Workshop on Biscuit Conditionals
Jointly organized with the Hamburg Emmy Noether group ‘Ontology after Quine‘ and the Konstanz Emmy Noether group ‘What is it to ask a question? A formal pragmatic investigation of interrogative force‘
The two-day workshop will take place on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st October in Hamburg. Here is the schedule:
Program
| Friday, October 20, 2017 | |
|---|---|
| 9.30-11.00 | Eric Swanson: Assorted Biscuits and Conversational Implicatures |
| 11.15-12.45 | Maria Biezma and Arno Goebel: Am I a biscuit? Biscuits and wannabes |
| 14.30-16.00 | Chi-Hé Elder: If you see what I mean: Metalinguistic markers as biscuit conditionals |
| 16.15-17.45 | Sven Lauer: Biscuit conditionals, questions, and biscuit conditional questions |
| Saturday, October 21, 2017 | |
| 9.30-11.00 | Julia Zakkou: Varieties of biscuit conditionals |
| 11.15-12.45 | Eva Csipak: Is there a “biscuit” word order in German? |
| 14.30-16.00 | Daniel Dohrn: Biscuits and Semi-Factuals |
| 16.15-17.45 | Manfred Krifka: Biscuit conditionals as anticipatory speech acts |
The workshop will take place in Hörsaal H (Eduard-Heimann-Hörsaal) of the main University building: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/onTEAM/campus/index.html?loc=i1303307338
Attendance is free, but please let us know if you are interested in attending by emailing Julia Zakkou.