11-12 March 2013

Berlin (ZAS) (exact place to come)

We recommend one of the following hotels:

* Circus Hotel (Rosenthaler Platz) * Holiday Inn (Berlin-Mitte, Gesundbrunnen) * Novotel Berlin-Mitte http://www.accorhotels.com/de/hotel-3278-novotel-berlin-mitte/index.shtml * Winters Hotel Berlin-Mitte Gendarmenmarkt OR * Winters Hotel Checkpoint Charly http://www.winters.de/de/hotels/city/berlin

The last three hotels are in walking distance to the ZAS, the first two are a bit further away, but they are located in more interesting parts of town and you can get to ZAS by using the metro lines U8 and then U2 (change at Alexanderplatz)

Notice that we can only pay for 3 nights: 10-13 March. Especially for people who come from the United States, early flight booking is recommended. Remember also that due to DGFS regulations we can only cover the travel costs for members. Associates need to take care of the travel costs themselves.

Travel information.
Link to google maps.

to come

(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.