and Institute for Logic, Language and Computation

Supported by the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 758540).

SPEAKERS

Leïla Bussière (Amsterdam)
Laura Caponetto (Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan)
Fausto Carcassi (Amsterdam)
Daniel W. Harris (Hunter College, New York)
Manfred Krifka (ZAS Berlin)
Craige Roberts (NYU / Ohio State)
Giorgio Sbardolini (Amsterdam)

PROGRAMME

Thursday January 28th

15h — 16h: Manfred Krifka — Performative Updates and the Modelling of Non-Assertoric vs. Assertoric Speech Acts
16h30 — 17h30: Leïla Bussière — Retractions and Common Ground
18h — 19h: Daniel W. Harris — Assertions vs Directives

Friday January 29th

15h — 16h: Giorgio Sbardolini and Fausto Carcassi — Updates and Boolean Universals
16h30 — 17h30: Laura Caponetto — On Refusing
18h — 19h: Craige Roberts — Imperatives in a Dynamic Pragmatics [handout]

Abstracts

Abstracts are available here.

VENUE

The workshop will take place online via Zoom.

REGISTRATION

Attendance is free. To register please contact us at the email address below. Registered participants will be provided with the necessary details to attend the online meeting.

CONTACT

Email: inferentialexpressivism@gmail.com