7th October 2019
Brechtbau, Wilhelmstr. 50, Room: 027
9:00-9:10 | Welcome | |
9:10-10:00 | Judith Tonhauser (based on joint work with Judith Degen, Stanford University) (The Ohio State University / Universität Stuttgart) |
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| Projective content: On the roles of grammar, discourse and world knowledge | [PDF] | |
10:00-10:50 | Roger Levy (MIT) |
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Context representation and expectation-based human language processing | ||
10:50-11:10 | Coffee break |
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11:10-12:00 | Sophie Repp (Universität zu Köln) | |
| How ambiguous are response particles? The role of prosody and type of antecedent clause | [PDF] | |
12:00-12:50 | Kristine Bentzen (Universitetet i Tromsø) | |
| Pronominal reference in discourse: Ambiguity resolved by form and position | [PDF] | |
12:50-14:10 | Lunch break | |
14:10-15:00 | Hannah Rohde (The University of Edinburgh) |
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Ambiguity of reference and intention: Reverse engineering speaker meaning | [PDF] | |
15:00-15:50 | Valéria Molnár & Susanne Winkler (Lunds Universitet, Universität Tübingen) | |
| Strategic functions of questions and ambiguity: A comparison between German and Swedish | [PDF] | |
15:50-16:20 | Coffee break |
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16:20-17:10 | Craige Roberts (The Ohio State University) | |
| The Question Under Discussion in anaphora resolution | ||
17:10-17:50 | Maren Rohleder (Universität Tübingen) |
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Questions and ambiguity in political speeches | ||
| 18:30 | Dinner |
8th October 2019
Brechtbau, Wilhelmstr. 50, Room: 027
| 9:00-9:50 | Peter W. Culicover, Giuseppe Varaschin & Susanne Winkler (The Ohio State University, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Universität Tübingen) | |
| In pursuit of Condition C: The ambiguity of pronominal reference in discourse | [PDF] | |
| 9:50-10:40 | Joachim Jacobs (Universität Wuppertal) | |
| On focusing operators | [PDF] | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:40 | Asya Achimova, Martin Butz, Gregory Scontras & Peter Staroverov (Universität Tübingen, Universität Tübingen, UC Irvine, Wayne State University) |
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| Topics take wide scope: An empirical test of a theoretical claim | [PDF] | |
| 11:40-12:30 | Kordula De Kuthy (Universität Tübingen) |
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Adjuncts as discourse units: a QUD-based approach | [PDF] | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break |
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| 14:00-14:50 | Andrew Kehler (based on joint work with Till Poppels, UC San Diego) (UC San Diego) | |
| Mismatched ellipses are easy to create if you know how: Ellipsis, reference, and the QUD | ||
| 14:50-15:30 | Alvaro Cortés Rodríguez (Universität Tübingen) | |
| The role of heaviness in the acceptability of multiple sluicing constructions in English | [PDF] | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:50 | Lorenz Geiger & Andreas Konietzko (Universität Tübingen) |
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DP splits as a discourse structuring device |