Speech Acts: Meanings, Uses, Syntactic and Prosodic Realizations

Der Workshop 'Speech Acts: Meanings, Uses, Syntactic and Prosodic Realizations’ bringt Wissenschaftler zusammen, die zu dem Thema der Form, Funktion und Modellierung von Sprechakten arbeiten. Präsentiert werden Forschungsarbeiten, welche die Verknüpfung und Einbettbarkeit von Sprechakten betreffen; Schwerpunktthemen bilden dabei die Einbettbarkeit von Imperativen, die Darstellung von Rede und Gedanken, die Behandlung verschiedener Perspektiven, Hauptsatz-Phänomene in eingebetteten Sätzen und die Natur der Assertion.

Date: May, 29th - 31th  
Organizers: Krifka, Manfred, Kjell Johan Sæbø & Hubert Truckenbrodt

Slides, handouts and additional recommended references

Manfred Bierwisch
Permanent Speech Acts

Cleo Condoravdi
Imperatives and Strength of Endorsement

• Cleo Condoravdi & Sven Lauer. 2017. "Conditional imperatives and endorsement”. To appear in the Proceedings of NELS 47.
• Sven Lauer & Cleo Condoravdi. 2014. “Preference-Conditioned Necessities: Detachment and Practical Reasoning”.
  Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 95, pp. 584-621.

Regine Eckardt
Speech acts as Contracts — A cooperation based approach

Markus Egg
You say yes, I say no:  discourse particles in assertions and denials

Werner Frey und André Meinunger
On strong and weak root phenomena

Hans-Martin Gärtner
Syntax and Speech Acts. Do Frameworks Matter?

• Gärtner, Hans-Martin, and Jens Michaelis. 2010. "On Modeling the Distribution of Declarative V2-Clauses: the Case of Disjunction." Pp. 11-25 in Judgements and Propositions, edited by Sebastian Bab and Klaus Robering. Berlin: Logos.
• Chapter 1 from Gärtner, Hans-Martin. 2015. "Special and Minor Sentence Types." Unpublished manuscript, RIL-HAS Budapest.

Yael Greenberg & Lavi Wolf
Assertions as degree relations 

Daniel Gutzmann
How to do multiple things with words. Speech acts and multiple contents

Roland Hinterhölzl
Embedded V2 and embedded speech acts?

Stefan Hinterwimmer
Two kinds of perspective taking in narrative texts

• Ebert, Christian, Cornelia Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer (2014). A Unified Analysis of Conditionals as Topics, Linguistics and Philosophy 37, 353-408.
• Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Peter Bosch (to appear). Demonstrative Pronouns and Propositional Attitudes, in Grosz, P.  & P. Patel-Grosz (eds.), Pronouns in Embedded Contexts, Dordrecht: Springer (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy).

Manfred Krifka
Assertions and judgements, epistemics and evidentials

Sven Lauer
Prolegomena to a comprehensive theory of interrogative force

Emar Maier
Lying and fiction as common ground updates

• Maier, Emar (2017). Lying and Fiction. To appear in The Oxford Handbook of Lying, edited by Jörg Meibauer.
• Maier, Emar (2017). Fictional names in psychologistic semantics. To appear (with commentaries and replies) in Theoretical Linguistics 43(1-2). doi: 10.1515/tl-2017-0001

Marga Reis
On so-called ‘embedded imperatives’ in German

Kjell Johan Sæbø
Speech acts embed: Evidence from oscillatory verba dicendi

Hubert Truckenbrodt & Frank Sode
Parentheticals and speaker anchoring

• Truckenbrodt, Hubert. 2012. Semantics of intonation. In Handbook of semantics. An international handbook of natural language meaning. Vol. 3, eds. Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner, 2039-2069. Berlin: de Gruyter.  

Dieter Wunderlich
Some biographic remarks on Speech Act Theory (shorter presentation)