30.4083, Confs: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Czech Republic

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Subject: 30.4083, Confs: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Czech Republic

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:34:33
From: Radek Šimík [radek.simik at ff.cuni.cz]
Subject: Workshop Relatives, Interrogatives, Alternatives

 
Workshop Relatives, Interrogatives, Alternatives 

Date: 13-Nov-2019 - 15-Nov-2019 
Location: Prague, Czech Republic 
Contact: Radek Šimík 
Contact Email: radek.simik at hu-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/rel-inter-alter/home 

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

Meeting Description: 

The workshop focuses on the relation between wh-based relative clauses,
interrogative clauses, and semantic alternatives, particularly those triggered
by foci or contrastive topics. While the relation between wh-questions and
focus alternatives is well-known and studied, the relation between
wh-questions and wh-based relatives still raises questions. Evidence from
various linguistic domains suggests that relatives are derived from
interrogatives: relative wh-words are derived from interrogative ones (if they
are not identical), relative wh-words always move, while interrogative ones
sometimes remain in situ, the landing site of fronted relative operators is
higher than that of interrogative ones, the set of relative wh-words is always
the subset of interrogative ones, etc. Yet, the theoretical understanding of
why this relation between interrogatives and relatives should hold is poor.
Nor is it well understood how the meaning of relative clauses/wh-words should
be compositionally derived from the meaning of interrogative clauses/wh-words.

For a more detailed description, see the workshop website.

Confirmed speakers/participants:

Hubert Truckenbrodt (Berlin)
Daniel Büring (Vienna)
Robert Truswell (Edinburgh)
Radek Šimík (Prague)
Hana Strachonova (Prague/Brno)
Elodie Winckel (Berlin)
Izabela Jordanoska (Vienna)
Muriel Assmann (Vienna)

Funding:
CENTRAL - Central European Network for Teaching and Research in Academic
Liaison
 

Program:

For more detailed info, see
https://sites.google.com/view/rel-inter-alter/program

Wednesday 13 Nov 2019

13:45: 
Hubert Truckenbrodt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): TBA

15:30: 
Elodie Winckel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Université de Paris): Focus,
topic, and subextraction from subjects

16:30: 
Radek Šimík (Charles University in Prague): A new semantics for relative
wh-words

Thursday 14 Nov 2019

9:30: 
Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh): Indefinite/interrogatives and
relatives in Early Indo-European

11:15: 
Roland Meyer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The connection between
relatives and wh-interrogatives in the history of Slavic languages

12:00: 
Ingrid Konrad (Paris Diderot University): When an interrogative clause derived
from a relative clause syntactically behaves as a relative clause: The case of
French ce que

14:45: 
Adnana Boioc Apintei (University of Bucharest): Issues on relative
constructions in Lipovan Romanian

15:30: 
Francesco Beltrame (University School for Advanced Studies Pavia): Focus and
topic propositions in why-questions: An experimental study on Italian
16:30 Daniel Büring (University of Vienna): TBA

Friday 15 Nov 2019

9:30: 
Hana Strachoňová (Charles University in Prague / Masaryk University in Brno):
>From questions to relatives in Czech Sign Language

10:45: 
Muriel Assmann (University of Vienna): Interpreting the ordering effects of
contrastive topics and foci in Brazilian Portuguese

11:45: 
Izabela Jordanoska (University of Vienna) and Erlinde Meertens (University of
Konstanz): Macedonian li: Opening a window into multiple layers of focus
marking





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