30.2246, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Singapore

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Subject: 30.2246, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Singapore

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 23:47:47
From: Kenyon Branan [kgbranan at nus.edu.sg]
Subject: Approaches to Wh-Intervention

 
Approaches to Wh-Intervention 

Date: 06-Jun-2019 - 07-Jun-2019 
Location: Singapore, Singapore 
Contact: Kenyon Branan 
Contact Email: interventionworkshop2019 at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

The National University of Singapore will host a two-day Workshop on
Approaches to Wh-Intervention, June 6–7, 2019. This workshop centers around a
discussion of so-called ''intervention effects'' in wh-questions (Beck 1996,
2006, and many others), where certain quantificational elements are banned
from preceding or scoping over an in-situ wh-word. Theories of this sort of
effect differ considerably in exactly what the effect is attributed to, and
how the phenomenon is related to other intervention configurations.

The workshop will bring together researchers active in this domain, aiming to
define and delimit the domains of such phenomena, and to foster the
cross-pollination of ideas between leading scholars of the topic. We are
pleased to welcome the following invited speakers for six plenary talks which
will present various perspectives on the problem:

- Sigrid Beck (Tübingen)
- Kenyon Branan (NUS) & Norvin Richards (MIT)
- Jessica Coon (McGill) & Stefan Keine (USC)
- Hadas Kotek (Yale)
- Satoshi Tomioka (Delaware)
- Ming Xiang (Chicago)

Limited space is available for additional, short talks to be presented.

The workshop is organized by Kenyon Branan and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, and
supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education.
 

Program:

Sigrid Beck
[TBD]

Konstantin Sachs
“A hierarchy of intervention”

Dawei Jin
“Intervention effects in why-questions follow from topic interpretation”

Hisashi Morita
“Intervention effects inside islands”

Hadas Kotek & Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
“Intervention tracks scope-taking (in Japanese and English)”

Jessica Coon & Stefan Keine
“Intervention as gluttony”

Satoshi Tomioka
“Intervention effects: More questions than answers”

Kenyon Branan & Norvin Richards
“Contiguity and wh-intervention”

Ming Xiang
“Parsing and interpreting wh-in-situ scope”





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