LINGUIST List 22.2670 Mon Jun 27 2011 Calls: Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Edgar Onea , DGfS 2012 Workshop: Questions in Discourse Message 1: DGfS 2012 Workshop: Questions in Discourse Date: 27-Jun-2011 From: Edgar Onea <edgar.oneagooglemail.com> Subject: DGfS 2012 Workshop: Questions in Discourse E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: DGfS 2012 Workshop: Questions in Discourse Date: 07-Mar-2012 - 09-Mar-2012 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Contact Person: Edgar Onea Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/inquisitivesemantics/workshops/questions-in-discourse-2012 Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2011 Meeting Description: Questions in Discourse The workshop focuses on the interaction of form and meaning of linguistic expressions with questions in discourse. It is well known that such an interaction exists, for instance, focus in an answer often corresponds to the wh-word in an explicit or implicit question, and some verbs can even embed overt or concealed questions. Recently, however, important progress has been achieved in this regard. On the one hand, it has been shown that questions, in particular the question under discussion, affects the interpretation of natural language utterances more deeply than previously assumed, for instance, the interpretation of discourse particles seem to strongly depend on the question under discussion (Beaver & Clark 2008) and even classical phenomena such as presupposition projection have recently been argued to depend on the question under discussion in a substantial way (Simons et al 2010). On the other hand, recent developments in Inquisitive Semantics (Groenendijk & Roelofsen 2009) suggests that the class of natural language expressions that give rise to alternatives and invite the hearer to choose between these alternative includes not only questions but also all kinds of expressions related to disjunction and indefinites. This gives a new perspective on the meaning of natural language expressions in general as suggesting one or more potential updates of the common ground, and it gives rise to new tools in pragmatics e.g. for the computation of quantity implicatures and the grammatical structure of answers. Invited Speakers: David Beaver Jeroen Groenendijk Malte Zimmermann The workshop is part of the yearly DGfS Conference. Registration to the Conference is required. Call for Papers: We invite theoretical papers or case studies that discuss the ways in which questions can be captured in a discourse model, the interaction of questions with the interpretation of other expressions, and the inquisitive nature of disjunctive, indefinite, and interrogative constructions. Instructions for Authors: Authors can submit anonymous abstracts of at most 250 words via easychair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=qid2012 Important Dates: Submission deadline: August 15, 2011 Notification: September 15, 2011 Conference: March 7-9, 2012 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.