<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I would like to put an invitation for the following talk on PLing: </div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Title: Q-Particles in Alternative Questions</span></div><div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Speaker: Erlinde Meertens (University of Konstanz)</div><div><br></div><div>Time and date: Monday 19.03.2018 18:00, Seminarraum 2 </div><div><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Abstract: In languages like Turkish and Sinhala alternative questions are formed by attaching a particular morpheme — called 'Q(uestion)-particle' — to each of the disjuncts. This talk is concerned with the semantic contribution of these Q-particles in plain polar questions. I argue they are focus markers and show how their presence in each disjunct in alternative questions determines alternative question meaning.</span>

<br></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you and best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Izabela Jordanoska</div></div>