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First meeting: Information structure and Questions
General information
Time
7-10. March 2012
8. March 2012: 9-12
10. March 2012: 9-18
Place
Frankfurt am Main
Program
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:
Topics that have been discussed
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
The notions of at issue vs. not at issue content and their relation to focus and the questions under discussion.
The notion of at issue vs. not at issue content has been claimed by Roberts et al 2010 to be relevant for the projection of presupposed and appositive material. The exact notion of at issueness however has not been so clear. Initially at issueness has been claimed to be dependent on the overt question under discussion, however that lead to claims that were fairly hard to falsify, because there was an unlimited potential of accommodation of implicit questions.
As opposed to this David Beaver presented a version of the theory in which at issueness (matter) vs. not at issueness (anti matter) rather depends on the focus-background structure of the host-utterance, hence the wider pragmatic grounding of the theory has been rather shifted to a more surface oriented approach.
Examples and exact definitions to come
The discourse structuring role of questions and speech acts and discourse particles
Manfred, Craige, Henk, Radek, David
Information structure, focus and focus sensitivity
Malte, Mira, Daniel Hole, Arndt, David
