20.755, Calls: Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 20.755, Calls: Semantics/Germany

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Date: 09-Mar-2009
From: Ilaria Frana < Ilaria.Frana at phil.uni-goettingen.de >
Subject: Frequently Asked Concealed Questions
 

	
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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:31:53
From: Ilaria Frana [Ilaria.Frana at phil.uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Frequently Asked Concealed Questions

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Full Title: Frequently Asked Concealed Questions 
Short Title: FACQs 

Date: 05-Jun-2009 - 07-Jun-2009
Location: Goettingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Ilaria Frana
Meeting Email: facq at uni-goettingen.de
Web Site: http://zis.uni-goettingen.de/events/facqs/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Call Deadline: 05-Apr-2009 

Meeting Description:

Frequently Asked Concealed Questions 

Call for Papers

The aim of the meeting is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion
of original work on concealed questions. We welcome the submission of papers on
different languages clearly articulating empirical and formal issues, including
but not limited to the following:
- Do we have strong evidence to decide on the semantic type of a DP-CQ?
(Should it be a property? an individual concept? a question? a proposition?)
- What is the best way to characterize the class of predicates that take DP-CQ
complements?
- Why do only certain nouns make good DP-CQs? Which theory on the market is best
suited to account for this fact?
- Why do certain kinds of nominal modifiers (relative clauses, superlatives)
help in recovering CQ-readings?
- What is the role of de re belief ascriptions in the derivation of CQ-readings?
- What do DP-CQs share with other DPs in intensional positions (eg, the object
DP in 'John seeks a unicorn' or the subject DP in'The temperature is rising')?
- Do we want a unified account of concealed questions and concealed exclamatives
(eg.'It's amazing the price you had to pay for that')?

Abstract Submissions
Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (20 minute presentations plus 10
minutes for discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and confined to two pages
(including examples and references) with 1-inch margins and 12-point font. One
single authored and a co-authored abstract can be submitted All abstracts must
be submitted via the Easychair platform available from the web site.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: April 5
Notification: April 30







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