Semantics Research Group Special Event, June 21–22, 2014
[Japanese | English]
Location
University of the Ryukyus
Researcher Exchange Facility 50th Anniversary Memorial Hall
Multi-purpose exchange lounge (2nd floor)
Saturday, June 21
- 10:00–12:00
- Eric McCready, Evidence and Experience
- 14:00–16:00
- Kiyomi Kusumoto, Geis-ambiguity and tense in adjunct clauses
Sunday, June 22
- 10:00–12:00
- Christopher Davis, TBA
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- Christopher Tancredi, Question-Answer Congruence
In this talk I argue that a single focus-background structure is insufficient to account for the possibility of simultaneously answering a question and contrasting with a statement preceding the question in context. I propose a revised account that incorporates Krifka's <Background,Focus> structure but adds to it a <Given,Topic> structure. The former structure is argued to be relevant to question-answer congruence and the latter to discourse contrast.
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