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Courses and Workshops
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| Title: | Syntax, semantics and pragmatics of questions |
| Lecturer(s): | Ileana Comorovski (Université Nancy 2 and ATILF) and Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University and ZAS, Berlin) |
| Type: | Workshop |
| Section: | Logic and Language |
| Week: | First | | Time: | 17.00-18.30 (Slot 4) |
| Webpage: | http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/ESSLLI_Questions.html
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| Reader: | Download | | Room: | A2 |
Description
The investigation of questions has deepened our understanding of syntax
(e.g. the constraints on syntactic dependencies), of semantics (e.g., the
representation of non-declarative information) and of pragmatics (e.g.,
the nature of speech acts). However, linguists often took little notice
of research on questions (and answers) in adjacent fields. For example,
syntacticians interested in multiple constituent questions were unaware
of the interpretation of different types of multiple questions, and
semanticists disregarded important pragmatic factors like speaker bias.
This workshop tries to bring together researchers that transcend such
boundaries. The goal is to gain not only a more profound understanding of
questions, but of the interaction of syntax, semantics and pragmatics in
general.
The contributions to this workshop analyze questions in typologically
diverse languages and address problems that often draw on insights across
sub-disciplines. The themes that are explored include the relation
between the syntax of constituent questions and information structure
(discourse-linking, topic, focus), exhaustive and non-exhaustive readings
of constituent questions, biased questions, sentence form and
illocutionary force, and the cross-linguistic array of possible answers
to yes-no questions.
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2004-07-09
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