34.3463, Calls: Polar Question Meaning[s] Across Languages

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-3463. Fri Nov 17 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.3463, Calls: Polar Question Meaning[s] Across Languages

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Date: 17-Nov-2023
From: Beste Kamali [b.c.kamali at uva.nl]
Subject: Polar Question Meaning[s] Across Languages


Full Title: Polar Question Meaning[s] Across Languages
Short Title: POQAL

Date: 11-Apr-2024 - 13-Apr-2024
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contact Person: Beste Kamali
Meeting Email: b.c.kamali at uva.nl
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/poqal-amsterdam/home

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation;
Pragmatics; Semantics; Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

The last decade has seen a steady increase in work on question
meaning, in particular polar question meaning, with relatively new
notions like bias becoming front and center. At the same time, the
empirical field has widened to include some understanding of various
forms fulfilling the polar question function. Spanning not only
interrogatives but also declaratives, tags, and alternatives, these
forms raise important questions for the relationship between form and
meaning.

Beyond these polar-like question forms familiar from widely studied
languages, recent research has shown that across languages further
lexical and structural means are deployed to create components of
complex polar question meanings. From particles enforcing certain bias
inferences in Japanese and Mandarin to those that drive a
“non-intrusive” meaning in Bulgarian and Romanian, from evidentials
interacting with polar question meaning in Bangla and German to
focus-sensitive polar question marking in Finnish, Slavic and Turkish,
phenomena that speak to further and richer dimensions of meaning have
been uncovered. This workshop aims to bring together work that
continues this line of research.

This workshop is sponsored by the Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship
EPOQ-101067203 to Beste Kamali.

Call for Papers:

Polar question meaning[s] across languages

April 11-13, 2024, University of Amsterdam

This workshop aims to bring together work that continues this line of
research. We invite abstracts that formally address aspects of
polar(-like) question forms across languages, and theorize on polar
question meaning and its components based on a wide range of data (of
forms as well as languages). We are particularly excited to hear about
manifestations of meaning in pragmatic and social levels that connect
to formal grammatical events such as clausal structure, negation,
focus and intonation.

Please limit abstracts of max. 2 pages to two abstracts per
(co-)author and send to poqal.amsterdam at gmail.com.

Invited speakers:
        ⁃       Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota)
        ⁃       Regine Eckardt (Konstanz University)
        ⁃       Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
        ⁃       Deniz Rudin (University of Southern California)

Important data:
        •       Abstracts due: January 15, 2024
        •       Decisions announced: January 31, 2024
        •       WS Date: April 11-13, 2024 
        •       WS location: University of Amsterdam Humanities Labs
room F0.01. https://www.uva.nl/en/locations/binnenstad/bushuis.html?or
igin=uq5cmYnUS0mTwIPG0l%2FQxA
        •       Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/poqal-amsterdam/home
        •       Contact person: Beste Kamali
(poqal.amsterdam at gmail.com, b.c.kamali at uva.nl)

This workshop is sponsored by the Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship
EPOQ-101067203 to Beste Kamali.



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