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. 2023. Knowing and believing things: what DP-complements can tell us about the meaning and composition of (factive) attitudes. Journal of Semantics 40.2-3:179-233. [link]
  • Mohammadi, Maryam. In prep. Polar response particles in Farsi: Lexical ambiguity.
  • 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, Nadine. 2022. A pragmatic account of presupposition projection in questions. Under revision.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings papers and book chapters

  • 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]
  • 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). [link]
  • Mohammadi, Maryam. 2023. ‘mage’: a Bias Sensitive Discourse Particle. To appear in the proceedings of the 3rd North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL3).
  • Mohammadi, Maryam. 2024. Bias effect on response preference. To appear in the proceedings of the 59rd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS59). [link]
  • Mohammadi, Maryam. To appear. Non-canonical questions in Farsi. To appear in Oxford Handbook of Non-canonical Questions.
  • 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]
  • Romero, Maribel, Erlinde Meertens and Andrea Beltrama. 2021. Or not alternative questions, focus and discourse structure. In A. Beltrama, F. Schwarz and A. Papafragou, eds., Proceedings of Experiments on Linguistic Meaning 1. Pp. 249–260. LSA Journals. [link]

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.
  • Meertens, Erlinde. 2021. Alternative Questions: From Surface to Meaning. PhD dissertation. [link]
  • Mohammadi, Maryam. 2024. Bias Conditions in Polar Questions and Answers: A Study of Bias Effects in Farsi. PhD dissertation. [link]

Organized Workshops

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