Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

SPAGAD Lecture Series: On the Grammar and Pragmatics of Exam Questions. Evidence from Marzahn German

Vortragende(r) Hans-Martin Gärtner & Andreas Pankau
Institution(en) NYTK Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics Budapest & IAWDS / Freie Universität Berlin
Datum 28.04.2023, 16:00 Uhr
Uhrzeit 16:00 Uhr
Ort Online (see below)

Commentary           Grzegorz Gaszczyk (University of Groningen)


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Abstract

New data from interrogative marking in (Berlin) Marzahn German provide striking grammatical evidence for Levinson's conjecture that askings of information questions come with a social cost. The same data complicate the analysis of exam questions as pretense information questions.