Schedule
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Day 1
11.4.2024 Thursday
Registration 8:30-8:50
Session 1 chair: James Trujillo
8:50–9:00
Welcome
9:00-9:40
Polar questions in NGT: a new method to investigate the role of facial expressions
[Lyke Esselink, Marloes Oomen, Floris Roelofsen]
9:40-10:20
Visual cues in Dutch polar questions
[Elynn Weijland, Lyke Esselink, Marloes Oomen, Floris Roelofsen]
Break 10:20–10:35
Session 2 chair: Tomasz Klochowicz
10:35–11:15
Answers to questions and dynamic propositional discourse referents
[Manfred Krifka]
11:15–11:55
An Inquisitive Marker in Kaingang
[Michel Navarro, Hotze Rullmann, Lisa Matthewson]
Break 11:55–12:10
Session 3 chair: Beste Kamali
12.10–13:10
Invited Talk: Counterexpectational polar questions, with miratives
[Diti Bhadra]
Lunch at premises 13:10–14:00
Session 4 chair: Marco Degano
14:00–14:40
Polar questions and degree answers in Ktunaxa
[Starr Sandoval, Marcin Morzycki, Anne Bertrand]
14:40–15:20
What? Quote to Challenge? Polar questions in the Incredulity Response Construction
[Kyongjoon Kwon]
15:20–16:00
Hindi-Urdu bhala's puzzling behavior in polar questions
[Ahmad Jabbar, Veda Kanamarlapudi] Online
Break 16:00-16:15
Session 5 chair: Maria Aloni
16:15–17:15
Invited Talk: “Are you crazy?” — New controversies in rhetorical questions
[Regine Eckardt]
Self-paid workshop dinner starting 18:00 (for map see Socials)
Day 2
12.4.2024 Friday
Start 9:00
Session 1 chair: Giorgio Sbardolini
9:00-9:40
Asymmetries in canonical and non-canonical polar questions
[Valentina Bianchi, Silvio Cruschina]
9:40-10:20
Conducive QUD-shift: polar questions initiating and pursuing strategies
[Beáta Gyuris]
Break 10:20–10:35
Session 2 chair: Dean McHugh
10:35–11:15
Toward a crosslinguistically viable account of evidential bias
[Beste Kamali, Takanobu Nakamura]
11:15–11:55
Strong and weak biases in Mandarin Chinese polar questions
[Ruoying Zhao, Keyu Dong]
Break 11:55–12:10
Session 3 chair: Floris Roelofsen
12.10–13:10
Invited Talk: Deriving question bias from clause typing, context update, and pragmatics
[Deniz Rudin]
Lunch at premises 13:10–14:00
Session 4 chair: Émile Enguehard
14:00–14:40
Cross-linguistic semantics of high negation in polar questions: Evidence from Czech
[Radek Šimík, Anna Staňková, Michaela Chodounská]
14:40–15:20
Polarity, contrast, and inquisitivity: Deriving the negativity of the Estonian particle ega
[Tom Roberts]
15:20–16:00
A semantic constraint on polar questions in Vietnamese
[Tue Trinh]
Break 16:00-16:15
Session 5 chair: Robert van Rooij
16:15–17:15
Invited Talk: Three types of polar questions, and an answer to the monopolar/bipolar debate
[Lisa Matthewson]
[note different location; see Venue]
Day 3
13.4.2024 Saturday
Start 9:00
Session 1 chair: Jenia Khristoforova
9:00-9:40
Polar question meaning in Slavic: Visual world eye-tracking evidence
[Mariia Razgulieva, Maria Onoeva, Kateřina Hrdinková, Radek Šimík, Roland Meyer]
9:40-10:20
Epistemic adverbs in polar interrogatives: a view from Russian
[Pavel Astafiev] online
Break 10:20–10:35
Session 2 chair: Beste Kamali
10:35–11:15
On interrogative, declarative and imperative uses of Russian discourse particle čto li: are they the same čto li?
[Maria Onoeva]
11:15–11:55
To Q or not to Q
[Masha Esipova]
11:55–12:35
To li or not to li
[Masha Esipova, Natasha Korotkova]
12:35-12:45