XPrag.de member Nadine Bade from project “ExCl” in Tübingen will give a talk at the Synsm Colloquium on Tuesday, January 19th at 4.15 p.m. at Potsdam University, Campus Golm, Hs.14, 0.09. She will talk on „Obligatory presuppositions as a window into exhaustivity implicatures”.

The program of the workshop on “Questions, Answers and Negation”, organized by the XPrag.de projects “YesNo” (HU Berlin), “BiasQ” (U Konstanz) and “MoLCINS” (U Tübingen) to be held at ZAS Berlin from January 20-22, 2016 is online now. Details and abstracts of the talks can be found here!. In case you would like to attend, please register via e-mail by Tuesday, 12th at the latest!

The program of the workshop on “Trends in Experimental Pragmatics-TiXPrag1” to be held at ZAS Berlin from January 18-20, 2016 is online now. More details and extended abstracts of the talks and posters can be found here! In case you would like to attend, please register via e-mail by Tuesday, 12th at the latest!

On June 2nd -3rd, 2016 the workshop “Disjunction Days: Theoretical and experimental perspectives on the semantics and pragmatics of disjunction” organized by Nicole Gotzner (SIGames), Uli Sauerland (SSI) and Maribel Romero (BiasQ) will take place at ZAS Berlin. More details and the call for submissions can be found here!

XPrag.de Junior Fellow Barbara Tomaszewicz from University of Cologne will give a talk on “Focus association revealed in reading times” today at 4 p.m. at ZAS Berlin. The abstract can be found here.

On May 19-20th, 2016, a workshop on “The role of pragmatic factors in child language processing” organized by Pia Knoeferle (HU Berlin), Barbara Höhle (Potsdam), Julia Kröger (Bielefeld), Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld) and Isabell Wartenburger (Potsdam) will take place in Berlin. The deadline for submissions is January 15th, 2016!
Abstracts can be submitted here!

XPrag.de member Oliver Bott from project “CiC” in Tübingen will give a talk together with Udo Klein (Bielefeld) and Fabian Schlotterbeck (Tübingen) at the “Workshop on Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification” to be held on October 16-17 2015 in Budapest, Hungary. They will talk on “Empty set effects during online comprehension and verification of quantifiers” on October 17th at 11:00 a.m. The abstract can be found here!

XPrag.de member Maribel Romero from project “BiasQ” in Konstanz and XPrag.de member Andreea Nicolae from project “SSI” at ZAS Berlin will give talks at “The 46th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society” (NELS 46) to be held at Concordia University (Montréal, Québec) on October 16-18, 2015.

On Friday 16th, at 3:30 p.m. Andreea will give a talk on “Simple disjunction PPIs – a case for obligatory epistemic inferences”.
On Saturday 17th, at 9 a.m. Maribel will talk on “POS and the relative proportional reading of many”.
On Sunday 18th at 10:45 a.m. Andreea will give another talk together with Patrick Elliott (UCL) and Yasutada Sudo (UCL) on “List Readings of Conjoined Singular Which-Phrases”.

XPrag.de associate Stephanie Solt from project “Scales” at ZAS Berlin will give a talk at the Annual meeting of the “Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics” which will take place at the Bar Ilan University on 13-14 October 2015. Stephanie will talk on October 14th at 5:20 p.m. on “Granularity and weak disjunctions”. The abstract can be found here!

XPrag.de member Malte Zimmermann from project “ExCl” at Potsdam University is invited speaker at the Annual meeting of the “Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics” which will take place at the Bar Ilan University on 13-14 October 2015. Malte will talk on October 13th at 9:50 on “Scalar Particles and the analysis of Contrastive Topics: A cross-linguistic investigation of English and Vietnamese”.