Polar question meaning[s] across languages
April 11-13, 2024, University of Amsterdam
https://sites.google.com/view/poqal-amsterdam/call-for-papers
Abstracts due: January 15, 2024
The last decade has seen a steady increase in work on question meaning, in
particular polar question meaning, with relatively new notions like bias
becoming front and center. At the same time, the empirical field has widened
to include some understanding of various forms fulfilling the polar question
function. Spanning not only interrogatives but also declaratives, tags, and
alternatives, these forms raise important questions for the relationship
between form and meaning.
Beyond these polar-like question forms familiar from widely studied languages,
recent research has shown that across languages further lexical and
structural means are deployed to create components of complex polar question
meanings. From particles enforcing certain bias inferences in Japanese and
Mandarin to those that drive a “non-intrusive” meaning in Bulgarian and
Romanian, from evidentials interacting with polar question meaning in Bangla
and German to focus-sensitive polar question marking in Finnish, Slavic and
Turkish, phenomena that speak to further and richer dimensions of meaning have
been uncovered.
This workshop aims to bring together work that continues this line of research
. We invite abstracts that formally address aspects of polar(-like) question
forms across languages, and theorize on polar question meaning and its
components based on a wide range of data (of forms as well as languages). We
are particularly excited to hear about manifestations of meaning in pragmatic
and social levels that connect to formal grammatical events such as clausal
structure, negation, focus and intonation.
Please limit abstracts of max. 2 pages to two abstracts per (co-)author and
send to [email protected] .
Invited speakers:
* Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota)
* Regine Eckardt (Konstanz University)
* Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
* Deniz Rudin (University of Southern California)
Important data:
* Abstracts due: January 15, 2024
* Decisions announced: January 31, 2024
* WS Date: April 11-13, 2024
WS location: University of Amsterdam Humanities Labs room F0.01.
https://www.uva.nl/en/locations/binnenstad/bushuis.html?origin=uq5cmYnUS0mTwIPG0l%2FQxA
Contact person: Beste Kamali ([email protected], [email protected])
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