P3 Publications

Peer-reviewed journal publications

  • Beltrama, Andrea, Erlinde Meertens, and Maribel Romero. 2020. Alternative questions: Distinguishing between negated and complementary disjuncts. Semantics and Pragmatics 13(5). [link]
  • Djärv, Kajsa. 2022. On the interpretation and distribution of embedded main clause syntax: new perspectives on complex discourse moves. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5752. (Also part of Wataru Uegaki & Floris Roelofsen (eds.) The interface between logic and grammar in the domain of clausal complementation, Glossa special issue).
  • Djärv, Kajsa. 2022. Knowing and believing things: what DP-complements can tell us about the argument structure and composition of (factive) attitudes. To appear in Journal of Semantics.
  • Romero, Maribel and Meertens, Erlinde. 2022. Q-particles and islands in Sinhala wh- and polar questions, Acta Linguistica Academica, 69(1), 104-127. [link]
  • Theiler, Nadin. 2022. A pragmatic account of presupposition projection in questions. Under revision.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings papers

  • Beltrama, Andrea, Erlinde Meertens, and Maribel Romero. 2018a. Alternative questions between logic and discourse. An experimental study. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS53), pages 25-38. [link]
  • Beltrama, Andrea, Erlinde Meertens, and Maribel Romero. 2018b. Decomposing cornering effects: An experimental study. In U. Sauerland and S. Solt, eds., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, vol. 1, pages 175-190. [link]
  • Djärv, Kajsa. 2021. Source and Content DPs: belief-verbs as optionally ditransitive Hintikkan attitudes. In Ryan Walter Smith (ed.) Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39).
  • Jordanoska, Izabela, and Erlinde Meertens. 2019. The pragmatic effects of Macedonian li: an experimental study. In Proceedings of Formal Description of Slavic Linguistics 13 (FDSL13). To appear.
  • Meertens, Erlinde. 2019. How prosody disambiguates between Alternative and Polar Questions. In J. J. Schlöder, D McHugh and F. Roelofsen, eds.,  Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, pages 299-308. [link]
  • Meertens, Erlinde, Sophie Egger, and Maribel Romero. 2019. Multiple accent in alternative questions. In M.T. Espinal, E. Castroviejo, M. Leonetti, L. McNally and C. Real-Puigdollers , eds., Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, vol.2, pages 179-195. [link]
  • Meertens, Erlinde. 2018. Prosody in disjunctive questions: Introducing class. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 25(1), 21. [link]
  • Romero, Maribel. 2015a. Surprise-predicates, strong exhaustivity and alternative questions. In S. D’Antonio, M. Morroney, and C. R. Little, eds., Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 25, pages 225-245. [link]
  • Mohammadi, Maryam and Romero, Maribel. 2023. Polar Particles in Farsi: Sensitivity to the Scoreboard Model of Discourse, To appear in  the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28 (SuB28).
  • Mohhammadi, Maryam. 2023. ‘mage’: a Bias Sensitive Discourse Particle. To appear in the proceedings of the 3rd North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL3).
  • Mohhammadi, Maryam. 2023. Bias effect on response preference. To appear in the proceedings of the 59rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS59).
  • Mohhammadi, Maryam. 2023. Aren’t Conditionals Quantifiers? Under review.

Invited talks

  • Kajsa Djärv and Maribel Romero. 2021. Emotive factives and strong exhausitvity: an experimental investigation. Invited talk at the MECORE kickoff workshop: Approaches to the semantics of clause-embedding predicates: theories, cross-linguistic data, and experimentation. University of Edinburgh, Oct 21, 2021.
  • Kajsa Djärv. 2021. Knowing and believing things: what DP-complementation can tell us about the meaning and composition of attitude verbs. Invited talk at the OSU Workshop on Clause-embedding predicates, March 31-April 2, 2021.
  • Kajsa Djärv. 2021. Knowledge and belief: what DP-complementation can tell us about the meaning and composition of (factive) attitudes. Invited talk at the Edinburgh University Meaning and Grammar Research Group, May 11, 2021.
  • Kajsa Djärv. 2021. Knowledge and belief: what DP-complementation can tell us about the meaning and composition of (factive) attitudes. Invited talk at the University College London Semantics Seminar, Dec 10, 2021.
  • Meertens, Erlinde. 2018. Q-Particles in Alternative Questions. Invited Talk presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna . March 19th. [slides]
  • Theiler, Nadine. 2021. Pragmatics intrudes into presupposition projection from wh-complements. MECORE kickoff workshop. University of Edinburgh/University of Konstanz (online).

Peer-reviewed conference talks (conference talks whose papers are cited above are not repeated here)

  • Beltrama, Andrea, Erlinde Meertens and Maribel Romero. 2017a. From Markedness to Insistence: On the Interactional Properties of Alternative Questions. Workshop “Integrating Approaches to Social Meaning”. Toulouse, July 23-28. [slides]
  • Beltrama, Andrea, Erlinde Meertens and Maribel Romero. 2017b. Alternative Questions, Markedness and Illocutionary Properties: an Experimental Study. Penn Linguistics Conference 41. Philadelphia, PA, March 24-26. [slides]
  • Djärv, Kajsa. 2021. Composing attitude reports: why knowing people is not believing them. The 30th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 30), Brown University.
  • Disselkamp, Gisela, Andrea Beltrama and Maribel Romero. 2018. Two kinds of ‘repeat’ questions: evidence from German and Spanish. Poster presented at the workshop Meaning in non-canonical questions. University of Konstanz, June 7-9. (In cooperation with P5) [poster]
  • Esipova, Maria and Maribel Romero. 2023. Prejacent truth in rhetorical questions: lessons from Russian. Formal Approached to Slavic Linguistics 32. Indiana University, May 19-21. [slides]
  • Meertens, Erlinde and Sven Lauer. 2018. Melioratives in Dutch and German: Crosslinguistic variation in a minor sentence type. 2018. Talk presented at the Workshop Non-Canonical Imperatives. Humboldt Universität Berlin, May 25-26. [slides]
  • Mohammadi, Maryam and Maribel Romero. 2023. Polar particles in Farsi: Sensitivity to the Scoreboard Model of Discourse. Upcoming talk at Sinn und Bedeutung 28. Ruhr University Bochum, September 5-8.
  • Romero, Maribel. 2016. Strong exhaustivity, alternative questions and monotonicity: Some thoughts on Cremers & Chemla (2016). Talk at the xprag.de workshop Disjunction Days. ZAS Berlin, June 2-3. [slides]

Peer-reviewed poster presentations

  • Beltrama, Andrea, Erlinde Meertens and Maribel Romero. 2017. Polar Questions, “or not” Alternative Questions and Complement Alternative Questions: an Experimental Study. XPRAG 7. Cologne, June 21-23. [poster]
  • Song, Yixiao. 2018. A comparative study of German and Chinese alternative questions. Poster presented at the workshop Meaning in non-canonical questions. University of Konstanz, June 7-9. [poster]

Outreach

Project related theses

  • Karatas, Seda. 2017. Ja/Nein Fragen in Türkischen. BA thesis, University of Konstanz. Supervisors: Maribel Romero, Doris Penka.
  • Song, Yixiao. 2018. A comparative study of German and Chinese alternative questions. MA thesis, University of Konstanz. Supervisors: Maribel Romero, Regine Eckardt.
  • Hofenbitzer, Justin. 2021. Einflüsse der Prosodie auf den präsuppositionalen Gehalt von Wh-Fragen im Deutschen. BA thesis, University of Konstanz. Supervisors: Maribel Romero, Bettina Braun.

Organized Workshops

Meaning in non-canonical Questions. June 7-9, 2018. (In cooperation with P2)