There are many contributions by XPrag.de members at Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (SuB 21) to be held at the University of Edinburgh, September 4-6 2016.
On September 4th at 16:40 pm, Joseph P. DeVeaugh-Geiss, Swantje Tönnis, Edgar Onea and Malte Zimmermann from project ExCl will give a talk with the title “That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non-)exhaustivity in it-clefts“. Afterwards, within the same session at 17:20 pm, Marie-Christine Meyer from project SSI will talk about “Contrastive topic and local weakening SIs”
On September 5th at 9:45, Doris Penka from project BiasQ will talk on “One many, many readings“.
On September 6th at 9:00, XPrag.de associate Stefan Hinterwimmer (Cologne) will give a talk on “Two kinds of perspective taking in narrative texts“. At 10:20, XPrag.de Junior Fellow Barbara Tomaszewicz will give a talk together with Alexandra Spalek on “Reading times with complement coercion in Polish: The role of selectional restrictions“. At 11:30, there will be a keynote talk by Sigrid Beck from project ObTrEx with the title “Towards a model of incremental composition“. In the afternoon, at 14:40 Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro from project SSI will talk on “Conjunctive disjunctions: Evidence for the ambiguity theory” followed by a talk by Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner from project SIgames on “Embedded disjunctions and the best response paradigm” at 15:20.
In addition, there will be several poster presentations by XPrag.de members. Nicole Gotzner from project SIGames will present a poster together with Jacopo Romoli with the title “Testing theories of alternatives with multiple scalar term sentences“. Oliver Bott from project CiC will present a poster on joint work with Torgrim Solstad with the title “Domain knowledge influences the processing of connectives: Eyetracking during reading“. A. Marlijn Meijer and Sophie Repp from project YesNo will present a poster on “Modal subordination of propositions: the Dutch and German modal particles ook and auch and the subjunctive“. Nadine Bade from project ObTrEx will present a poster on “Additives as a window into local exhaustivity implicatures” And, XPrag.de associate Stephanie Solt from ZAS Berlin will present a poster on “Proportional comparatives and relative scales“.