30.2023, Confs: Romance; Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 30.2023, Confs: Romance; Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 23:47:27
From: Malte Rosemeyer [malte.rosemeyer at gmail.com]
Subject: Discourse-pragmatic Perspectives on Interrogatives in Romance and Elsewhere

 
Discourse-pragmatic Perspectives on Interrogatives in Romance and Elsewhere 

Date: 16-Jul-2019 - 16-Jul-2019 
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact: Malte Rosemeyer 
Contact Email: malte.rosemeyer at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 
Meeting Description: 

Workshop description:

This workshop analyzes the use of interrogatives from a discourse-pragmatic
perspective, with a focus on Romance languages. We are particularly interested
in the following questions: 

(a) Can we predict whether or not an interrogative will be used at a specific
point in discourse?
(b) Which kinds of interpretation can interrogatives receive and are there
formal correlates of these discourse functions? 
(c) Which language-specific differences exist in Romance and elsewhere
regarding this form-function relationship ? 

Specific topics addressed by the talks in the workshop are the use of
interrogatives to express discourse functions other than questions, the
influence of formal features such as intonation, negation and tense on the
interpretation of interrogatives, and the variation between different
syntactic interrogative constructions such as ex-situ vs. in-situ
wh-interrogatives.

Time and venue:

July 16, 2019 at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Haus zur Lieben Hand, Großer Saal (1. OG), Löwenstraße 16, 79098 Freiburg

Funding: 
Dr. Jürgen und Irmgard Ulderup-Stiftung
 

Program:

09:00 - 09:15 
Opening
Malte Rosemeyer (Freiburg/Leuven) & Daniel Jacob (Freiburg)

09:15 - 10:00 
Asking for confirmation: the bias of interronegatives
Pierre Larrivée (Caen)

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:15 
Wh-headlines in German. Some remarks on their origin and uses
Rita Finkbeiner & Robert Külpmann (Düsseldorf)

11:15 - 12:00 
Overt questions: a repair initiating strategy?
Daniel Jacob (Freiburg)

Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45 
Disentangling wh-questions in Hebrew
Pavel Ozerov (Münster)

14:45 - 15:30 
¿Qué vas a saber vos de talento? Spanish future-inflected wh-interrogatives
from an interactional perspective
María Sol Sansiñena (Leuven) & Malte Rosemeyer (Freiburg/Leuven)

Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 
A contrastive perspective on Italian and French wh-in-situ questions. A
discourse-pragmatic approach
Davide Garassino (Zürich)

16:45 -17:15 
Final discussion





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