Organizers: ExCl
Time: 18-20 September 2014
Venue: Universität Göttingen, Hörsaal PH20, Humboldtallee 19
Thursday, 18 September
| 09:00-09:45 | Edgar Onea, Malte Zimmermann, Joseph P. DeVeaugh-Geiss, Anna-Christina Boell Welcome / Project Presentation “Exhaustivity in It-Clefts” (slides) |
| 09:45-10:30 | Hans Kamp t.b.a. |
| 10:30-10:45 | coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Judith Tonhauser “What’s the Question? Towards a Monosemous Analysis of Evaluative Adjectives” |
| 11:30-12:15 | Maria Aloni, Floris Roelofsen, Nadine Theiler “Embedded Interrogatives: The Role of False Answers” (slides) |
| 12:15-13:00 | Manuel Kriz “Issues and Granularity: Definite and Indefinite Plurals” |
| 13:00-14:30 | lunch at “Chiang Mai” Thai restaurant, Nikolausberger Weg 27 |
| 14:30-15:15 | Yimei Xiang “A Semantic Approach to the Distribution of Mention-Some Questions” |
| 15:15-16:00 | Arndt Riester t.b.a. |
| 16:00-16:15 | coffee break |
| 16:15-17:00 | Andreea Nicolae “Exhaustivity and NPI Licensing in Wh-Questions” |
| 17:00-17:45 | Tanja Rojas-Esponda “Structure in the Space of Discourse Particles” |
| 19:00-til | dinner at “Zum Szültenbürger” restaurant, Prinzenstraße 7 |
Friday, 19 September
| 09:00-09:45 | Manfred Krifka “Focus in Question Acts” |
| 09:45-10:30 | Beste Kamali “The Intricacies of Polar Questions in Turkish” |
| 10:30-10:45 | coffee break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Wataru Uegaki “Nominal Complements of Attitude Predicates and the Semantics of Question-Embedding” |
| 11:30-12:15 | Elsi Kaiser “Experimental Investigations of English Clefts: Exhaustivity and Alternatives” |
| 12:15-12:45 | Eva Shipova “Semantics of èto-clefts in Russian” |
| 12:45-14:00 | lunch at “Mensa am Turm” cafeteria, Goßlerstraße 12 b |
| 14:00-14:45 | Martin Aher “Deontic and Epistemic Modals in Suppositional [Inquisitive] Semantics” (slides) |
| 14:45-15:30 | David Beaver t.b.a. |
| 17:00-18:30 | social activity: Führung Göttinger Unterwelten |
| 19:00-til | dinner at “ Bullerjahn” restaurant, Markt 9 |
Saturday, 20 September
| 09:00-10:30 | Discussion on experimental approaches to exhaustiveness in clefts and exclusives |
| 10:30-11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Discussion on other topics that emerged during the workshop |
| 12:00-12:15 | Closing remarks |