Wednesday, February 23
| 13:45-14:15 | Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus, Ingo Reich (Saarland University) Discourse obligates! – An introduction |
| 14:15-14:45 | Swantje Tönnis (Stuttgart University) Cleft sentences reduce information density in discourse |
| 14:45-15:15 | Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Michael Richter (Leipzig University), Roeland van Hout (Radboud University) Information theory and German intensifiers |
| 15:15-15:45 | Radim Lacina (University of Potsdam), Nicole Gotzner (University of Potsdam), Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh) Alternatives in broad-scope focus: Testing Rooth’s theory on VP-constituents |
| 16:30-17:00 | Maja Linke, Michael Ramscar (University of Tübingen) How communicative constraints shape the structure of lexical distributions |
| 17:00-18:00 | Invited Talk: Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh) What’s at issue? What’s the point? |
Thursday, February 24
| 09:00-09:30 | Markus Bader, Yvonne Portele (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) Producing referential expressions: No need to invoke information theory |
| 09:30-10:00 | Vinicius Macuch (Osnabrück University/ZAS), E Jamieson (University of Southampton) Interpreting negated polar questions and tracking beliefs in online discourse processing |
| 10:00-10:30 | Annemarie Verkerk, Tania Avgustinova, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Katrin Menzel, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Luigi Talamo (Saarland University) Information status investigated using surprisal: differences across syntactic roles and referential expressions in European languages |