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Third meeting: Questions and discourse structure

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tba.

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Potsdam

(exact place to come)

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(this text is from the application: please contribute)

We wish to consider the theoretical benefits and problems of structuring discourse by means of question hierarchies, which are partly motivated by considerations from information structure (Büring 2003). For one thing, we wish to compare the existing analysis of discourse particles in question-based discourse models with other competing analyses. In addition, we wish to discuss the relation between question-based discourse models and discourse models based on discourse relations, such as SDRT. One particular question we have in mind is to explore to what extent these two kinds of discourse representation can be thought of as being compatible, or even equivalent. This also leads to a theoretical discussion about the way in which overt questions relate to implicit questions in discourse structuring, and more generally to the question of how the new way of thinking about questions in inquisitive semantics relates to more elaborate discourse models.

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