[徵稿] DGfS 2027: Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope
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Workshop at DGfS 2027: Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope
Date: 02-Mar-2027 - 05-Mar-2027
Location: Jena, Germany
Contact Email: ncq.workshop2027@gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Submission Deadline: 15-Jul-2026
Call for papers: "Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope", workshop at
the 49th annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), (Lang-AG)
Organizers: Ebrar Beinci, Timo Buchholz, Robin Edds, James Griffiths, Paula
Menéndez Benito (Universität Tübingen), Ilaria Frana (University of Enna
Kore)
Non-canonical questions (NCQs) override the default settings associated with
ordinary information-seeking questions (Farkas 2022, to appear). Canonical
questions present an open issue, signal that the speaker does not know how to
resolve it, and that she assumes that the addressee can (and will) provide an
answer.′Instead, rhetorical questions (Is the Pope Catholic?) can raise
already solved issues. Biased questions (Aren’t you hungry?) signal that the
speaker favors one of the answers and is thus not fully ignorant. Conjectural
questions (Where could the key be?) override the addressee’s knowledge
assumption. Probing questions (He does WHAT for a living?) heighten the
expectation that the addressee can provide an informative answer, and echo-
questions (She loves auteur cinema?!) indicate the need to resolve an issue in
the conversation itself while suspending acceptance of the preceding move.
In recent years, a substantial body of work on NCQs has emerged (see, e.g.,
Eckardt et al to appear, Trinh et al. 2025, Trotzke 2023). Some of the key
issues addressed in this research are:
1. How should the discourse properties of NCQs be modelled?
2. How do the formal (morphosyntax, prosody) properties of NCQs impact on
their pragmatic profile?
3. How do NCQs interact with other linguistic devices that switch default
conversational parameters (e.g., evidential or mirative markers)?
This workshop aims to bring together researchers that investigate these and
related issues. A focal point of the workshop will be micro-variation in the
form-function correspondence, also across languages, dialects, and registers.
This microscopic perspective is crucial for developing fine-grained responses
to the questions in (1-3). For instance, the syntactic position of the verb of
'wohl' questions in German has been shown to subtly impact their discourse
effect (Eckardt 2020). Similarly, the difference between information-seeking
wh-in-situ questions and mishearing and indignant wh-echo questions was found
to consist mostly of gradient differences in duration and pitch alignment and
scaling in production (Repp & Rosin 2015) that interact with word order to
achieve recognition above chance in perception (Biezma et al. 2021).
We invite contributions for talks of 20(+10) minutes on empirical or
theoretical projects investigating how such small variations in form may lead
to different pragmatic uses, and how different methodologies can bring out
this variation. We are especially interested in results arising from
linguistic varieties that are underrepresented in the previous literature.
Contributions from doctoral students and early career researchers are
particularly welcome.
Please note that a speaker at DGfS 2027 may be presenting author only on a
single contribution, but may be co-author on several presentations at the
conference.
For evaluation, initial abstracts must be anonymous and should not exceed 2
pages of text (A4, minimum font size 12pt, 2.5 cm margins), including figures,
examples and references. Be aware that for the official book of abstracts of
the DGfS, after acceptance you will be asked to submit a final version of the
abstract where everything (including references) has to fit on a single page.
Please send your anonymous abstract as a pdf via mail to ncq.workshop2027@
gmail.com. In the email, please provide your own name as well as those of any
contributors and indicate who of you will be presenting at the workshop.
For further information, please visit https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455.
Important Dates:
Deadline for initial abstract submission: July 15, 2026
Notification: August 31, 2026
Deadline for final abstract submission after acceptance: November 15, 2026
Workshop time and place: March 2-5 2027, University of Jena (at the 49th
annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS))
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