Relatives interrogatives alternatives
Program
Program
Wednesday 13 Nov
13:15 Welcome & Intro
13:45 Hubert Truckenbrodt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Stress reconstruction in relative clauses
15:15 Coffee
15:30 Elodie Winckel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Université de Paris): Focus, topic, and subextraction from subjects [slides]
16:30 Radek Šimík (Charles University in Prague): A new semantics for relative wh-words
17:30 End of day 1
Thursday 14 Nov
9:30 Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh): Indefinite/interrogatives and relatives in Early Indo-European [slides]
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Roland Meyer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The connection between relatives and wh-interrogatives in the history of Slavic languages [handout]
12:00 Ingrid Konrad (Paris Diderot University): When an interrogative clause derived from a relative clause syntactically behaves as a relative clause: The case of French ce que [slides]
12:45 Lunch
14:45 Adnana Boioc Apintei (University of Bucharest): Issues on relative constructions in Lipovan Romanian
15:30 Francesco Beltrame (University School for Advanced Studies Pavia): Focus and topic propositions in why-questions: An experimental study on Italian
16:15 Coffee
16:30 Daniel Büring (University of Vienna): Focus and topic alternatives in questions and relatives [handout]
18:00 End of day 2
Firday 15 Nov
9:30 Hana Strachoňová (Charles University in Prague / Masaryk University in Brno): From questions to relatives in Czech Sign Language [slides]
10:30 Coffee
10:45 Muriel Assmann (University of Vienna): Interpreting the ordering effects of contrastive topics and foci in Brazilian Portuguese [slides]
11:45 Izabela Jordanoska (University of Vienna) and Erlinde Meertens (University of Konstanz): Macedonian li: Opening a window into multiple layers of focus marking
12:45 Closing remarks & End of workshop