30.1039, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 30.1039, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 23:59:56
From: Alexander Wimmer [alex_wimmer2002 at yahoo.de]
Subject: Workshop Exhaustivity in Questions and Answers - Experimental and Theoretical Approaches

 
Full Title: Workshop Exhaustivity in Questions and Answers - Experimental and Theoretical Approaches 
Short Title: ExQA 

Date: 13-Jun-2019 - 14-Jun-2019
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Carla Bombi
Meeting Email: exquestionsanswers at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=6207 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2019 

Meeting Description:

Understanding exhaustivity effects is central to the modeling of the semantics
and pragmatics of questions, yet many issues regarding these effects remain
unresolved. For more than 30 years, there have been theoretical debates on key
components of the analysis of exhaustivity in questions and answers,
including, but not limited to:

- the status of the exhaustivity inference (semantic/pragmatic) (Dayal 1996,
Nicolae 2013)
- different levels of exhaustivity (strong, intermediate and weak) (Heim 1994,
Beck & Rullmann 1999, Spector 2006, Klinedinst & Rothschild 2011)
- the availability of mention-some interpretations (Groenendijk & Stokhof
1982, George 2011, Xiang 2016, Fox 2017)
- the difference between matrix and embedded questions (George 2011)

Among the aspects influencing question exhaustivity (both embedded and
unembedded) are discourse/exhaustifying particles, priority modals and
conversation goals. Some of these aspects have been argued to license
non-exhaustive, so-called mention-some, interpretations. As for embedded
questions, one issue debated in the literature is how different  types of
question embedding verbs influence the availability of (non-)exhaustive
readings of the question. For instance, while it is widely believed – at least
since Heim (1994) – that know forces strong exhaustivity wherease surprise
allows for weak exhaustivity, more recent theoretical and empirical approaches
dispute this picture – either rejecting the notion of weak exhaustivity
altogether (George 2011), or allowing for more readings for each verb (Uegaki
2015, Spector & Egré 2015, Cremers & Chemla 2016, 2017). Despite these recent
debates concerning the exhaustivity effects of answers/questions, the above
issues are far from resolved. Although there has been a surge in experimental
approaches to exhaustivity in questions and answers (Cremers & Chemla 2016,
2017, Xiang & Cremers 2017, Moyer & Syrett in press), these topics have mostly
been approached from a theoretical perspective. The cross-linguistic picture
is largely unexplored.

Invited speakers:

Alexandre Cremers (ILLC, Amsterdam), Danny Fox (MIT), Maribel Romero (U
Konstanz), Yimei Xiang (U Rutgers)

Organizers:

Nadine Bade (U Tübingen), Carla Bombi (U Potsdam), Lea Fricke (U Graz), Edgar
Onea (U Graz), Malte Zimmermann (U Potsdam) (ExQ/ObTrex projects of XPrag.de
priority program)


2nd Call for Papers:

The submission deadline has been extended!

The goal of our workshop is to bring together researchers modeling
exhaustivity in questions and answers theoretically and those conducting
empirical and cross-linguistic work on the topic. We welcome abstracts for 30
minutes talks (20 + 10) that address issues relevant to the workshop.
Abstracts should be no longer than 2 Din A4 pages, with a 12 pt font and 2,5
cm/1 inch margins. The abstracts must be anonymous and not identifying the
authors in any way.

Authors may submit at most two abstracts, at most one of which may be
single-authored.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exqa2019
Submission deadline: 15 March 2019
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2019




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