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 **Administrative info: ** **Administrative info: **
  
-//Topic to be discussed at the [[ 2nd || second meeting ]]. //+//Topic to be discussed at the [[ 2nd | second meeting ]]. //
  
 // Responsible supervisor(s): ​ // // Responsible supervisor(s): ​ //
  
-====== 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
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