On July 11-13, 2018 the workshop “Scalar Implicatures: Formal and Experimental Exploration” will take place at the University of Siena, Italy. The workshop is organized by XPrag.de associate Salvatore Pistoia-Reda (ZAS Berlin, U Siena), XPrag.de coordinator Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin), XPrag.de associate Filippo Domaneschi (U Genoa for XPRAG.it) and Valentina Bianchi (U Siena). The new deadline for submissions is May 15th, 2018. More details and the call for papers can be found here!

On September 26-28, 2018, the workshop “Computational Models of Language Generation and Processing in Pragmatics” will take place at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. The workshop is organized by the XPrag.de members Anton Benz (SiGames, ZAS Berlin), Michael Franke (Pro^3, Tübingen), Matthias Unterhuber and Markus Werning (both BayesPrag@EEG, Bochum) together with Christoph Hesse (ZAS Berlin) and Ralf Klabunde (Bochum). Deadline for submissions is June 1st, 2018! Please find the call for papers and more details here.

From April 16th to April 18th, XPrag.de associate Filippo Domaneschi, who is the director of the project “EXPRESS – Experimenting on Presuppositions” at the University of Genoa, is visiting the XPrag.de projects located at ZAS Berlin. He will also gave a talk together with Diana Mazarella (ZAS Berlin) on “Presuppositional effects and ostensive-inferential communication”. Time and venue: April 17th, 2018 3:30 p.m., ZAS Berlin, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 4th floor, room 403.

On June 6-7th, 2018 the workshop “The pragmatics of quantifiers: implicature and presupposition” will take place at ZAS Berlin. The workshop is organized by Bob van Tiel and Uli Sauerland from the XPrag.de project “MUQTASP” together with XPrag.de associate Stephanie Solt (ZAS Berlin). Deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2018. More details and the call for papers can be found here!

An impressive number of XPrag.de members will present at the 31st Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference to be held at UCDavis, University of California, March 15-17, 2018.

On Thursday March 15th, 2018 at Poster Session A (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM), five posters will be presented by XPrag.de members:

• “Predicting the negative: Investigating the comprehension of negated sentences in an event-related potential study”, Viviana Haase and Markus Werning (BayesPrag@EEG, Bochum)
• “Incremental processing relies on underspecified morphosyntactic information”, Florian Bogner and Petra Schumacher (InfoPer2, Cologne)
• “Adapting to the unreliable – speech adaptation in real-time interpretation of intonation”, Timo Roettger and Michael Franke (Pro^3, Tübingen)
• “Communicative efficiency and implicature in multi-party conversation”, Nicole Gotzner (SiGames, ZAS Berlin), Lisa Raithel and Anton Benz (SiGames, ZAS Berlin)
• “Rates of scalar inferences beyond ‘some’ – A corpus study”, Chao Sun (Fellow in MUQTASP, ZAS Berlin), Ye Tian and Richard Breheny

On Friday March 16, 2018 at Poster Session B (12:00 PM – 2:00 PM), 11 posters and one talk will be presented by XPrag.de members:

• “The Aging Factor in Processing Presuppositions”, Simona Di Paola and Filippo Domaneschi (XPrag.de associate, EXPRESS)
• “Approaching scalar diversity through (RSA with) Lexical Uncertainty”, Chao Sun (Fellow in MUQTASP, ZAS Berlin) and Richard Breheny
• “Integrating Listener and Speaker Characteristics into the Coordinated Interplay Account”, Katja Münster and Pia Knoeferle (FoTeRo, Berlin)
• “Evidence for multiple memory representations from discourse anaphora and ellipsis”, John Duff and Lyn Frazier (XPrag.de Mercator Fellow)
• “Pronouns at the right frontier: discourse structure affects accessibility of final appositives”, Alexander Göbel (Fellow in InfoPer, Cologne)
• “Exploring? Adjective? Ordering Preferences via Artificial Language Learning”, Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell and Judith Degen (Pro^3, Stanford)
• “If I were you: Inducing Non-default Interpretations of Perspective-sensitive Items in the Visual World”, Johanna Klages (ProProCon, Göttingen), Elsi Kaiser, Anke Holler (ProProCon, Göttingen) and Thomas Weskott (ProProCon, Göttingen)
• “Attentional cueing in non-canonical OVS sentences in German”, Diana Dimitrova and Petra B. Schumacher (InfoPer2, Cologne)
• “Be timely: how turn-taking gaps constrain the integration of alternatives in implicatures”, John Michael Tomlinson, Jr. (XPrag.de associate, ZAS Berlin)
• “Shared mechanism underlying non-embedded and embedded enrichments: evidence from enrichment priming”, Chao Sun (Fellow in MUQTASP, ZAS Berlin) and Richard Breheny
• “What do eye movements in the visual world reflect? A case study from adjectives”, Ciyang Qing, Daniel Lassiter (XPrag.de associate, Stanford) and Judith Degen (Pro^3, Stanford)

In the afternoon at 2:00 PM, there will be a talk by Maria Spychalska (ImpliPer, Cologne), Viviana Haase, Jarmo Kontinen and Markus Werning (BayesPrag@EEG, Bochum) on “The role of alternatives in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences”.

On Saturday March 15, 2018 at 9:00 AM, XPrag.de coordinator Petra Schumacher (Cologne) will give a talk together with Melanie Fuchs on “Neural correlates of attentional (re-)orientation: The case of German demonstratives”.

At Poster Session C (12:00 PM – 2:00 PM) two further posters with XPrag.de members involved will be presented:

• “Mutual Information Impacts Adjective Ordering Across Languages”, Michael Hahn, Richard Futrell, Judith Degen (Pro^3, Stanford), Dan Jurafsky and Noah Goodman
• “Verbs, not subjects, drive subject-as-agent misinterpretation in children’s comprehension of passives”, Lara Ehrenhofer, Kazuko Yatsushiro (XPrag.de associate, ZAS Berlin), Tom Fritzsche, Barbara Höhle, Jeffrey Lidz, Colin Phillips and Yi Ting Huang

There will be serveral contributions by XPrag.de members at the 40th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) to be held at the University of Stuttgart from March 7th-9th, 2018.

XPrag.de coordinator Petra Schumacher is one of the organizers of the workshop AG2 on “The relation between prosodic and referential structure”. At this workshop, there will be a talk on March 7th, at 15:15 by XPrag.de principal investigator Stavros Skopeteas from project “FoTeRo” (now in Göttingen) together with Markus Greif on “Discourse status, lexical mention, and prosodic plasticity”. On March 8th, at 10:00, XPrag.de member Nicole Gotzner from project “SIGames” will talk together with Katharina Spalek (Berlin) on “Speakers’ expectations about upcoming discourse referents: Effects of pitch accents and focus particles”, followed by a talk of Petra Schumacher and colleagues on “The processing of German Pitch Accents by Italian learners of German” at 11:15.

On March 8th at 9:30, XPrag.de associate Stefan Hinterwimmer (Cologne) will give a talk together with Sandra Meuser on “Free indirect discourse and protagonist’s prominence” at the workshop AG10 “Rede- und Gedankenwiedergabe in narrativen Strukturen”. After this talk, the XPrag.de principal investigators Anke Holler and Thomas Weskott from project “ProProCon” in Göttingen will talk on “Perspektivierungstrigger: Vom Wort zum Diskurs (und zurück)”.

Furthermore, XPrag.de principal investigator Anton Benz from project “SIGames” is an invited speaker at the workshop AG16 “Applications of probability theory in linguistics”. On March 9th at 13:15, Anton will talk on “Inferring implicature from production: interactive experiments and a model”.

There will be several presentations by XPrag.de members at the “Workshop 2018 Uncertainty in Meaning and Representation in Linguistics and Philosophy” to be held in Jelenia Góra, 21-23 February 2018, as a satellite event to the 19th Szklarska Poreba Workshop.

On Wednesday 21 February, 21.10-22.00 Principal Investigator Anton Benz from project “SiGames” at ZAS Berlin will talk on “Implicature from production: Interactive experiments and a model”.
On Thursday 22 February, 17.50-18.30 XPrag.de associate Dan Lassiter (Stanford) will talk on “Conditionals are thoroughly probabilistic, and why that’s not scary”, followed by a talk by XPrag.de Principal Investigator Maria Spychalska from project “ImpliPer” in Cologne on “Scalar Implicatures in partial information contexts”.
On Friday 23 February, 9.00-9.50 Principal Investigator Edgar Onea from project “ExQ” in Graz will talk on “Exhaustivity Inferences with Focus”.

There will be several presentions by XPrag.de members at the 19th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics to be held on the top of the Szrenica mountain in the Giant Mountains on the border of Poland and the Czech Republic on February 23-26, 2018.

On Friday February 23, 17:50-18:20, Lea Fricke and Carla Bombi from project “ExQ” will talk on “Exhaustivity of wh-interrogatives embedded under German wissen (‘know’)”. On 20:35-21:20 XPrag.de associate Daniel Lassiter (Stanford) will talk on “Mathematical counterfactuals and procedural meaning”
On Sunday February 25, 09:00-09:30, there will be a talk by XPrag.de coordinator Uli Sauerland together with Kazuko Yatsushiro, Artemis Alexiadou, Vasifye Geckin and Veronika Harmati-Pap with the title “The plural is unmarked: Turkish, German and Hungarian evidence”.

There are several presentations by XPrag.de members at the Linguistic Evidence 2018 to be held at Tübingen University, 15th to 17th February, 2018.

On Thursday, February 15, at 16:40 Johanna Klages, Anke Holler and Thomas Weskott from project “ProProCon” in Göttingen will give a talk together with Elsi Kaiser (Los Angeles) with the title “On interpreting perspective – sensitive items: An experimental study”.

On Friday, February 16, at 17:40 XPrag.de members Tim Graf, Markus Philipp and Beatrice Primus from project “AATIC” in Cologne will give a talk together with Franziska Kretzschmar (Cologne) on “What is a sentient agent?”

On Saturday, February 17, at 10:00 XPrag.de members Janna Drummer, Claudia Felser and Cecilia Puebla from project “L2PronRes” in Potsdam will give a talk together with the former project member Clare Patterson (now Cologne) on “The role of structural and surface-level constraints in real-time pronoun resolution”

At the Poster session on Thursday, February 15th, 18:10, there will be a poster presented by XPrag.de member Carla Bombi from project “ExQ” in Potsdam and the former XPrag.de member Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (Potsdam) on “Quantitative data in the field: a case study on Akan”

On January 23rd, Maribel Romero, Prinicipal Investigator from project “BiasQ” (Konstanz) will give a talk on the meaning of questions at “Treffpunkt Sprache”. In this lecture series, current topics of interdisciplinary interest around language and their investigation are presented. The series is organized by ZAS Berlin in cooperation with the Institute for German Language and Linguistics and the Institute for Philosophy of Humboldt University and is aimed at scientists, students and interested laymen.

Title: “Was wir tun, wenn wir eine Frage stellen”
Time and Venue: 6:15 p.m., Humboldt University, Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin, room 1.101