Project Details
Projekt
Clarifying the Common Ground: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of the Form and Pragmatic Function of Reprise Questions and Reprise Fragments (B05)
Subject Area
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Term
since 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 538184825
Although there is general agreement that reprise questions and fragments trigger non-default common ground updates, there is no consensus about the precise nature of these updates, how they are triggered, and if/how the pragmatic function of reprise questions is connected to their exceptional morpho-syntactic form. This project broadens and sharpens the empirical picture by undertaking a cross-linguistic comparative study of the morphosyntax and prosody of reprise questions/fragments in English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, using acceptability judgment experiments and prosodic production and perception experiments. This enriched dataset will be utilized to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of current competing analyses.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Project Head
Professor James Griffiths, Ph.D.
