29.529, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-529. Tue Jan 30 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.529, Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:22:32
From: Maria Biezma [maria.biezma at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Meaning in Non-Canonical Questions

 
Full Title: Meaning in Non-Canonical Questions 
Short Title: MiQs 

Date: 07-Jun-2018 - 09-Jun-2018
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact Person: MiQs Organizers
Meeting Email: meaning.in.questions at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/meaning-in-questions 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 04-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

Much work has been done to understand the semantics and pragmatics of
interrogative clauses in natural language. In this workshop, we aim to expand
and further develop this work by focusing on non-canonical questions. We are
especially interested in papers addressing the empirical landscape and the
semantic/pragmatic modeling of the ways of raising issues that go beyond plain
information-seeking. Possible phenomena of interest include, but are by no
means limited to:

Discourse particles in interrogatives
Question-Particles in interrogative clauses (e.g. Kya in Hindi/Urdu, mI in
Turkish)
Word order in questions
Self-addressed questions
Rhetorical questions
Biased questions
Tag-Questions
Embedding of canonical and non-canonical questions
The role of prosody in shaping non-canonical questions

Invited Speakers: 

Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers University) 
Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Benjamin Spector (CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure - Institut Jean Nicod)
Malte Zimmermann (Universität Potsdam) 

The workshop is under the umbrella of the DFG funded research unit (FOR2111)
Questions at the interfaces
(https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/questionsInterfaces/)

Organizers: 

Andrea Beltrama
María Biezma
Erlinde Meertens
Maribel Romero
Ramona Wallner


2nd Call for Papers:

This is the second call for papers for the workshop Meaning in Non-Canonical
Questions, to be held by the Linguistics Department at the University of
Konstanz on June 7-9. The deadline for abstract submission is February 4!

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with
additional 15 minutes for discussion). Abstracts must be anonymous and should
be at most 2 pages (US Letter or A4) in length, including examples and
references, using a 12pt font with 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins for US letter and 3
cm for A4 paper, on all four sides. Abstracts must be submitted as a single
PDF. Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being
single-authored. 

Deadline for Submission: February 4!
Link for submissions (Easychair):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miq2018
Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/view/meaning-in-questions/home
Organization e-mail: meaning.in.questions at gmail.com
Local Organizers: Andrea Beltrama, María Biezma, Erlinde Meertens, Maribel
Romero, Ramona Wallner




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