Information Structure: Form and Interpretation
University of Vienna, 20 July 2018.
In the context of the 23rd LFG Conference, we're organizing an Information Structure Workshop.
Preliminary Program:
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Invited talk | Ad Neeleman |
| 10:35 - 11:10 | Information Structure - QP Scope Interaction patterns:some novel insights into IS-driven movement and the mechanisms of scope freezing | Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Break | |
| 11:25 – 12:00 | Focus marking strategies in Kusaal | Hasyiatu Abubakari |
| 12:05 - 12:40 | Contrast in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): a unifying semantic-pragmatic analysis | Alexandra Navarrete-González |
| 12:40 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 15:05 | Word order variation in Urdu/Hindi Wh-Constituent questions | Miriam Butt & Farhat Jabeen |
| 15:10 - 15:45 | Focus interpretation and the syntax-prosody filter in Spanish | Steffen Heidinger |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00 - 16:35 | How information structure shapes prosody in Egyptian Arabic | Dina El Zarka |
| 16:40 - 17:15 | A non-unified account of obligatory ‘focused’ expressions in Hungarian | Flora Lili Donati |
You can find a pdf version of the workshop program here.
⇒ People who would like to contribute to this workshop, please see the Call for Papers.