Thursday, 4 November
13.50-14.00
Welcome & Introduction
14.00-15.30
EKKEHARD KÖNIG (Berlin/Freiburg) & PETER SIEMUND (Hamburg):
Functional Distinctions in the Grammar of Sentence Types across Languages
15.30-16.00
Tea & Coffee Break
16.00-17.00
MARGA REIS (Tübingen):
Echo-Wh-Questions Revisited
17.00-18.00
JOSEF BAYER (Konstanz) & HANS-GEORG OBENAUER (Paris):
On the (In-)Dependence of Interpretation from Syntax - Evidence from 'Special Questions'
19.00
Conference Dinner
Venue: Ristorante Valmontone, Friedrichstr. 50 [Link to homepage]
Friday, 5 November
9.00-10.00
STEPHEN LEVINSON (Nijmegen):
Speech Acts in Action (and Interaction)
10.00-11.00
ROBERT M. HARNISH (Tucson):
Mood, Force, and Inference
11.00-11.30
Tea & Coffee Break
11.30-12.30
FRANÇOIS RECANATI (Paris):
Content, Mood, and Force
12.30-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00-15.00
ULRIKE ZESHAN (Preston):
The Typology of Interrogatives in Sign Languages
15.00-16.00
HANS-MARTIN GÄRTNER (Berlin):
Diachronic Perspectives on Sentence Types: Some Remarks and a Case Study
16.00-16.30
Tea & Coffee Break
16.30-18.30
ILSE ZIMMERMANN (Potsdam):
Where are the Worlds?
DIETER WUNDERLICH (Düsseldorf/Berlin):
80 Years with Manfred Bierwisch - On Literal Meaning, Parsimony and the Semantics of Mood
MANFRED BIERWISCH (Berlin):
Why Speech Acts aren't that special
18.30
Reception at the BBAW
Saturday, 6 November
9.00-10.00
NICHOLAS ASHER (Toulouse):
Big Speech Acts: Complex Constituents in Discourse Structure
10.00-11.00
ARIEL COHEN (Beer Sheva):
Epistemic Modals as Speech Act Modifiers
11.00-11.30
Tea & Coffee Break
11.30-12.30
DIETMAR ZAEFFERER (Munich):
'Is this a question, and if yes, what's the answer?' Performativity as Holophoricity
12.30-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00-15.00
MANFRED KRIFKA (Berlin):
Speech Acts: Not truth-conditional, but part of semantics
15.00-16.00
JONATHAN GINZBURG (London):
Speech Act Embedding and Clarificational Interaction
Contact E-Mail: ssi(at)zas.gwz-berlin.de
Homepage: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_ssi.html
