Program
Venue
The workshop is held in the Konstanz old town, in the Freiräume (Vor der Halde 5, map).
Materials
We have put together a collection of materials (abstracts, handouts, slides). Individual materials are also linked below.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
| Morning Session (Chair: Andrea Beltrama) | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Sven Lauer (Konstanz): Moore’s paradox and hedging with “I believe”: An attempt. (handout, slides) |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Sunwoo Jeong (Stanford): Deriving Social Meanings in an Extended Lewisian Model (slides) |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Deniz Rudin (Santa Cruz): Intonation as a Speech Act Modifier: Rising Declaratives and Imperatives (handout) |
| LUNCH | |
| Afternoon Session (Chair: Gisela Grohne) | |
| 02:00 - 02:45 | Peter Klecha (Swarthmore): On the Syntax and Semantics of Assertion (slides) |
| 02:45 - 03:30 | Yael Greenberg (Bar-Ilan) and Lavi Wolf (Ben Gurion): Gradable Assertion Speech Acts (handout) |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| 04:00 - 04:45 | Alda Mari (Jean Nicod): Belief and assertion. Evidence from mood shift. (slides) |
Friday, September 15, 2017
| Morning Session (Chair: Ramona Wallner) | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Natasha Korotkova (Tübingen): Diagnosing the semantic status of evidentials (slides) |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Tyler Peterson (Auckland): Modal Evidentials in Questions (slides) |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Kelsey Kraus (Santa Cruz): English mirative contours and particles (slides) |
| LUNCH | |
| Afternoon Session (Chair: Erlinde Meertens) | |
| 01:30 - 02:15 | Itamar Francez (Chicago): Suggesterogatives (handout) |
| 02:15 - 03:00 | Dietmar Zaefferer (Munich): Questioning performatives (slides) |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| 03:30 - 05:00 | Plenary Talk (Chair: Regine Eckardt) Joe Buffington (Albany Law): Certain Contractual Offers as Integrated Questions & Assertions (handout) |
Saturday, September 16, 2017
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Plenary Talk (Chair: Manfred Kupffer) Magdalena Kaufmann (UConn): Iffy Endorsements |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Morning Session (Chair: Manfred Kupffer) | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Matthew Lamm and Mihail Eric (Stanford): A Machine Learning Perspective on the Pragmatics of Indirect Commands (slides, paper) |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Hans-Martin Gärtner (RIL-HAS) and Markus Steinbach (Göttingen): Relating Inventories of Sentence Types and Speech Acts: A Look at Cognitive Approaches |
| LUNCH | |
| Afternoon Session (Chair: Qi Yu) | |
| 02:00 - 02:45 | Manfred Krifka (ZAS/Humboldt): Conditional sentences as conditional speech acts (slides) |
| 02:45 - 03:30 | Bart Geurts (Nijmegen): Commitments, speech acts, and common ground (slides, related manuscript) |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| 04:00 - 04:45 | Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion) and Manfred Krifka (ZAS/Humboldt): Challenging Speech Acts (slides) |
| 04:45 — 05:30 | Regine Eckardt (Konstanz): Non-representative speech acts at the table (handout) |