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- | //Topic to be discussed at the [[ 2nd || second meeting ]]. // | + | //Topic to be discussed at the [[ 2nd | second meeting ]]. // |
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- | ====== Local information structure: Focus in conditionals and appositives ====== | + | ===== Local information structure: Focus in conditionals and appositives ===== |
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The final paraphrase looks suspiciously close to the semantic analysis of inidrect scope marking by Dayal (??) and Lipták & Zimmermann (2007), to which the analysis of local question phenomena might extend. | The final paraphrase looks suspiciously close to the semantic analysis of inidrect scope marking by Dayal (??) and Lipták & Zimmermann (2007), to which the analysis of local question phenomena might extend. | ||
- | === General questions === | + | ===== General questions ===== |
Finally, the bigger questions to be addressed are | Finally, the bigger questions to be addressed are | ||
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(i) How do these observations and data relate to a question-based discourse model?; and | (i) How do these observations and data relate to a question-based discourse model?; and | ||
(ii) How do they relate to the notion of at-issueness? | (ii) How do they relate to the notion of at-issueness? | ||
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+ | ===== Ideas for presentations / issues to be discussed ===== | ||
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+ | === Empirical questions === | ||
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+ | * What kind of contexts license focus accenting in conditionals, appositives, and other embedded environments (relative clauses etc.). Is it possible to reconstruct local QUDs for each of these cases? | ||
+ | * Do we get instances of local focus marking in non-intonation languages (Chadic, DGS)? | ||
+ | * Is local focus marking in Hungarian dependent on a focus correlate ('az-CASE') in the matrix clause? What are the patterns? | ||
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+ | === Modelling questions === | ||
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+ | * What is the discourse-semantic function of appositive relative clauses? Are they really non-at issue, or do they rather express answers to additional QUDs that are superimposed on the main QUD? | ||
+ | * Can the same mechanism be exploited to fuse the local questions of other embedded (focus) domains with the main QUD? | ||
+ | * Is this the same mechanism that is overtly at work in the interpretation of indirect scope marking (Dayal 200?), which - in Hungarian - is also possible with relative and other embedded adjunct clauses (Lipták & Zimmermann 2007)? Can it be applied to any instance of embedded focus marking in need of a local QUD? | ||
+ | * What are the alternatives for integrating local questions into the overall discourse/question structure? | ||
+ | * Could alternatives do the job? | ||
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+ | ===== Talks on this topic ===== | ||
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+ | * Talk 1 - Edgar Onea: Adding Potential Questions to the discourse | ||
+ | * Talk 2 - | ||
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+ | ===== Literature ===== | ||
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+ | - Roberts et al 2010 - SALT paper | ||
+ | - Beaver 2012 - Meeting 1 paper |