<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos;"><p class="p1" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Dear all,</p><p class="p2" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The University of Göttingen is hosting a workshop on polar questions across languages this spring, and we thought it might be of interest to you. We would greatly appreciate if you circulated the following call for abstracts around your department or other mailing lists! </p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Kind regards, </p><p class="p1" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">POQAL Organizers<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></p><div style="border-width: medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor windowtext; border-image: none; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p></div><p class="text" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Polar Questions Across Languages April 29-30, 2025, University of Göttingen</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><b>Call for papers :<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br><br></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">After the success of our initial two workshops focused on meaning and form, we are excited to launch a third POQAL meeting, this time without subject limitations. We hope to welcome your research on polar(-like) questions, especially in lesser studied languages and dimensions of form and meaning. As before, the aim is to discuss the phenomenon across subdisciplines and we will do everything we can to curate a program to facilitate the inclusion of a diversity of approaches. Join us in Göttingen this spring!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">How is polar question meaning best analyzed with respect to other question types? What is the range of non-canonical questions and what do these say about the meaning and representation of polar questions? How to best handle bias and other inferences? How are polar questions expressed in syntax, morphology, intonation? How do components of the grammar of each language constrain and determine these ways, e.g., in the inventory of functional categories, the expression of negation, focus, polarity, intonational characteristics, pragmatic division of labor among forms? How do fine grammatical components correlate with fine components of meaning? What crosslinguistic generalizations can be made in this new level of granularity?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The last decades have seen a steady increase in work on meaning of polar questions, with relatively new notions like bias becoming front and center. The empirical scope has also extended, to include not only plain interrogatives but also declaratives, question tags, and alternative questions. These forms raise important questions about the relationship between form and meaning, as the so-called non-canonical forms induce finer components of meaning like bias.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Beyond these polar-like question forms familiar from widely studied languages; various other lexical and structural means are deployed to form paradigms of polar-like questions across languages. These include various particles, forms related to embedding, negation and focus. It is sometimes not clear how canonicality applies to these paradigms, yet different forms relate to different components of complex polar question meaning.Proposals have been made that the syntax and prosody of polar questions hold a discrete complexity, with dedicated components spelling out pieces of the question act.</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This workshop aims to bring together work that continues this line of research by looking closely into expression strategies of polar questions. We invite abstracts that formally address aspects of polar(-like) question forms across languages, and theorize on polar question form and its relation to meaning based on a wide range of data of forms as well as languages. We are particularly excited to hear about analyses of fine components of meaning, formal grammatical phenomena such as clausal structure, embedding, negation, focus and intonation, the relationship of these phenomena to fine components of meaning, descriptive work on novel formal and pragmatic phenomena in lesser studied languages, and emerging crosslinguistic generalizations at this level of analysis.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Aptos; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please limit abstracts of max. 2 pages to two abstracts per (co-)author and send to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:poqal.workshop@proton.me" title="mailto:poqal.workshop@proton.me" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">poqal.workshop@proton.me</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><b>Invited speakers:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0.5in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br></span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://natasha-korotkova.github.io/" title="https://natasha-korotkova.github.io/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">Natasha Korotkova</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(University College Utrecht)</span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://cogsci.jhu.edu/directory/kyle-rawlins/" title="https://cogsci.jhu.edu/directory/kyle-rawlins/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">Kyle Rawlins</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Johns Hopkins University)</span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/en/personen/professorenseiten/prof-dr-sophie-repp" title="https://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/en/personen/professorenseiten/prof-dr-sophie-repp" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">Sophie Repp</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(University of Cologne)</span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/romero/" title="https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/romero/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">Maribel Romero</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(University Konstanz)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><b>Important data:</b><br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0.5in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br></span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Abstracts due: February 20, 2026</span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Decisions announced: February 28, 2026</span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">WS Date: April 29-30, 2026<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">WS location:<a href="https://lageplan.uni-goettingen.de/" title="https://lageplan.uni-goettingen.de/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">University of Göttingen</span></a>(Historische Sternwarte)</span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Contact persons: Ateş Çalışır, Beste Kamali<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To contact the organizers, please use the following email:<a href="mailto:poqal.workshop@proton.me" title="mailto:poqal.workshop@proton.me" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">poqal.workshop@proton.me</span></a></span></p><p class="content" style="font-size: 16px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33); margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background: rgb(247, 247, 247);"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Previous editions:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/poqal-amsterdam/" title="https://sites.google.com/view/poqal-amsterdam/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 163); text-decoration: none;">https://sites.google.com/view/poqal-2/home</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </p></body></html>