| Time: | May 21 – 22, 2014 |
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Workshop on Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Questions in Discourse
(Fifth Meeting of the DFG Network on Questions in Discourse)
University of Stuttgart, Campus Vaihingen
Workshop description
This workshop follows a series of earlier meetings (Frankfurt, Paris, Potsdam, Amsterdam). The overall goal of the DFG network Questions in Discourse is to work towards a better understanding of the nature of questions as semantic objects, and their role in the interpretation of natural discourse. Central issues are the role of explicit and implicit questions in determining information structure, as well as recent developments in Inquisitive Semantics, which have lead to a new notion of meaning which encompasses both informative and inquisitive content. The Stuttgart workshop will focus on two particular issues:
- Empirical methods for research on the role of implicit question interpretation (including psycholinguistic research, corpus work, and field work)
- Questions under Discussion and conventional implicatures
Invited speakers
- Scott AnderBois (Brown University)
- Elizabeth Coppock (University of Gothenburg)
- Jonathan Ginzburg (University Paris-Diderot)
- Jeroen Groenendijk (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
- Jacques Jayez (ENS Lyon)
- Judith Tonhauser (Ohio State University)
Program
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(invited talks: 45 min + 15 min discussion, regular talks 30 min +10 min)
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Elektrotechnik-Gebäude, Pfaffenwaldring 47, Fakultätssaal (room 4.282, fourth floor) map
| 9:00 | 9:10 | Welcome |
| 9:10 | 10:10 | Liz Coppock (invited speaker): Scalar modifiers in Inquisitive Semantics with ordered alternatives |
| 10:10 | 10:50 | Matthijs Westera: The QUD guessing game. How it's played, and how to avoid it (based on joint work with Adrian Brasoveanu) |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | break |
| 11:10 | 12:10 | Jeroen Groenendijk (invited speaker) & Floris Roelofsen: Suppositional Inquisitive Semantics |
| 12:10 | 12:50 | Henk Zeevat & Maria Spychalska: Uninquisitive superlative quantification |
| 12:50 | 14:30 | lunch |
| 14:30 | 15:30 | Scott AnderBois (invited speaker): Evidentiality and modality in discourse: the case of conjecturals |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | break |
| 15:50 | 16:30 | Márta Abrusán & Julie Hunter: Discourse topic |
| 16:30 | 17:30 | Jonathan Ginzburg (invited speaker): Interrogative answers |
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Location: Elektrotechnik-Gebäude, Pfaffenwaldring 47, Fakultätssaal (room 4.282, 4th floor), map
| 9:00 | 10:00 | Judith Tonhauser (invited speaker): Indirect answers to polar questions: scalar inferencing and the rise-fall-rise contour (joint work with Marie-Catherine de Marneffe) |
| 10:00 | 10:40 | Tania Rojas-Esponda: Systematic patterns for focused/unfocused particle pairs |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | break |
| 11:00 | 11:40 | Hans Kamp: Questioning as a propositional attitude: on the structure of complex content-bearing mental states |
| 11:40 | 12:20 | Ivano Ciardelli & Floris Roelofsen: Composing alternatives |
| 12:20 | 13:00 | Gregory Kierstead & Craige Roberts: Evidentiality at issue |
| 13:00 | 14:20 | lunch |
| 14:20 | 15:00 | David Beaver & Edgar Onea: Almost at issue |
| 15:00 | 16:00 | Jacques Jayez (invited speaker): The grammatical marking of discourse planning |
| 16:00 | final discussion |
After the workshop, we will explore the surroundings of Stuttgart, on a little wine hike.
Organised by Arndt Riester (Stuttgart), Edgar One (Göttingen), Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam)
This workshop is funded by
