Monday, August 5
17:00-17:30
Anton Benz & Katja Jasinskaja (Centre for General Linguistics / ZAS, Berlin)
Discourse Coherence, Information Structure and Implicatures: An Introduction.
17:30-18:00
Chris Cummins (U Bielefeld)
Priming and QUD versus implicatures
18:00-18:30
Maria Spychalska (U Bochum)
Pragmatic effects in processing superlative and comparative quantifiers: The role of clausal implicatures
Tuesday, August 6
17:00-17:30
Elaine Stranahan (Harvard U)
Local vs. Global Maximize Presupposition and the Temporal Duration Parameter
17:30-18:30 - invited talk
Jacques Jayez (ENS de Lyon)
The Discourse Contribution of Oblique Material
Wednesday, August 7
17:00-17:30
Matthijs Westera (U Amsterdam)
The Rise and Fall of Cooperativity
17:30-18:00
Malte Rosemeyer & Daniel Jacob (U Freiburg)
Towards an explicit model of Common Ground: Implications for information structure
18:00-18:30
Philip Schulz (U Tübingen / ILLC, U Amsterdam)
Focus as a discourse functor
Thursday, August 8
17:00-17:30
Daniel Altshuler (U Düsseldorf)
OCCASION, NARRATION or both?
17:30-18:00
Sophia Döring (Humboldt-U Berlin)
The Interplay of Modal Particles and Discourse Relations
18:00-18:30
Jennifer Spenader (U Groningen)
Discourse connectives vs. paraphrases: What influences likelihood and form of reference in the absence of verb semantics?
Friday, August 9
17:00-17:30
Upsorn Tawilapakul (U York)
What comprises a counter-expectation
17:30-18:30 - invited talk
Edgar Onea (U Göttingen)
Potential Questions: From Specificational Particles to Discourse Analysis
Alternate speakers
Edo Collins and Amit Vrubel (U Tübingen)
To say or not to say
Chungmin Lee (Seoul National U)
Contrastive Topic, Contrastive Focus, and (Scalar) Implicatures
