Semantics and Pragmatics: the Inquisitive Turn
Place: University of Amsterdam, OMHP A.118D |
Date |
Topic | Reading | Optional reading |
Week 1
8/9
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General course intro: from truth-conditions to propositions as proposals (slides) Basic intro to inquisitive semantics (slides) |
GR-10-notes ABD-07 |
Groe-99 Masc-09-first-part GS-99 |
Week 2
15/9
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Inquisitive semantics (restricted, support-based) |
GR-09 |
Groe-09 |
Week 3
22/9
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Inquisitive logic |
CR-10-jpl |
CR-09-tark |
Week 4
29/9
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Inquisitive logic Philosophical foundations of inquisitive pragmatics |
CR-10-jpl Gamut-91 GR-09 | Ciardelli-09a |
Week 5 6/10 |
Formalization of inquisitive pragmatics Computing compliance (website) |
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CCGR-09-lori |
Week 6 13/10 |
Inquisitive implicatures in alternative questions Beyond compliance |
GR-09 Dustin-09 GR-09reply |
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Week 7 20/10 |
First order semantics (slides) Focus, congruence, and exhaustification (slides) |
Ciardelli-09b |
chapter 6 Balogh-09 chapters 2-4 |
Break (midterm paper due Nov 1) |
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Week 8 3/11 |
Attentive content |
CGR-10 |
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Week 11 10/11 |
Attentive pragmatics Disjunctive questions, intonation, and highlighting |
CGR-10 RvG-10 |
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Week 10 17/11 |
Radical inquisitive semantics |
GR-10 |
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Week 9 24/11 |
Radical inquisitive semantics |
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Week 12 1/12 |
An algebraic perspective on inquisitive semantics Quality implications |
GR-10b |
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Week 13 8/12 |
Project presentations: 1. Floor 2. Kelly 3. Morgan |
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Week 14 17/12 |
Project presentations: 1. Bruno 2. Jelle 3. Kasper and Maya |
Potential additional topics
- First-order inquisitive logic: Ciardelli-09, Sano-10 (in progress).
- Questions in Yukatek Maya: Anderbois-10
- Sluicing: Anderbois-10salt
- Alternative questions: Roelofsen and van Gool-09, Pruitt and Roelofsen-10 (in progress).
- Unconditionals: Rawlins, Kaufmann.
- Hypothetical information exchange: supposition, modal subordination, conditional questions, counterfactuals.
- 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: Ginzburg, 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: Nov 1
Weight: 30% - Presentation
Length: depending on total number of presentations
Topic: either your own paper-in-progress, or related work
Date: Dec 8 or Dec 15
Weight: 20% - Final paper
Length: 10-20 pages
Due: Dec 20
Weight: 50%