Workshop 12: Marginal grammar at the semantics-pragmatics interface

Rita Finkbeiner & Charlotte Eisenrauch (U Mainz)

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

13:45 – 14:15

Charlotte Eisenrauch, Rita Finkbeiner (University of Mainz)

Marginal Grammar at the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface. Perspectives and Challenges

14:15 – 15:15

Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg)

Minor Clause Types in the Context of Major Clause Types: Structure, Function, and Typology

15:15 – 15:45

Hans-Martin Gärtner (HUN-REN Budapest)

On the Relevance of Infant Pointing for Distinguishing Major from Minor Sentence Types

15:45 – 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 – 17:00

Kalle Glauch (University of Bochum)

The Meaning of Wh-Exclamatives: An Empirical Investigation

17:00 – 17:30

Laura Scholübbers (University of Potsdam)

A Corpus Study on Syntactically Incomplete Sentences in Newspapers – and What They Can Tell Us about the Period

17:30 – 18:00

Charlotte Eisenrauch (University of Mainz)

On the Relation between Speech Act Types and Marginal Phenomena on Signs in Public Spaces

Thursday, March 06, 2025

09:00 – 09:30

Andrew Weir (University of Trondheim) & Liliane Haegeman (University of Ghent)

Subject Omission in English. Arguments against Full Unification of the Spoken and ‘Abbreviated’ Written Varieties

09:30 – 10:00

Antonios Tsiknakis (University of Wuppertal)

V3 Clauses in “Kiezdeutsch” – a Com-Sit Bounded Lexicalist Analysis

10:00 – 10:30

Nicholas Catasso (University of Wuppertal)

Violation or Non-Core Option? Verb-Third in Spoken German as a Marginal-Grammatical Phenomenon