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====== Second meeting: Workshop on Questions and information structure ======
===== General information =====
==== Time ====

6-7. Sept 2012 

6. Sept 9:00-18:00 \\

7. Sept 9:00-15:00

==== Place ====

The meeting will be held in Paris on the two days preceding Sinn und Bedeutung.
We were able to get a room through the help of Pascal Amsili and Lucia Tovena at Paris Diderot in the 13e arrondissement.

Université Paris Diderot,
UFR de Linguistique,
175, rue du Chevaleret,
75013 Paris
room 4C92
4th floor, "plateau" C

Closest metro station: Chevaleret, line 6.

See the following weblink for nore information (in French) on the venue and how to get there:

http://www.liafa.univ-paris-diderot.fr/web9/acces/acces_fr.php 

Many thanks to Lucia Tovena (local organizer)


==== Useful information ====

=== Hotel information ===

== Reimbursement ==

For members, we reimburse the travel costs to Paris and back.  \\ 
We reimburse hotel costs for 3 nights: 
  * the 5th, 
  * the 6th 
  * and the 7th of September. 

There is a price limit per night which is **100€**. \\
''If you book above this, please note that the university of Göttingen may not refund anything above 100€ per night.
Typically if the difference is small, they may not object, however. '' 

== Which hotel and where? ==

Each participant should book on his/her own. \\ We suggest booking in the region Place d'Italie/Les Gobelins, since that is also near the SuB site. \\ If you find a suitable hotel, please share the suggestion here. \\ \\ Radek: I booked a room at the Neptune hotel (15, rue Godefroy, 13. Place d'Italie, Paris, 75013) \\
Edgar: same \\
Malte: same \\



==== Location of the meeting ====

Université Paris Diderot,
UFR de Linguistique,
175, rue du Chevaleret,
75013 Paris
room 4C92
4th floor, "plateau" C

Google map:  http://goo.gl/maps/QZwR
===== Program =====

Sept 6. 

9 - 12 Invited talks + Discussion \\
12- 14 Lunch break \\ 
14- 18 Thematic Slot 1:  [[ grammarinfstruc | Grammar and Discourse Structure: From Accent to Focus to Questions? ]] \\ 

19- Dinner. suggestion: http://petitmarguery.com/fr/restaurant.html

Sept 7.

9- 12 Thematic Slot 2: [[ localinfstruc | Local Information Structure]]  \\
12-14 Lunch break \\
14-15 Floris Roelofsen, Assertions and Polar Questions: the default case and beyond [[https://sites.google.com/site/inquisitivesemantics/documents/Paris_handout.pdf|handout]] \\
15-19 Paris per pedes tour 
 
===== Topics to be discussed =====

In the second network meeting on Questions in Discourse we would like to shed more light on the relation between questions and information structure by taking a closer look at the relation between accenting/focus realization (A) and the information-structural category of focus (F=, on the one hand, and the relation between focus and the current question/question under discussion (Q) as a discourse-structuring device, on the other:
 

(1)       A – F              |           F – Q
 
The first question to be addressed is whether the hypothesis in (2) holds in light of the empirical facts – both old and new:


(2)       There is a 1:1-correlation between A and F and Q in that the nuclear pitch accent always marks the focus of the utterance and focus always indicates the current question under discussion.


Of particular relevance are apparent mismatches between A, F, and Q, which fall into two subclasses:



   i.          Unfocused accents: Instances of pitch accents that do not appear to relate directly to a question under discussion.
   ii.         Unaccented focus: Instances of question-indicating focus that are not marked by accent.

 

The second question to be addressed is how to integrate certain problematic instances of focus marking in embedded environments (not at-issue appositives, conditionals) into a discourse framework that is based on questions.

 

We will deal with each question in a separate discussion round with the following preliminary working titles:

 

      * [[ grammarinfstruc | Grammar & Discourse Structure: From accent to Focus to Questions? ]]  
      * [[ localinfstruc | Local Information Structure: Focus in Conditionals and Appositives ]]

 

Each discussion round will be in charge of some volunteer member of the network. The discussion round will consist of a general introduction, followed by individual contributions on empirical observations and theoretical considerations (discourse modelling), followed by a general discussion.
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