7-10. March 2012

8. March 2012: 9-12

10. March 2012: 9-18

Frankfurt am Main

The first part of the meeting was the Workshop: Questions in Discourse at the DGfS in Frankfurt: https://sites.google.com/site/inquisitivesemantics/workshops/questions-in-discourse-2012

The talks of Network memebers:

March 8.

9 - 10 David Beaver: Anti-matters
11-12 Malte Zimmermann: 'Even' gives even more information: Scalar particles and discourse structure

March 10.

9:30-10:00 Introduction: Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea 10-11 Invited talk: Manfred Krifka: Negated polarity questions as denegations of assertions
11-12 Invited talk: Daniel Hole: Distributed syntax and semantics for scalar-evaluational only
12-14 lunch break
14:00-14:30 Radek Simic:
14:30-15:00 Arndt Riester:
15:00-15:30 Mira Grubic:
15:30-16:00 Henk Zeevat:
16:00-18:00 Round table discussion with position papers

• David Beaver:
• Craige Roberts:

The workshop meeting had three main topics of discussion:

• The notions of at issue vs. not at issue content and their relation to focus and the questions under discussion.
• The discourse structuring role of questions and speech acts and discourse particles
• Information structure, focus and focus sensitivity

David, Craige

Manfred, Craige, Henk, Radek, David

Malte, Mira, Daniel Hole, Arndt, David