The Linguistics department at the University of Konstanz is happy to announce a workshop on non-canonical questions to take place in June 7-9 2018. The workshop is under the umbrella of the DFG funded research unit (FOR2111) Questions at the interfaces.

Much work has been done to understand the semantics and pragmatics of interrogative clauses in natural language. In this workshop, we aim to expand and further develop this work by focusing on non-canonical questions. We are especially interested in papers addressing the empirical landscape and the semantic/pragmatic modeling of the ways of raising issues that go beyond plain information-seeking. Possible phenomena of interest include, but are by no means limited to:

• Discourse particles in interrogatives
• Question-Particles in interrogative clauses (e.g. Kya in Hindi/Urdu, mI in Turkish)
• Word order in questions
• Self-addressed questions
• Rhetorical questions
• Biased questions
• Tag-questions
• Embedding of canonical and non-canonical questions
• The role of prosody in shaping non-canonical questions

Invited speakers:

• Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers University)
• Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Benjamin Spector (CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure - Institut Jean Nicod)
• Malte Zimmermann (Universität Potsdam)

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with additional 15 minutes for discussion). Abstracts must be anonymous and should be at most 2 pages (US Letter or A4) in length, including examples and references, using a 12pt font with 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins for US letter and 3 cm for A4 paper, on all four sides. Abstracts must be submitted as a single PDF. Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being single-authored.

Deadline for Submission: February 4th

Submission: EasyChair