Inquisitive Semantics: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Explorations
Time: Spring 2010, Mondays 2.30 - 5.15. Lecturer: Floris Roelofsen |
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Topic | Reading | Optional reading |
Week 1
1/25
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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
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Inquisitive semantics and pragmatics (slides) |
GR-09b sections 4-6 |
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Week 3
2/8
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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)
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Attentive might in inquisitive semantics |
CGR-10 |
Zimmermann-00 |
Week 5 2/22 |
Attentive might in inquisitive pragmatics |
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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 |
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Spring break |
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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 |
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Week 12 4/21 (WED) |
More radical inquisitive semantics Alternatives and counterfactuals |
Kratzer-Shimoyama-01 |
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Week 13 4/26 |
Rise-fall-rise and inquisitive semantics Noah Constant Questions in Yudja Suzi Lima Modality and evidentiality Aynat Rubinstein |
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Week 14 5/3 |
Finale |
Potential additional topics
- 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
Assignments and grading
- Mid-term paper
Length: 5-10 pages
Due: March 22
Weight: 30% - Presentation
Length: depending on total number of presentations
Topic: either your own paper-in-progress, or related work
Date: 4/21 or 4/26
Weight: 20% - Final paper
Length: 10-20 pages
Due: May 15
Weight: 50%