29.1279, Calls: General Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 29.1279, Calls: General Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:43:16
From: Katharina Kaiser [katharina.kaiser at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Recent Issues in the Syntax of Questions

 
Full Title: Recent Issues in the Syntax of Questions 
Short Title: risq2018 

Date: 08-Oct-2018 - 10-Oct-2018
Location: Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 
Contact Person: Katharina Kaiser
Meeting Email: katharina.kaiser at uni-konstanz.de
Web Site: http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/fachbereich/aktuelles-und-termine/risq-2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The linguistic study of questions has a long history. Nevertheless, problems
with questions still lack agreed-upon solutions in many respects -- partial
movement and copy movement questions are a case in point. Another one is
wh-in-situ. While information-seeking questions continue to be in the center
of attention, the last few years have seen an enhanced interest in various
other types: rhetorical questions, deliberative questions,
surprise/disapproval questions, echo questions, emphatic or exclaimed
questions etc. Syntactically, languages differ with respect to the formation
of information-seeking and non-information-seeking questions. They either
require the wh-phrase to be fronted into a sentence-initial position or they
need to leave the wh-phrase in its in-situ position. They may depart from this
general behavior for some pragmatic reasons. Still, there are some languages
which are “in between” since they optionally allow both word order patterns.

This workshop intends to bring together syntacticians and semanticists who
work on questions in typologically different languages. The goal is to look
for convergence across comparable question types across languages or language
families.

Invited Speakers:

- Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng (Universiteit Leiden)
- Hamida Demirdache (Université de Nantes)
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore)
- Nomi Erteschik-Shir (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) 

Organizing committee

Josef Bayer
Georg A. Kaiser
Katharina Kaiser


Call for Papers:

Aside from the invited speakers, there will be room for a maximum of 20 papers
of 30 minutes to be presented. Abstracts should be maximally 800 words long
(excluding references). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 31,
2018.

Please submit your papers via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/cfp/risq2018
.




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