Tagung 2019:
“Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives in Romance and elsewhere”
Am 16.07.19 um 9 Uhr wird ein Workshop zur Grammatik von Fragekonstruktionen in der Romania im Haus zur Lieben Hand, Großer Saal stattfinden.
The workshop analyzes the use of interrogatives from a discourse-pragmatic perspective, with a focus on Romance languages. We are particularly interested in the following questions:
- (a) Can we predict whether or not an interrogative will be used at a specific point in discourse?
- (b) Which kinds of interpretation can interrogatives receive and are there formal correlates of these discourse functions?
- (c) Which language-specific differences exist in Romance and elsewhere regarding this form-function relationship?
Specific topics addressed by the talks in the workshop are the use of interrogatives to express discourse functions other than questions, the influence of formal features such as intonation, negation and tense on the interpretation of interrogatives, and the variation between different syntactic interrogative constructions such as ex-situ vs. in-situ wh-interrogatives.
