25.3532, Confs: Syntax, Pragmatics/Germany

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Subject: 25.3532, Confs: Syntax, Pragmatics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:13:16
From: Andreas Trotzke [andreas.trotzke at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: Grammar's Reflexes of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension

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Grammar's Reflexes of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension 

Date: 29-Sep-2014 - 30-Sep-2014 
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact: Andreas Trotzke 
Contact Email: andreas.trotzke at uni-konstanz.de 
Meeting URL: http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/StructureUtterance/web/Events.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The workshop will bring together researchers who have been actively involved in work at the crossroad of information structure and the expressive dimension.

Speakers:

Josef Bayer (Konstanz), Silvio Cruschina (Vienna), Probal Dasgupta (Kolkata), Gisbert Fanselow (Potsdam), Werner Frey (Berlin), Julia Horvath (Tel Aviv), Andreas Trotzke (Konstanz). Giuseppina Turco (Stuttgart)

Workshop organizers: Josef Bayer & Andreas Trotzke 

Program:

29 September 2014

10:00–11:30
Silvio Cruschina (U Vienna)
Triggers and meanings of focus fronting in Romance

11:30–13:00
Andreas Trotzke (U Konstanz) & Giuseppina Turco (U Stuttgart)
On emphasis and left peripheral discourse particles

13:00–14:30 Lunch

14:30–16:00
Probal Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata)
Intimacy–oriented discourse particles in Bangla: A biaxial account

16:00–17:30
Josef Bayer (U Konstanz) & Probal Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata)
The architectural unity of emphasis, topic and interrogative marking in Bangla

19:00 Conference dinner

30 September 2014

10:00–11:30
Werner Frey (ZAS, Berlin)
Emphasis makes everything mobile

11:30–13:00
Gisbert Fanselow (U Potsdam)
Object fronting in German and Germanic: Prosody, mirativity, and topic shift

13:00–14:30 Lunch

14:30–16:00
Julia Horvath (U Tel Aviv)
Criterial positions or direct interface effects: Movements and emphasis in the syntax of wh–exclamatives in Hungarian

16:00–17:30
Round–table Discussion








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