Wednesday, March 7 2018 | ||
1.45pm – 2.15pm | Introduction -¬†Annette Hautli-Janisz, Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli and Tatjana Scheffler | |
2.15pm – 3.15pm | Invited talk:¬†Characterizing the Response Space of Questions¬†- Jonathan Ginzburg | |
3.15pm – 3.45pm | Dependent Query Responses¬†- Pawel Lupkowski, Jonathan Ginzburg and Sebastian Seyda | |
3.45pm – 4.30pm | Coffee break | |
4.30pm – 5.30pm | What parallel texts can tell us about word order variation and change. A case study on wh-interrogatives in Romance – Georg A. Kaiser and Katharina Kaiser | |
Thursday, March 8 2018 | ||
9.00am – 10.00am | Generating Questions under Discussion – Kordula De Kuthy, Tobias Kolditz and Detmar Meurers | |
10.00am – 10.30am | Propositions, updates, speech acts – what is involved in “won’t you?” questions tags in American English?¬†- Sophia Malamud and Tatjana Scheffler | |
10.30am – 11.15am | Coffee break | |
11.15am – 11.45am | Selection of Sentence-Final Particles in Answers¬†- Masaharu Shimada and Akiko Nagano | |
11.45am – 12.15am | A relevance-theoretic perspective on the typology of questions¬†- Aleksandar Triklja | |
12.15am – 1.45pm | Lunch break | |
1.45pm – 2.15pm | Linguistic Variation in the Realization of Rhetorical Questions — Providing Semantics and Pragmatics for German RQs¬†- Mark-Matthias Zymla | |
2.15pm – 2.45pm | Modelling Questions in Public Arbitrations with Inference Anchoring Theory – Brian Pl√ºss, Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed | |
Cancelled talks:
The functional heterogeneity of interrogatives: An optimistic approach - Sven Lauer and Sunwoo Jeong
Word Order and Question Type: A Corpus Analysis of Bollywood Scripts – Farhat Jabeen and Miriam Butt
The program of the overall DGfS 2018 conference can be found here.