Non-canonical questions at the syntax-prosody interface

12 November

14:10-14:15 Welcome, Agnès Celle & Maud Pélissier

14:15-15:15 Keynotetalk Nicole Dehé, University of Konstanz
Prosodic and syntactic cues to rhetorical meaning
Chair: Cristel Portes, Aix-Marseille Université, LPL

15:15-16:00 Matteo Greco, Center for Neurocognition, Epistemology and Theoretical Syntax, IUSS Scuola Universitaria Superiore, PaviaSurprise
Negation (Sneg) sentences: intonational clues for a syntactic analysis
Chair: CristelPortes, Aix-Marseille Université, LPL

16:00-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:00 Carolina Gonzalez and Lara Reglero, Florida State University
Intonation correlates in Spanish wh-in situ questions: Information, repetition and surprise
Chair: Lucia Tovena, Université de Paris, LLF

17:00-17:45 Aitor Lizardi Ituarte, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)
Discourse particles under the scope of force operators –the case of Basque ba
Chair: Lucia Tovena, Université de Paris, LLF

13 November

9:30-10:15 Duk-Ho An, Konkuk University, South Korea
Clause Types, Intonation, and Stranded Embedded Clauses
Chair: Eva-Liina Asu, University of Tartu

10:15-11:00 Vincenzo Damiazzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Prosodic Analysis of Rhetorical Questions in the German Parliament
Chair: Eva-Liina Asu, University of Tartu

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:00 Bénédicte Guillaume, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS UMR 7320 Bases Corpus Langage
The expression of surprise and other unexpected emotions in the English tag questions.
Chair: Agnès Celle, Université de Paris, LLF

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Keynotetalk Cristel Portes, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS UMR 7309 Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Intonation meaning in question(s): the case of some French rising-falling tunes
Chair: Nicole Dehé, University of Konstanz

14:00-14:45 Eva Liina Asu, Heete Sahkai, Pärtel Lippus & Katrin Leppik, University of Tartu
The prosody of surprise questions in Estonian
Chair: Nicole Dehé, University of Konstanz

14:45-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:45 Johannes Heim, Universität Greifswald
Rising Intonation in English Declarative Questions
Chair: Carolina Gonzalez, Florida State University

15:45-16:30 Christina Tortora and Jason Bishop, City University of New York
What-marked Yes-No questions in New York City English
Chair: Carolina Gonzalez, Florida State University

16:30-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-17:00 Concluding remarks and perspectives, Agnès Celle & Maud Pélissier