The grammar and pragmatics of interrogatives and their (special) uses: talks

[93] Molnár, C. S.. A unified analysis of Hungarian ugye-utterances. International Semantics Conference; Porto, 21–23 November 2022.  

[92] *Gärtner, H.-M. and B. Gyuris. What does vajon contribute? Sinn und Bedeutung 27. Prague, 15 September 2022.  

91] *Gärtner, H.-M. Do the Uralic Languages Obey Gärtner’s Generalization? Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. University of Vienna, 21-26 August 2022.  

[90] *Gyuris, B. The bias profiles of root interrogatives in Hungarian and Estonian. Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. University of Vienna, 21-26 August 2022.  

[89] *Mády, K., B. Gyuris, H.-M. Gärtner, A. Kohári, Á. Szalontai, and U.D. Reichel. Perceived emotions in infant-directed narrative across time and speech acts. Speech Prosody 2022[link: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/speechprosody_2022/index.html] Lisbon, Portugal 23-26 May 2022.  

[88] Gärtner, H.-M. and B. Gyuris. Conjecture or Non-Intrusion? Hungarian vajon and rhetorical questions. Conference Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Language and Culture, Workshop Non-canonical interrogatives across languages: prosody, semantics, pragmatics. Estonian Literary Museum and University of Tartu, Tartu, 12-13 May 2022.  

[87] *Molnár, C. S. Kimegy a térképből… Kimegy a térképből? – A deklaratív és az ugyé-s kérdésekről a magyarban. Egy korpuszvizsgálat első eredményei.[Goes out of the map … Goes out of the map? On declarative and ugye questions in Hungarian. First results of a corpus study.] Újdonságok a szemantikai és pragmatikai kutatásokban. SZTE, Szeged, 29 April 2022.  

[86] *Gyuris, B. Nem-e. Újdonságok a szemantikai és pragmatikai kutatásokban. SZTE, Szeged, 29 April 2022.  

[85] Gärtner, H.-M. Remarks on ‘Syntax in the Treetops’ by Shigeru MiyagawaSPAGAD Lecture Series (online). Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, 29 April 2022.  

[84] *Gärtner, H.-M. and J. Michaelis. Farewell to V2 Declaratives? A Journey with Preference Semantics and Connexive Logic Crossing the Wupper. Ws ’Commitments in Grammar and Discourse (Commit22)’, 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Tübingen, 23-25 Febr. 2022.  

[83] Gärtner, H.-M. and A. Pankau. Are exam questions non-literal information questions? The challenge from Marzahn German constituent ‘n-interrogatives. Moscow HSE Pragmatics Ws. 30 Sept. -1 Oct. 2021. [online]  

[82] Gärtner, H.-M. Remarks on ‘A Case Study in the Social Dynamics of Imperatives’ by Will StarrSPAGAD Lecture Series (online). Leibniz-Center General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, 24 September 2021.  

[81] *Gyuris, B., K. Mády and C. S. Molnár. Kísérletek kérdő mondatokkal: munkamegosztás és dialektális különbségek. Invited talk, Pragmatika Kerekasztal (Pragmatics Roundtable), University of Debrecen, 10 September 2021.

[80] *Gyuris, B. and Cs. Nagy. Talán and ejsze: a comparative study of inferential particles in two dialects. 15th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. 25-26 August 2021, University of Pécs.

[79] Gärtner, H.-M. and G. Gyuris. Conjectural, Deliberative, Non-Intrusive, Reflexive, Self-Addressed or What? Why Bother? Invited talk at the Linguistik Kolloquium, Universität Bielefeld, 21 July, 2021. [online]

[78] *Gyuris, B., C. S. Molnár and K. Mády. Experimenting with the bias profiles of positive polar interrogatives in Hungarian. 4th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy (xprag.it), 8-9 July 2021, Turin. [poster, online]

[77] Gärtner, H.-M. and Þ. Eyþórsson. Functional and Formal Aspects of Mood Choice in Icelandic Conditionals. CGSW 35 Trento. 24 June 2021. [online]

[76] Gärtner, H.-M. On Commissives and their Grammatical Footprint. Invited talk, Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln. Cologne University, 2 June 2021. [online]

[75] Gärtner, H.-M. and B. Gyuris. Yiddish Interrogatives. Yiddish Reading Group; NYTK & UCL. Budapest, 10 May 2021. [online]

[74] *Gyuris, B. Hungarian nem-e interrogatives: marking the source of speaker bias. Workshop Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation. 43. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), 23-26 February, 2021, Freiburg. [online]

[73] Gyuris, B. Some remarks on bias in polar questions in Hungarian. Invited talk, SPAGAD 3 Workshop on ’Biased Questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, 4-5 February 2021. [online]

[72] Gärtner, H.-M. Some Remarks on “The Scope of Embedded Verb Second in Modern Yiddish” by Molly Diesing and Beatrice Santorini. Yiddish Reading Group; NYTI & UCL. Budapest, 18 January 2021. [online]

[71] Gyuris, B. Talán ’Perhaps’. Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, 17 December 2020. [online]

[70] Gärtner, Hans-Martin. Einige Anmerkungen zu infiniten Hauptsätzen. Invited talk, Kulturwoche des Germanistischen Instituts, ELTE, Budapest, 3 November 2020. (online)

[69] Gyuris, Beáta Az -e kérdő partikula: szótári tétel és diskurzuspragmatikai jelentés. [‘The -e question particle: dictionary entry and discourse pragmatic meaning’] Invited talk, Pragmatika Kerekasztal 2020: A lexikai pragmatika Magyarországon (2000–2020). [‘Pragmatics Roundtable 2020: Lexical pragmatics in Hungary (2000-2020)’]. SZTE, 2020. október 2. (online)

[68] Gyuris, Beáta. Polar questions, bias and the QUD: a case study of Hungarian. Graz QUD workshop — QUDs and exhaustivity: experiments, computation, and theory. Graz, 25-26 September 2020, online.

[67] *Gyuris, Beáta, Cecília Sarolta Molnár and Katalin Mády. Division of labour between polar interrogatives in Hungarian: A study in dialect semantics13th conference on Syntax, Phonology, and Language Analysis. MTA RIL Budapest, 24-26 September 2020, online. (poster)  

[66] *Gyuris, Beáta. Elfogult kérdések: szerkezet és modellezés. [Biased questions: structure and modelling.] University of Szeged, Eötvös Loránd Szakkollégium. 26 February 2020.

[65] Gärtner, Hans-Martin. Phantoms, Echoes, and Unsolved Mysteries Surrounding Hungarian Polar Interrogatives. LinG Colloquium Series. Georg-August-University Göttingen. 20 November 2019.

[64] Gärtner, Hans-Martin. Varieties of Dependent V2 and Verbal Mood: A View from Icelandic. Workshop “Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse: Syntactic and Semantic Modeling” (SPAGAD-1). Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin. 1 November 2019.  

[63] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin and Gyuris, Beáta. Phantoms, Echoes, and Unsolved Mysteries Surrounding Hungarian Polar Interrogatives. University of Cambridge, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Syntax Lab. 7 October 2019.

[62] *Gyuris, Beáta and Gärtner Hans-Martin. Aspects of question bias – evidence from Hungarian. Newcastle University, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics. 2 October 2019.

[61] *Gyuris, Beáta and Gärtner, Hans-Martin. Aspects of question bias – evidence from Hungarian. University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, “Meaning and Grammar” Research Group. 1 October 2019.

[60] Gyuris, Beáta. Biased polar questions in Hungarian. Vienna, Institut für Linguistik. (Project ‘Konjunktion und Disjunktion aus typologischer Perspektive‘.) 25 June 2019.

[59] Gärtner, Hans-Martin & Beáta Gyuris. Propozíció-tagadás a magyar -e partikulát tartalmazó kérdő mondatokban. “Diskurzus ünnepi konfigurációban.” Műhelykonferencia É. Kiss Katalin köszöntésére. Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. 28 May 2019

[58] *Molnár, Cecília Sarolta. The “bias profiles” of Hungarian tag questions. Linguistics Prague, 25-27 April 2019.

[57] *Gyuris, Beáta. A talán diskurzuspartikula a kérdésekben. Újdonságok a szemantikai és pragmatikai kutatásokban 2019. Szeged, 12 April 2019.  

[56] Gärtner, Hans-Martin. Varieties of Dependent V2 and Verbal Mood: A View from Icelandic.

(i) “Conversazioni Linguistiche.” Centro di Alti Studi Umanistici (CeASUm). Trento University. 17 May 2019.

*(ii) Logik und Semantik Kolloquium (LoSe). Department of Linguistics. Frankfurt/M. University. 14 June 2019.

(iii) Department of Linguistics. Vienna University. 17 June 2019.

[55] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin & Markus Steinbach. Zum Verhältnis von Satztyp- und Illokutionstypinventaren: Ein Blick of kognitive Ansätze. Annual Meeting of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik (ALP). “50 Jahre “Speech Acts” – Bilanz und Perspektiven.” Bremen University. 5. March 2019.

[54] Gyuris Beáta. Particles and questions: The view from Hungarian. Particles in German, English and beyond. Saarland University, Saarbrücken. 21-22 January 2019.  

[53] Molnár, Cecília Sarolta. Nem is olyan egyszerű, ugye. – Az ‘ugyé’-t tartalmazó mondatok formai és használati sajátosságai. [It isn’t so easy, is it? — Properties of the form and use of ugye.] MASZAT, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet. 18 December 2018.

[52] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin and Beáta Gyuris. On the Echoic Licensing of Propositional Negation in Hungarian Polar e-Interrogatives. Workshop “Recent Issues in the Syntax of Questions.” Konstanz University. 10 October 2018.

[51] Gärtner, Hans-Martin. Revisiting Infinitivals Hosting Logophors: The Case of Icelandic and Its Intricacies. Workshop on “Logophoricity and Perspectivization. Wackershofen and Stuttgart University. 4 October 2018. (invited talk)

[50] Gyuris, Beáta, Cecília Sarolta Molnár and Katalin Mády: Vélekedések, vágyak, szándékok tükröződése az eldöntendő kérdő mondatok megformálásában [Beliefs, wishes and intentions conveyed by the choice of the form of polar interrogatives]. 2018 Pragmatics Roundtable, University of Pécs, 7 September 2018. (invited talk)

[49] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin & Thórhallur Eythórsson. On Verbal Mood and Dependent V2-Clauses in Icelandic. Ars Grammatica. IDS Mannheim. 22 June 2018.

[48] *Gyuris, Beáta: Biasing Hungarian Questions: The Case of Negative Polar Interrogatives. Workshop “Meaning in Non-Canonical Questions”. University of Konstanz, 7-9 June 2018.

[47] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin: German Root Infinitivals Revisited. Workshop on “Non Canonical Imperatives.” Humboldt University Berlin. 25 May 2018. (invited talk)

[46] Gärtner, Hans-Martin & Beáta Gyuris: The Grammar and Pragmatics of Interrogatives and Their (Special) Uses. Some Introductory Remarks. Workshop Workshop “The Grammar and Pragmatics of Interrogatives and Their (Special) Uses” (organized by H.-M. Gärtner & B. Gyuris). GLOW 41 Budapest. 14 April 2018.

[45] Gyuris, Beáta: Rising declaratives and their Hungarian counterparts. K + K = 120′ Workshop Dedicated to László Kálmán and András Kornai on the occasion of their 60th birthdays. RIL HAS Budapest. 18 December 2017.  

[44] Molnár, Cecília Sarolta: Tag Question Constructions: A Contrastive Study. Workshop ‘Areal Convergence in Eastern Central European Languages and Beyond.’ Humboldt U. Berlin. 27-29 September 2017. (invited talk)  

[43] Gyuris Beáta: Bias in polar questions in the languages of Eastern Central Europe. Workshop ‘Areal Convergence in Eastern Central European Languages and Beyond.’ Humboldt U. Berlin. 27-29 September 2017. (invited talk)  

[42] Gärtner Hans-Martin — Markus Steinbach: Relating Inventories of Sentence Types and Speech Acts: A Look at Cognitive Approaches. Workshop “Questioning Speech Acts.” Konstanz University. 14-16 September 2017.  

[41] Gärtner, Hans-Martin: Did the Valkyries Maintain Individual To-Do-Lists? Some Remarks on the Grammar and Use of Adhortatives. Meeting of AvH-Partnership MTA-Bielefeld “Grammar and Pragmatics” Bielefeld University. 21 July 2017.

[40] Gyuris, Beáta: Bias in polar questions — experimental investigations on Hungarian. Meeting of AvH-Partnership MTA-Bielefeld “Grammar and Pragmatics” Bielefeld University. 18 July 2017.

[39] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin — Steinbach Markus: Cognitive Approaches to the Type-Mood-Force Nexus. Review and Preview. Dept. of General Linguistics, Szeged University. 7 July 2017.

[38] Mády, K. & U. D. Reichel: The impact of syntax and pragmatics on the prosody of dialogue acts. SimPhon Ws., Mátraháza, 2-5 July 2017.

[37] *Gyuris, Beáta: Unifying two kinds of discourse effects of the particle ugye in Hungarian. Particles and the dimensions of meaning. Radboud University Nijmegen. 29-30 June 2017.  

[36] *Molnár, Cecília Sarolta, Beáta Gyuris & Katalin Mády: Evidential bias in Hungarian polar question forms — an experimental study. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian. RIL HAS. 29-30 June 2017.  

[35] *Molnár, Cecília Sarolta, Beáta Gyuris & Katalin Mády: Evidential bias and polar questions — the division of labour in Hungarian. XPrag 2017. Universität zu Köln. 21-23 June 2017. (poster)  

[34] Gärtner Hans-Martin: On the absence of (German) infinitival polar interrogatives in root environments. Lund-Potsdam-Budapest Colloquium. Lund University. 15-16 June 2017. (invited talk)  

[33] Gyuris, Beáta: Bias in polar questions — the case of ugye. Lund-Potsdam-Budapest Colloquium. Lund University. 15-16 June 2017. (invited talk)  

[32] Gärtner, Hans-Martin: Varieties of Dependent V2 and Verbal Mood: A View from Icelandic. Dritter Internationaler Workshop zur Verbzweit-Stellung. Wuppertal University. 9 June 2017. (invited talk)

[31] Gärtner, Hans-Martin: Syntax and Speech Acts. Do Frameworks Matter? Workshop ‘Speech Acts: Meanings, Uses, Syntactic and Prosodic Realizations’. ZAS, Berlin. 29-31 May 2017.  

[30] Gärtner, H.-M.: Challenges of Analyzing Dialog and Anti-Intentionalist Alignment Approaches. Introductory remarks at the Workshop ‘Speech Acts: Meanings, Uses, Syntactic and Prosodic Realizations’. ZAS, Berlin. 29-31 May 2017.  

[29] Mády, Katalin, Uwe Reichel, Beáta Gyuris & Hans-Martin Gärtner: Prosody of dialogue acts. Challenges in analysis and processing of spontaneous speech workshop. Budapest, RIL HAS. 16 May 2017.  

[28] Molnár, Cecília Sarolta: A kérdő mondatok használatának tanulmányozása kísérleti pragmatikai módszerekkel. Pragmatika Kerekasztal. MTA NYTI. 2017. május 12.  

[27] *Molnár, Cecília Sarolta: Még nem unalmas, ugye? Még egyszer az ugye partikula kérdőmondati használatairól.  Újdonságok a szemantikai és pragmatikai kutatásokban konferencia. Szegedi Tudományegyetem. 28 April 2017.  

[26] Gärtner, Hans-Martin, Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner: Embedded Speech Acts and Implicature. Handbook Meeting. ZAS Berlin. 8 April 2017. (invited talk)  

[25] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin: Some Varieties of “Embedded V2.” Workshop on Scandinavian Syntax. University of the Faroe Islands at Tórshavn. 21 February 2017.  

[24] Gärtner, Hans-Martin: ‘On the Absence of (German) Infinitival Polar Interrogatives in Root Environments’. Mini-Workshop on “Discourse Particles in the Context of Current Linguistic Resarch.” Konstanz University. 30 January 2017. (invited talk)  

[23] Molnár, Cecília Sarolta: ‘Nem is olyan egyszerű, ugye?’. ‘Beszédkutatás’ Conference. RIL HAS. 17-18 October 2016, Budapest.  

[22] Reichel, U. D. & Mády, K.: You talking to me? Hozzám beszélsz? ‘Beszédkutatás’ Conference. RIL HAS, Budapest, 17-18 October 2016.  

[21] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin: ‘On the Absence of (German) Infinitival Polar Interrogatives in Root Environments’. Workshop on “Fragments”. Saarbrücken (Germany). 13-14 October 2016.  

[20] Mády, Katalin & Reichel, Uwe D. (2016): How to distinguish between self- and other-directed wh-questions? 12. Tagung Phonetik Und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum. Munich, 12-14 October 2016 (poster).  

[19] Gyuris, Beáta: ‘Some further remarks on the form and interpretation of polar interrogatives in Hungarian’. Bielefeld-Budapest Humboldt Workshop, Bielefeld, 10-11 October 2016.  

[18] Molnár, Cecília Sarolta: ‘Hungarian yes/no questions. First steps of a pragmatic experiment.’ Bielefeld–Budapest Humboldt Workshop. Bielefeld, 10-11 October 2016.  

[17] Gärtner, Hans-Martin: ‘On the Absence of (German) Infinitival Polar Interrogatives in Root Environments’. Bielefeld-Budapest Humboldt Workshop, Bielefeld, 10-11 October 2016.

[16] Mády, K. & Reichel, U. D.: How to distinguish between self- and other-directed wh-questions? Bielefeld-Budapest Humboldt Workshop, Bielefeld, 10-11 October 2016.  

[15] Gyuris, Beáta: ‘The semantics and pragmatics of polar interrogatives in Hungarian’. Evening lecture, Göttingen Spirit Summer School on Complex Clauses. Göttingen, 11 August 2016. (invited talk)

[14] Gärtner, Hans-Martin: ‘Anmerkungen zur Interaktion von Verbmodus und V2-Deklarativa’. 2. Internationaler Workshop zur Verbzweit-Stellung. Bergische Universität Wuppertal 29. – 31. Juli 2016 (invited talk)

[13] Gärtner, Hans-Martin and Gyuris, Beáta: ‘Some remarks on clausal complementation.’ Invited lecture, Institut für Linguistik, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt. 7 July 2016. (invited talk)

[12] Gärtner Hans-Martin: ‘On Dependent V2-Clauses and the Rich Agreement Hypothesis’. Budapest–Potsdam–Lund Linguistics Colloquium . RIL-HAS Budapest, 16 June 2016. (invited talk)

[11] Gärtner Hans-Martin: On the Role of Verbal Mood in Licensing Dependent V2 Clauses. Talk, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism. University of Stockholmi. 7 June 2016. (invited talk)

[10] *Gärtner Hans-Martin: Did the Valkyries Maintain Individual To-Do-Lists? Some Remarks on the Grammar and Use of Adhortatives. Talk at the ‘22nd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference‘. University of Iceland, Reykjavík. 20-22 May 2016.

[9] Gärtner Hans-Martin: On Infinitival Polar Interrogatives and their Absence in (German) Root Environments. Invited lecture at the conference  ‘Trends in Linguistics’, honoring Manfred Krifka. ZAS Berlin. 29 April 2016. (invited talk)

[8] *Gyuris, Beáta: A tagadószót tartalmazó eldöntendő kérdő mondatok jelentéséhez. Talk at ‘Újdonságok a szemantikai és pragmatikai kutatásokban‘. Szeged, SZTE, 22 April 2016.

[7] *Molnár Cecília Sarolta: Ugye melyik szabály alól ne találnánk kivételt? Talk at ‘Újdonságok a szemantikai és pragmatikai kutatásokban‘. Szeged, SZTE, 22 April 2016.

[6] Gärtner, Hans-Martin and Gyuris, Beáta: On delimiting the space of bias profiles for polar interrogatives. Talk given at the ‘Linguistik Kolloquium'[link: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jmichaelis/cgi/index.php], Universität Bielefeld. Bielefeld, 13 April, 2016.

[5] *Gärtner Hans-Martin [with Jens Michaelis]. The Disjunction-Conditional- Conundrum: No Escape for Assertion Theorists? Talk at the Workshop “Rethinking Verb Second: Assessing the Theory and Data”. University of Cambridge, 23 March 2016.

[4] Gärtner Hans-Martin On the Role of Verbal Mood in Licensing Dependent V2 Clauses. Talk at the Workshop
“Morphological Effects on Word Order from a Typological and a Diachronic Perspective” at DGfS 38. Konstanz. 25 February 2016.

[3] *Gyuris, Beáta: On two types of polar interrogatives in Hungarian and their interaction with inside and outside negation. Talk given at DGfS 26, workshop “The grammatical realization of polarity. Theoretical and experimental approaches”. Universität Konstanz, 24-26 February, 2016.

[2] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin and Gyuris, Beáta: On delimiting the space of bias profiles for polar interrogatives. Talk given at the XPrag.de-Workshop “Questions, Answers, and Negation”. Berlin, ZAS, 20-22 January, 2016.  

[1] *Gärtner, Hans-Martin and Gyuris, Beáta: On bias profiles for polar interrogatives. Talk given at the Roundtable of Hungarian Semanticists (MASZAT), HAS RIL, 29 October 2015.