Program

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.