We will first discuss some of the theoretical foundations of inquisitive semantics and pragmatics, and then explore several empirical domains. We will look at the interpretation of disjunction, questions, and existentials in various languages, in interaction with modality, conditionals, and focus. We will also consider evidentials, and the semantic contribution of certain prosodic features.

Date	Topic	Reading	Optional reading
Week 1 1/25	Intro to inquisitive semantics (slides) From truth- and answerhood-conditions to propositions as proposals From partitions to possibilities	GR-09a sections 1-3 GR-10-notes Masc-09-first-part	CR-09-jpl Groe-09 Groe-99 Masc-09
Week 2 2/1	Inquisitive semantics and pragmatics (slides)	GR-09b sections 4-6
Week 3 2/8	Inquisitive implicatures (slides) Focus, congruence, and exhaustification (slides) Computing compliance (slides) (website)	GR-09b sections 7	Balogh-09 chapters 2-4 CCGR-09-lori CR-09-jpl
Week 4 2/16 (TUE)	Attentive might in inquisitive semantics	CGR-10	Zimmermann-00
Week 5 2/22	Attentive might in inquisitive pragmatics	CGR-10
Week 6 3/1	Disjunction, intonation, and highlighting (slides) Joint presentation with Kathryn Pruitt	PR-10	Pruitt-07, RvG-10  Aloni-Egre-de-Jager-09, Schaffer-07
Week 7 3/8	Location: Bartlett 125 Inner negation polar questions Martin Walkow Polar questions in Finnish  Anisa Schardl Seminar ends at 4:25, job-talk at 4:30
	Spring break
Week 8 3/22	Location: Bartlett 125 Evidentials in Cheyenne Sarah Murray (Rutgers) Seminar ends at 4:25, job-talk at 4:30	Murray-09a	Murray-09b
Week 11 3/29	Questions in Yukatek Maya Scott Anderbois (UCSC)	Anderbois-10a	Anderbois-10b
Week 10 4/5	Wh-questions in Tlingit Seth Cable	Cable-08 Jayaseelan-01 Jayaseelan-08	Cable-10
Week 9 4/12	Radical inquisitive semantics	GR-10
Week 12 4/21 (WED)	More radical inquisitive semantics  Alternatives and counterfactuals	GR-10 Alonso-Ovalle-06,  chapters 1-2	Kratzer-Shimoyama-01
Week 13 4/26	Rise-fall-rise and inquisitive semantics Noah Constant   Questions in Yudja Suzi Lima Modality and evidentiality Aynat Rubinstein
Week 14 5/3	Finale

• Inquisitive logic: Mascarenhas, Sano, Ciardelli, Roelofsen.
• First-order case: Ciardelli-09a, chapter 6, and Ciardelli-09b.
• Hypothetical information exchange: supposition, modal subordination, conditional questions, counterfactuals.
• Unconditionals: Rawlins, Kaufmann.
• Inquisitiveness cross-linguistically: Haspelmath-01, Bhatt-00
• Questions and indefinites in dynamic semantics: Haida.
• Intervention effects: Beck, Kim, Pesetsky, Haida, Cable.
• Question-based models of discourse: Roberts, Büring.
• Acquisition of disjunctive questions in Japanese and Mandarin: Akagi.
• Exhausitivity marking in Hungarian: Balogh-09, ch.4,5 

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