30.3778, Confs: General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:42:06
From: Andreas Trotzke [andreas.trotzke at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Non-canonical Questions in French, German, and Beyond

 
Non-canonical Questions in French, German, and Beyond 
Short Title: NCQs2019 

Date: 21-Nov-2019 - 22-Nov-2019 
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact: Andreas Trotzke 
Contact Email: andreas.trotzke at uni-konstanz.de 
Meeting URL: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/trotzke/Website/NCQs2019.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop is funded by the DFG Research Unit FOR 2111 (''Questions at the
Interfaces'') and the DAAD project ''Surprise Questions from a Comparative
Perspective'' (PPP France: grant no. 57444809).

The aim of this workshop is to discuss non-canonical questions from a
cross-linguistic perspective, with a focus on French and German. We are
interested in contributions exploring how semantic and pragmatic factors
affect the meaning of interrogative sentences and how modal components and
particularly information structure interact with the speech act of
questioning. By 'non-canonical' questions we mean questions that do not
request information from the addressee in the first place, but rather tell us
something about the speaker's epistemic and/or emotional state (e.g., echo
questions, rhetorical questions, surprise questions).

For instance, non-canonical readings can be triggered by a construction
marking narrow focus in a context where a narrow focus is not expected, by
lexical elements such as modal particles or the non-argumental use of
wh-elements (German was, French qu'est-ce que), or by syntactic strategies
like focus fronting, dislocation, or wh-in-situ.

The focus of this workshop is the comparison between French and German, but we
are also open to submissions that refer to this comparison when investigating
further languages.

Confirmed Speakers:

Jenny Doetjes (Leiden University)
Caroline Féry (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva)

Local Organizers:

Andreas Trotzke
Anna Czypionka

Organizing Board:

Andreas Trotzke
Anna Czypionka
Agnès Celle
Lisa Brunetti
 

Program:

November 21, 2019 (Room L602)

12:00 - 13:15: 
Reception + brunch buffet

13:15 - 14:15: 
Ur Shlonsky (U Geneva): TBA

14:15 - 15:00: 
Lucia Tovena (U Paris 7): A comparative corpus study on a case of
non-canonical question

15:00 - 15:45: 
Laurie Dekhissi (U Poitiers) & Aidan Coveney (U Exeter): Variation between
qu'est-ce que & pourquoi in conflictual rhetorical questions: A corpus-based
study

15:45 - 16:15: Coffee break

16:15 - 17:00: 
Agnès Celle (U Paris 7) & Maud Pélissier (U Agder): Surprise questions in
French

17:00 - 17:45:
Claire Beyssade (U Paris 8) & Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (UMR6310 & U Nantes):
French rhetorical questions: Semantic analysis and prosodic realizations

17:45 - 18:45: 
Jenny Doetjes (U Leiden): Information structure and scope in non-canonical
questions in French

19:30 - : 
Conference dinner, Konzil Konstanz

November 22, 2019 (Room G421)

10:00 - 11:00: 
Caroline Féry (U Frankfurt): The role of prosody and information structure in
rhetorical and declarative questions in French and in German

11:00 - 11:45: 
Johannes Heim (U Greifswald) & Martina Wiltschko (U Pompeu Fabra):
Cross-linguistic belief-variation in non-canonical response questions

11:45 - 12:30: 
Yoshio Endo (U Kanda): Non-standard questions in French, German and Japanese

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
 
14:00 - 14:45: 
Pierre Larrivée (U Caen) & Alda Mari (IJN/CNRS & U Chicago): Negative biased
questions: The view from epistemic modals

14:45 - 15:30: 
Christina Tortora (CUNY) & Jason Bishop (CUNY): What-marked Yes-No questions
in New York
City English

15:30 - 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45:
Alessandra Giorgi (U Venice): Surprise and surprise-disapproval questions: The
counter-expectational particle ma/but in Italian and English

16:45 - 17:15: 
Andreas Trotzke, Anna Czypionka, Lisa Brunetti & Agnès Celle: Concluding
discussion





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