November 24, 2020 Wataru Uegaki (Edinburgh), Maribel Romero (Konstanz), and Floris Roelofsen (Amsterdam) have received funding from the AHRC and DFG for a large international project entitled "A cross-linguistic investigation of meaning-driven combinatorial restrictions in clausal embedding". The project will involve two Postdoc positions and will start early 2021. November 23, 2020 Gianluca Grilletti has successfully defended his dissertation and is now Dr. Grilletti! November 12, 2020 Thom van Gessel, who will defend his dissertation later this month, has accepted a three year postdoc position in the research team of Reinhard Muskens! September 19, 2020 Floris Roelofsen gives an invited talk at the Asking and Answering workshop in Greifswald. September 17, 2020 Ivano Ciardelli gives an invited talk at the Asking and Answering workshop in Greifswald. September 3, 2020 Matthijs Westera, who finished his PhD in the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam in 2017 and has been a Postdoc with Gemma Boleda in Barcelona since then, has accepted an Assistant Professor position at Leiden University! September 2-5, 2020 Many inquisitive semantics related talks at Sinn und Bedeutung this year: - Thom van Gessel and Alexandre Cremers - Émile Enguehard - Dominique Blok and Jordan Chark - Daniel Goodhue, Jad Wehbe, Valentine Hacquard & Jeffrey Lidz - Angelika Kiss & Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo August 20, 2020 Thom van Gessel and Gianluca Grilletti submitted their dissertations to their respective doctorate committees! The defences are planned in November. They are both starting as a Postdoc in Amsterdam in September. August 17-20, 2020 Many inquisitive semantics related talks at SALT this year: - Hana Kalpak - Morwenna Hoeks - Nadine Theiler - Sunwoo Jeong - Paolo Santorio - Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen - Floris Roelofsen and Wataru Uegaki June 18, 2020 Morgan Moyer and Kristen Syrett published a survey paper on the semantics of questions in WIREs Cognitive Science. June 16, 2020 Shinya Okano posted a paper presenting an inquisitive semantics analysis of the German discourse particle wohl. June 9, 2020 Floris Roelofsen and Wataru Uegaki posted a new handout, Searching for a universal constraint on the possible denotations of clause-embedding predicates, which will be presented at SALT in August 2020. Comments welcome! June 3, 2020 Ivano Ciardelli's paper Indicative Conditionals and Graded Information has appeared in the Journal of Philosophical Logic. April 24, 2020 Nick Bezhanishvili, Gianluca Grilletti, and Davide Emilio Quadrellaro submitted a new paper entitled An Algebraic Approach to Inquisitive and DNA-Logics. April 20, 2020 A paper by Josh Dever and Henry Ian Schiller entitled This Paper Might Change Your Mind has been accepted for publication in Nous. It adopts the inquisitive/attentional perspective on epistemic modals in order to shed new light on decision theoretic issues. April 3, 2020 Ivano Ciardelli and Gianluca Grilletti submitted a new paper entitled Games and cardinalities in inquisitive first-order logic. March 2, 2020 A paper by Nadine Theiler on presupposition projection by questions has been accepted for presentation at Semantics and Linguistic Theory. March 2, 2020 A paper by Floris Roelofsen and Wataru Uegaki on semantic restrictions on the possible meanings of clause embedding predicates has been accepted for presentation at Semantics and Linguistic Theory. March 2, 2020 A paper by Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen on multi-wh questions has been accepted for presentation at Semantics and Linguistic Theory. February 12, 2020 Donka Farkas posted a new paper entitled Canonical and non canonical questions on Semantics Archive. January 30, 2020 A paper by Nadine Theiler entitled Denn as a highlighting-sensitive particle has been published in Linguistics and Philosophy. January 20, 2020 A new paper by Vit Puncochar entitled A relevant logic for questions has been published in the Journal of Philosophical Logic. The paper integrates inquisitive semantics with relevance logic. December 18-20, 2019 The inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam co-organises the Amsterdam Colloquium, one of the top conferences in formal semantics and interfacing disciplines. December 18, 2019 Floris Roelofsen, Jakub Szymanik and Wataru Uegaki organize a Workshop on Semantic Universals at the Amsterdam Colloquium. December 10, 2019 A paper by Zhuoye Zhao and Alexandre Cremers entitled Testing formal pragmatics of questions through their ignorance inferences has appeared in the Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium. November 20, 2019 Thom van Gessel presents his work on two-dimensional inquisitive semantics at the University of Oslo. November 18, 2019 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Jakub Dotlacil on dynamic inquisitive semantics at Rutgers University. November 17, 2019 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Sabine Iatridou and Kees Hengeveld on Quexistentials and focus at Princeton University. November 16, 2019 Thom van Gessel presents his work on two-dimensional inquisitive semantics at the OZSW Conference. November 15, 2019 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Sabine Iatridou and Kees Hengeveld on Quexistentials and focus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. November 12, 2019 Alexandre Cremers presented joint work with Zhuoye Zhao and Floris Roelofsen on ignorance implicatures and NPI licensing in questions at the University of Graz. November 1, 2019 Floris Roelofsen's paper Semantic theories of questions has appeared in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. September 30, 2019 Dean McHugh's paper A problem for downward closure in the semantics of counterfactuals has appeared in the proceedings of the ESSLLI student session. It won the best paper award. September 28, 2019 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Jakub Dotlacil on dynamic inquisitive semantics at the Principles of Formal Semantics conference in Stockholm. September 20, 2019 Thom van Gessel presents his work on two-dimensional inquisitive semantics at Semantics and Philosophy in Warsaw. September 16, 2019 Gianluca Grilletti gives an invited talk at the Thirteenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation on generalized quantifiers in inquisitive logic. July 27, 2019 A paper by Li-Li Xie and Xiu-Yun Wu on M-fuzzifying basic inquisitive semantics has been published online in the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. June 28, 2019 Nadine Theiler has successfully defended her PhD dissertation! June 26-27, 2019 The Third InqBnB workshop takes place in Amsterdam, with lots of great speakers. June 17, 2019 A new paper by Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen on polarity particles has been accepted for publication in Semantics and Pragmatics. June 15, 2019 Nadine Theiler has accepted a 2-year Postdoc position at UConn. June 7, 2019 Jakub Dotlacil presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on dynamic inquisitive semantics at the University of Vienna. May 17, 2019 Alexandre Cremers presented joint work with Liz Coppock, Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen on modified numerals at SALT in Los Angeles. May 17, 2019 Morwenna Hoeks presented joint work with Floris Roelofsen on disjoining questions at SALT in Los Angeles. May 17, 2019 Wataru Uegaki presented new work on Japanese sentence final particles at SALT in Los Angeles. May 17, 2019 Jos Tellings presented new work on tense in inquisitive semantics at SALT in Los Angeles. April 12-13, 2019 Jakub Dotlacil presented joint work with Floris Roelofsen on dynamic inquisitive semantics at PALLMYR 12 in Paris. April 12-13, 2019 Alexandre Cremers presented work on gradable adjectives at PALLMYR 12 in Paris. April 12-13, 2019 Nadine Theiler presented work on additive particles in questions at PALLMYR 12 in Paris. March 27-28, 2019 Alexandre Cremers presented joint work with Liz Coppock, Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen on modified numerals at a workshop on the meaning of numerals in Berlin. March 21, 2019 Alexandre Cremers, Liz Coppock, Jakub Dotlacil, and Floris Roelofsen submitted a revised version of their paper Ignorance implicatures of modified numerals. March 20, 2019 An article titled Picky predicates: why believe doesn't like interrogative complements, and other puzzles by Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni has appeared in Natural Language Semantics. March 1, 2019 A survey article on Semantic Theories of Questions by Floris Roelofsen has been accepted for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. February 20, 2019 An abstract by Alexandre Cremers, Liz Coppock, Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen on modified numerals has been accepted for the poster session at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 2019 in Los Angeles. February 20, 2019 An abstract by Morwenna Hoeks and Floris Roelofsen on disjoining questions has been accepted for the poster session at Semantics and Linguistic Theory 2019 in Los Angeles. February 3, 2019 A new paper by Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen on Dynamic inquisitive semantics for the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23 has been posted. January 11, 2019 Matthijs Westera gives an invited talk at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage in Aix-en-Provence on Intonational Compliance Marking. A video of the talk is available online. December 28, 2018 A paper by Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni entitled Picky predicates: why believe doesn't like interrogative complements, and other puzzles has been accepted for publication in Natural Language Semantics. December 27, 2018 A paper by Wataru Uegaki and Floris Roelofsen entitled Do modals take propositions or sets of propositions? Evidence from Japanese darou has appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 28. December 17, 2018 Morwenna Hoeks and Floris Roelofsen present work on disjoining questions at the Semantics and Philosophy in Europe conference in Barcelona. December 14, 2018 Floris Roelofsen presented a survey of recent work on selectional restrictions of clause-embedding predicates at the First Modal Universals Workshop in Leiden. November 24, 2018 Matthijs Westera's paper Rising declaratives of the Quality-suspending kind has appeared in Glossa. November 22, 2018 The inquisitive semantics textbook has appeared. It's open access so everyone can print and read the pdf for free. The softcover version costs around 20 euros. See the OUP website. November 5, 2018 Alexandre Cremers' paper Plurality effects in an exhaustification-based theory of embedded questions has appeared online first in Natural Language Semantics! November 2, 2018 Floris Roelofsen given a colloquium at the NYU Linguistics Department on NPIs in questions. October 27, 2018 Floris Roelofsen given a talk on NPIs in questions at a workshop on Topics at the Semantics-Pragmatics interface, in honour of Donka Farkas, at UC Santa Cruz. October 24, 2018 Gianluca Grilletti's paper Disjunction and Existence Properties in Inquisitive First-Order Logic has appeared in Studia Logica! October 17, 2018 Floris Roelofsen submitted a revised version of a survey article on semantic theories of questions to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. October 17, 2018 A paper by Thom van Gessel, Alexandre Cremers and Floris Roelofsen on polarity sensitivity of question embedding has appeared in the proceedings of SALT. September 30, 2018 A paper by Alexandre Cremers, Floris Roelofsen, and Wataru Uegaki on distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe has been accepted for publication in Semantics and Pragmatics. September 7, 2018 Nadine Theiler presented new work on additive particles in wh-questions at Sinn und Bedeutung in Barcelona. September 7, 2018 Jakub Dotlacil and Floris Roelofsen presented new work on dynamic inquisitive semantics at Sinn und Bedeutung in Barcelona. September 1, 2018 Thom van Gessel, Alexandre Cremers, and Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper on polarity sensitivity of question embedding, which will appear in the Proceedings of SALT 28. September 1, 2018 The international project Searching for semantic universals in the modal domain has started. The project is coordinated by Wataru Uegaki (Leiden) and funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). More information is available on the project website: http://www.wataruuegaki.com/modal-universals August 25-30, 2018 Morwenna Hoeks, Hana Möller Kalpak, Jonathan Pesetsky, and Marvin Schmidt successfully defended their Master theses, each on topics related to inquisitive semantics. They will will each implement some minor revisions over the next couple of weeks and then post the final version of their thesis online. August 8, 2018 A paper by Thom van Gessel on Action Models in Inquisitive Logic has appeared in Synthese (open access). July 25-27, 2018 A Workshop on Inquisitive Logic takes place in Amsterdam, with several invited speakers working on inquisitive logic and closely related logics. July 16-20, 2018 Floris Roelofsen will teach a course on the Semantics of Questions at the Crete Summer School of Linguistics (Creteling 2018). July 10, 2018 A revised version of the paper Distributive ignorance inferences by Alexandre Cremers, Floris Roelofsen, and Wataru Uegaki has been submitted. July 5, 2018 A paper on declarative and interrogative complements by Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni has appeared in the Journal of Semantics. June 26, 2018 A revised version of the paper Deriving selectional restrictions of clause-embedding predicates by Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni has been submitted. June 25-27, 2018 Danny Fox (MIT) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. June 21-25, 2018 Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. June 17-23, 2018 Liz Coppock (Boston University) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. June 15, 2018 A paper by Ivano Ciardelli, Linmin Zhang and Lucas Champollion, Two switches in the theory of counterfactuals, has appeared in Linguistics and Philosophy. June 15, 2018 Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. June 11-14, 2018 Dora Mihoc (Harvard) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. June 7, 2018 Floris Roelofsen gives a colloquium at the MCMP in Munchen, on NPIs in questions. June 7-9, 2018 Alexandre Cremers presents joint work with Thom van Gessel and Floris Roelofsen on polarity sensitivity of question embedding at the Meaning in Non-canonical Questions Workshop in Konstanz. May 28-30, 2018 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. Wataru Uegaki presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on the Japanese particle darou at SALT (MIT). May 18-20, 2018 Thom van Gessel and Alexandre Cremers present joint work with Floris Roelofsen on polarity sensitivity of question embedding at SALT (MIT). April 3-10, 2018 Floris Roelofsen and Kees Hengeveld visit Sabine Iatridou at MIT to work on quexistentials. April 1 - June 30, 2018 Thom van Gessel visits Lucas Champollion at NYU to work on presuppositional inquisitive semantics. March 28, 2018 Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper, Polarity particles revisited. March 27, 2018 The paper A uniform semantics for declarative and interrogative complements by Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Semantics. The paper Disjunction and Existence Properties in Inquisitive First-Order Logic by Gianluca Grilletti has been accepted for publication in Studia Logica. March 17, 2018 Sabine Iatridou presented joint work with Kees Hengeveld and Floris Roelofsen on Quexistentials at an MIT seminar. March 16, 2018 Sabine Iatridou, Kees Hengeveld, and Floris Roelofsen have received a MISTI grant from MIT for an 18-month project on Quexistentials. March 10, 2018 Justin Bledin's paper Fatalism and the logic of unconditionals has been accepted for publication in Nous. January 25, 2018 January 25, 2018 has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Semantics. January 20, 2018 A new paper by Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen, An inquisitive perspective on modals and quantifiers, has just appeared in the Annual Review of Linguistics. January 9, 2018 Floris Roelofsen presents work on the whether puzzle at a workshop in honor of Barbara Partee. December 18-19, 2017 The second InqBnB workshop takes place in Amsterdam! December 15, 2017 Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni submitted a revised version of their paper A uniform semantics for declarative and interrogative complements. December 8, 2017 Floris Roelofsen presented some new thoughts in a talk called An inquisitive perspective on hyperintensionality at the Inquisitive Semantics Seminar in Amsterdam. December 4, 2017 Wataru Uegaki and Yasutada Sudo posted a new paper, The anti-rogativity of non-veridical preferential predicates, which will appear in the Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium 2017. December 1, 2017 The final version of the inquisitive semantics textbook is finally ready! It will be published (open access) by OUP in 2018. In terms of content the current version is stable. It still needs to be copy-edited, and we will add acknowledgments and an index. November 22, 2017 Alexandre Cremers presents work on modified numerals at Institut Jean Nicod in Paris. November 18, 2017 Alexandre Cremers, Liz Coppock, Jakub Dotlacil, and Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper, Modified numerals: Two routes to ignorance, which has been submitted for publication. November 13, 2017 Ivano Ciardelli presents joint work with Lucas Champollion and Linmin Zhang at LENLS in Japan. November 10, 2017 Alexandre Cremers, Floris Roelofsen, and Wataru Uegaki posted a new paper on Distributive ignorance implications of inquisitive and epistemic attitudes. November 10, 2017 Wataru Uegaki is presenting joint work with Floris Roelofsen on the Japanese modal particle 'darou' at the Selection Fest workshop in Berlin. November 10, 2017 Thom van Gessel presents his work on pair-list interpretations of questions with quantifiers at the PALLMYR workshop in London. November 10, 2017 Jakub Dotlacil presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on compositional dynamic inquisitive semantics at the PALLMYR workshop in London. October 20, 2017 Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni submitted a new manuscript Deriving selectional restrictions of clause-embedding predicates. October 1, 2017 Ivano Ciardelli starts a new position as an assistant professor at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU. September 27, 2017 Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni submitted the final version of their paper What's wrong with believing whether? for the proceedings of SALT. September 18, 2017 Gianluca Grilletti presents joint work with Ivano Ciardelli on an Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game for inquisitive first-order logic at TbiLLC. September 12, 2017 Ivano Ciardelli presents work on inquisitive dynamic epistemic logic at LORI. September 5, 2017 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen's paper Hurford's constraint, the semantics of disjunction, and the nature of alternatives has appeared in the current issue of Natural Language Semantics. July 24, 2017 Ivano Ciardelli presents joint work with Martin Otto on bisimulation in inquisitive modal logic at TARK. June 30, 2017 We've had a great workshop on inquisitive semantics and related topics this week in Broek in Waterland (near Amsterdam). June 11, 2017 Ivano Ciardelli's paper Question meaning = resolution conditions has appeared in Logic and Logical Philosophy. June 6, 2017 A paper by Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen, Division of labor in the interpretation of declaratives and interrogatives, is part of the latest issue of the Journal of Semantics. May 10, 2017 Nadine Theiler presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen and Maria Aloni on the selectional restrictions of verbs like believe and wonder at SALT. April 4, 2017 Ivano Ciardelli, Rosalie Iemhoff and Fan Yang submit a new paper on Questions and dependency in intuitionistic logic. April 3-24, 2017 Vit Puncochar (Prague) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. March 23, 2017 Matthijs Westera defends his PhD thesis, followed by a workshop on intonation and pragmatics including talks by Craige Roberts (NYU/Rutgers), Michael Wagner (McGill), and Jörg Peters (Oldenburg). March 16, 2017 A paper on Hurford's constraint by Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen has appeared OnlineFirst in Natural Language Semantics. March 14, 2017 March 10, 2017 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled How the symmetry problem solves the symmetry problem (abstract, slides), at a workshop on Information Structuring in Discourse in Saarbrücken. March 9, 2017 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled Rise-fall-rise intonation and secondary QUDs (slides), at a workshop on Secondary information and its encoding in Saarbrücken. March 3, 2017 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled Explaining at-issueness contrasts between questions and assertions (abstract, slides) at a workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Presuppositions in Genoa. February 14, 2017 February 2, 2017 Liz Coppock, Ivano Ciardelli, and Floris Roelofsen posted the final version of their paper on modified numerals for the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. February 1, 2017 Wataru Uegaki and Floris Roelofsen posted the final version of their paper on the distributive ignorance puzzle for the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. January 21, 2017 A paper by Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen entitled Division of labor in the interpretation of declaratives and interrogatives has appeared in the Journal of Semantics. January 12, 2017 Floris Roelofsen gives a colloquium talk entitled What's wrong with wonder that and believe whether? in Konstanz. January 9, 2017 A paper by Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen on Hurford's constraint has been accepted for publication in Natural Language Semantics. Here is the final version of the paper. January 5, 2017 Matthijs Westera posted a new paper, An attention-based explanation for some exhaustivity operators, which will appear in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. December 21, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen submitted a revised version of their paper on Hurford's constraint. December 16, 2016 Floris Roelofsen presents new work on epistemic might at the Situations, Information, and Semantic Content workshop in Munich. December 1, 2016 Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni submitted a new paper on declarative and interrogative complements. October 25, 2016 The paper Composing alternatives by Ivano Ciardelli, Floris Roelofsen, and Nadine Theiler has been published Online First in Linguistics and Philosophy. October 19, 2016 A number of inquisitive semantics related papers have appeared in the Proceedings of SALT 26: one by Ivano Ciardelli on conditionals, another one by Ivano Ciardelli, Lucas Champollion and Linmin Zhang also on conditionals, one by Liz Coppock on superlative modifiers, and one by Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen and Maria Aloni on embedded questions. October 3, 2016 A paper by Ivano Ciardelli on questions in logic has been published online in Synthese. September 19, 2016 Matthijs Westera presents work on Exhaustivity in terms of Attentional Quantity at the Logic and Language in Conversation workshop in Utrecht. September 10, 2016 Wataru Uegaki presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on the ignorance implication of inquisitive predicates at a workshop on exhaustivity at MIT. September 10, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli gives an invited talk at the Poznan Reasoning Week on questions as information types. The paper that the talk is based on has been accepted for publication in Synthese. September 8, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli, Floris Roelofsen, and Nadine Theiler uploaded the final version of their paper Composing alternatives, which will appear soon in Linguistics and Philosophy. September 5, 2016 Matthijs Westera presents an attention-based explanation for some exhaustivity operators at Sinn und Bedeutung. September 5, 2016 Liz Coppock, Ivano Ciardelli, and Floris Roelofsen presented work on the implicatures of modified numerals at Sinn und Bedeutung. September 4, 2016 Floris Roelofsen and Wataru Uegaki presented work on the ignorance implication of inquisitive predicates at Sinn und Bedeutung. September 1, 2016 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam for four months as a KNAW Visiting Professor. September 1, 2016 Liz Coppock (Gothenburg/Uppsala) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam for a year as a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. September 1, 2016 Thom van Gessel and Gianluca Grilletti start their PhD, and Jakub Dotlacil and Alexandre Cremers start their postdoc in the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. August 30, 2016 Nadine Theiler, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni finished their paper Truthful resolutions: a new perspective on false-answer sensitivity, which will appear in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 26). August 28, 2016 Anna Szabolcsi posted a new paper on question disjunction on lingbuzz. August 15, 2016 Liz Coppock finished her paper Superlative modifiers as modified superlatives, which will appear in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 26). August 15, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli finished his paper Lifting conditionals to inquisitive semantics, which will appear in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 26). August 15, 2016 Lucas Champollion, Ivano Ciardelli, and Linmin Zhang finished their paper Breaking de Morgan’s law in counterfactual antecedents, which will appear in the Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 26). June 21, 2016 Floris Roelofsen gives a talk on Highlighting in discourse and grammar at the University of Göttingen. June 19, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli, Floris Roelofsen, and Nadine Theiler submitted a revised version of their paper Composing alternatives. June 14, 2016 Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen submitted a revised version of their paper Division of labor in the interpretation of declaratives and interrogatives. June 13, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli and Maria Aloni present new work on Choice offering imperatives at the workshop Imperatives: Worlds and Beyond at the University of Hamburg. June 8, 2016 June 1, 2016 Kaibo Xie will join the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam as a PhD student, with a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council! May 17-25, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen visit Lucas Champollion at NYU. May 13, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli presents new work on conditionals in inquisitive semantics at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) in Austin. May 13, 2016 Lucas Champollion, Ivano Ciardelli, and Linmin Zhang present new work on De Morgan's law in the antecedent of counterfactual conditionals at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) in Austin. May 13, 2016 Nadine Theiler presents new joint work with Floris Roelofsen and Maria Aloni on interrogative and declarative complements at Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) in Austin. May 10, 2016 Floris Roelofsen, Michele Herbstritt, and Maria Aloni finished their paper on the *whether puzzle, which will appear in a volume on Questions in Discourse, edited by Edgar Onea, Klaus von Heusinger, and Malte Zimmermann. May 1, 2016 As of September 1, 2016, the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam will be strengthened by two PhD students, Thom van Gessel (Amsterdam) and Gianluca Griletti (Pisa), and two Postdocs, Alexandre Cremers (Paris) and Jakub Dotlacil (Groningen)! April 15, 2016 Donka Farkas presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on the division of labor between semantics and conventions of use in a DIP Colloquium in Amsterdam. April 13, 2016 Donka Farkas presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on the division of labor between semantics and conventions of use in a LUSH Colloquium in Utrecht. April 4, 2016 Sabine Frittella, Giuseppe Greco, Alessandra Palmigiano, and Fan Yang posted a new paper on a Structural Multi-type Sequent Calculus for Inquisitive Logic. March 11, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli defended his dissertation, Questions in logic, which contains in-depth investigations of propositional, first-order, and modal inquisitive logics. February 20, 2016 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen submitted a paper on Hurford's constraint, the semantics of disjunction, and the nature of alternatives. January 30, 2016 which will be defended on the 11th of March 2016. January 27, 2016 Floris Roelofsen submitted a new version of his paper Two alternatives for disjunction: an inquisitive reconciliation. January 20,2016 Floris Roelofsen presented a paper on highlighting in discourse and grammar at the XPrag workshop on Questions, Answers, and Negation in Berlin. December 24, 2015 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) will visit the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam as a KNAW Visiting Professor in 2016/2017. She will work on non-question uses of question words across languages. December 17, 2015 Malte Willer (University of Chicago) presents a paper on conditionals, bringing together ideas from inquisitive semantics with update semantics, at the Amsterdam Colloquium. December 17, 2015 Jeff Lin (New York University) presents a paper on the Chinese question particle ma at the Amsterdam Colloquium. December 17, 2015 Yurie Hara (City University of Hong Kong) presents a paper on disjunction in Cantonese at the Amsterdam Colloquium. December 15, 2015 Lucas Champollion presents joint work with Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen on the compositional semantics of questions in the Questions in Logic and Language workshop in Amsterdam. December 15, 2015 Nadine Theiler presents joint work with Maria Aloni and Floris Roelofsen on the semantics of embedded questions in the Questions in Logic and Language workshop in Amsterdam. December 14-15, 2015 The Inquisitive Turn project comes to an end, after five very productive years, with two workshops on questions in semantics, pragmatics, and logic. December 11, 2015 Liz Coppock presents new joint work with Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen on Implicatures of modified numerals: quality or quantity? at Utrecht University. November 16, 2015 Martin Aher and Jeroen Groenendijk posted a new set of slides on How the Deontic Issue in the Miners’ Puzzle Depends on an Epistemic Issue, which was presented earlier this year at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe. November 13, 2015 Lucas Champollion presented a new piece of joint work with Ivano Ciardelli and Linmin Zhang entitled Antecedents of counterfactuals violate de Morgan’s law at Leiden Utrecht Semantics Happenings (LUSH). November 10, 2015 Lucas Champollion (NYU) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam for six weeks. November 10, 2015 Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam for 10 days. October 22, 2015 Ivano Ciardelli, Floris Roelofsen, and Nadine Theiler submitted a paper on Alternatives in Montague grammar: compositionality, entailment, and coordination. October 15, 2015 Liz Coppock visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam for one week to work on scalar modifiers. October 15, 2015 Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper on the division of labor in the interpretation of declaratives and interrogatives for publication. September 17, 2015 Martin Aher and Jeroen Groenendijk present new work on suppositional inquisitive semantics at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe. September 17, 2015 Matthijs Westera presents new work on attentional pragmatics at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe. September 16, 2015 Hadas Kotek (McGill) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam for a week. September 3, 2015 Donka Farkas (UCSC) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam for 6 weeks as a KNAW visiting professor. August 5-10, 2015 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen teach a course on inquisitive semantics at ESSLLI 2015 in Barcelona. July 29, 2015 Michele Herbstritt, Floris Roelofsen, and Maria Aloni submitted a new paper on embedded questions. July 27, 2015 A paper by Vit Puncochar on a generalization of inquisitive semantics has been published online in the Journal of Philosophical Logic. July 16, 2015 Floris Roelofsen was interviewed on Radio 1 (16:10-22:42) about his work with Donka Farkas on polarity particle responses (yes/no), recently published in Language. July 13, 2015 Floris Roelofsen was interviewed by Kennislink on his work with Donka Farkas on answer particles like yes and no across languages, recently published in Language. June 30, 2015 There will be a course on inquisitive semantics at ESSLLI 2015 in Barcelona. June 29, 2015 Floris Roelofsen was interviewed by BNR news radio about his work with Donka Farkas on polarity particle responses (yes/no), recently published in Language. June 23, 2015 Ivano Ciardelli gives a talk on Dependency as question entailment at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Logics of Dependence and Independence. June 18, 2015 June 14, 2015 A special issue of Synthese on Logics of Questions, edited by Yacin Hamami and Floris Roelofsen, has now appeared in print. June 6, 2015 A paper by Yacin Hamami proposing a model of inquiry in conversation in inquisitive pragmatics has been published in Logique & Analyse, 228, 637–661. May 21, 2015 A paper by Benjamin Spector and Paul Egre on embedded interrogatives has appeared in a special issue of Synthese on Logics of Questions, edited by Yacin Hamami and Floris Roelofsen. May 19, 2015 Floris Roelofsen received a VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), which will support further research on inquisitive semantics over the next couple of years, focusing on compositionality and dynamics. May 7, 2015 Vít Puncochár's paper on Weak negation in inquisitive semantics has appeared in the Journal of Logic, Language, and Information. May 3, 2015 Anna Szabolcsi's paper What do quantifier particles do? has appeared in the latest issue of Linguistics and Philosophy. Anna Szabolcsi gave an invited talk at CLS on disjoining questions, comparing inquisitive semantics with partition semantics. April 20, 2015 April 16, 2015 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper on Hurford disjunctions and the nature of alternatives. April 10, 2015 An editorial introduction for a special issue of Synthese on Logics of Questions by Yacin Hamami and Floris Roelofsen has been published online first. April 9, 2015 Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper on inquisitive disjunction. March 18, 2015 Ivano Ciardelli speaks at the Algebra-Coalgebra seminar in Amsterdam about dependency as question entailment. March 10, 2015 February 20, 2015 Floris Roelofsen presented joint work with Ivano Ciardelli on Alternatives in Montague Grammar at the Constructions of Meaning workshop at Stanford. February 11, 2015 Anna Szabolcsi finished her paper on quantifier particles, which will appear in Linguistics & Philosophy. January 15, 2015 Martin Aher and Jeroen Groenendijk finished a new paper on deontic and epistemic modals, which will appear in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19. Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen finished a new paper, Alternatives in Montague Grammar, which will appear in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 19. January 8, 2015 Donka Farkas (UCSC) will be a KNAW Visiting Professor of the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam in 2015/2016. December 30, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli submitted a paper on dependency as question entailment. December 6, 2014 Master of Logic student Sarah Hiller finishes a research project on disjunctive counterfactuals in alternative and inquisitive semantics.November 21, 2014 Jeroen Groenendijk will present ongoing work with Martin Aher and Floris Roelofsen on deontic and epistemic modal in suppositional inquisitive semantics at the LEGO seminar in Amsterdam. October 30, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen speak at the Tilburg Seminar on Logic and Language on compositionality in alternative semantics and inquisitive semantics. October 28, 2014 A course on inquisitive semantics and quantification has started at the University of Amsterdam. October 27, 2014 Floris Roelofsen gives a lecture in the Logic, Language, and Computation seminar in Amsterdam on the logic of information exchange. September 29, 2014 A paper by Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen on information, issues, and attention has appeared in a Festschrift for Ede Zimmermann, edited by Daniel Gutzmann, Jan Köpping, and Cécile Meier. Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen finished a paper on suppositional inquisitive semantics for the Tbillic volume, to appear later this year. September 19, 2014 Martin Aher and Jeroen Groenendijk present a paper on deontic and epistemic modals in suppositional inquisitive semantics at the Sixth Questions in Discourse Workshop in Göttingen. September 18, 2014 Floris Roelofsen, Nadine Theiler, and Maria Aloni presented a paper on embedded interrogatives at the Sixth Questions in Discourse Workshop in Göttingen. September 16, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen present a paper on composing alternatives at Sinn und Bedeutung in Göttingen. September 15, 2014 Martin Aher and Jeroen Groenendijk present a paper on deontic and epistemic modals in suppositional inquisitive semantics at Sinn und Bedeutung in Göttingen. September 12, 2014 Anna Szabolcsi (visiting professor at the ILLC in the Fall of 2014) gave a DIP colloquium on quantifier particles. September 4, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli presents a paper on interrogative dependencies at WoLLIC in Valparaiso, Chile. August 12, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli presents a paper on the axiomatization of inquisitive epistemic logic at the ELISIEM workshop at ESSLLI in Tubingen. August 5, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli presents a paper on the axiomatization of inquisitive epistemic logic at the Advances in Modal Logic conference in Groningen. July 10, 2014 A paper by Floris Roelofsen and Donka Farkas on polarity particles has been accepted for publication in Language. July 7, 2014 Nadine Theiler defends her MSc Thesis on embedded questions in typed inquisitive semantics. July 3, 2014 Matthijs Westera gives a talk on implicature cancellation and experimental pragmatics in Duesseldorf. July 2, 2014 Matthijs Westera gives a talk on intonational meaning and cooperativity in Duesseldorf. July 2, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen give a talk about issues in epistemic change at the European Epistemology Network Meeting in Madrid. June 28, 2014 Martin Aher gives a talk on the Miner's Puzzle at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe, in Berlin. June 28, 2014 Matthijs Westera gives a talk on conversational implicatures at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe, in Berlin. June 27, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli gives a talk on question meaning at Semantics and Philosophy in Europe, in Berlin. June 5, 2014 Matthijs Westera gives a talk on intonational meaning at MIT. May 30, 2014 Matthijs Westera and Adrian Brasoveanu present a poster at SALT in New York. May 26, 2014 Matthijs Westera presents his work on intonational meaning at McGill University, Montreal. May 21-22, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, Floris Roelofsen, and Matthijs Westera all present new work at the QID Workshop in Stuttgart. May 19, 2014 A paper by Will Starr proposing an inquisitive dynamic treatment of conditionals has appeared in Philosophical Imprint. May 14, 2014 Matthijs Westera presents a poster on Grounding topic and focus in biological codes at TAL2014 in Nijmegen (paper, poster). May 12, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli presents new work on interrogative dependencies and the constructive content of inquisitive proofs at the Delft Applied Logic Seminar. (slides) May 6, 2014 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Ivano Ciardelli on inquisitive epistemic logic at the Amsterdam University College. May 6, 2014 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled Why semantics is the wastebasket at the Tilburg Research Seminar in Logic and Language. April 29, 2014 Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new version of their paper on polarity particle responses. April 28, 2014 A paper by Maria Aloni and Floris Roelofsen on indefinites in comparatives appears today in Natural Language Semantics. April 10, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli gives a LIRA talk in Amsterdam on inquisitive epistemic logic. March 28, 2014 Floris Roelofsen gives a talk at the Understanding Questions Workshop in Leiden. March 25, 2014 A paper by Adrian Brasoveanu, Karen de Clercq, Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen on Question tags and sentential negativity has been accepted for publication in Lingua. March 6, 2014A paper by Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen on inquisitive dynamic epistemic logic appears in Synthese today (springerlink). March 5, 2014 Jeroen Groenendijk gives a talk on suppositional inquisitive semantics at the KNAW Colloquium on Dependence Logic. March 5, 2014 Floris Roelofsen gives a talk on team semantics for natural language at the KNAW Colloquium on Dependence Logic. March 3, 2014 Ivano Ciardelli gives a talk on reasoning about issues at the KNAW Colloquium on Dependence Logic. February 17, 2014 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Donka Farkas on assertions, polar questions, and the land in between at a workshop on non-canonical questions in Konstanz. February 15, 2014 Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen submitted a paper on suppositional inquisitive semantics for publication. February 12, 2014 An overview article on questions by Charles Cross and Floris Roelofsen appears in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. January 21, 2014 A paper by Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen on inquisitive dynamic epistemic logic has been accepted for publication in Synthese. January 7-22, 2014 Lucas Champollion (NYU) visits the inquisitive semantics group in Amsterdam. January 10, 2014 A paper by Andrzej Wiśniewski entitled Support and sets of situations appears online first in the Journal of Logic, Language, and Information. December 31, 2013 Nadine Theiler finished her research project on a type-theoretic inquisitive semantics. December 18, 2013 At the first day of the Amsterdam Colloquium a special event took place in honor of Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof, and Frank Veltman. At this event, a Festschrift was presented to Jeroen, Martin, and Frank. The Festschrift contains 38 papers, including one by Ivano Ciardelli and Maria Aloni on imperatives, one by Floris Roelofsen about attentive might, and one by Matthijs Westera about exhaustivity. December 18, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk at a joint session of the SemDial workshop and the Amsterdam Colloquium entitled 'Attention, I'm violating a maxim!' - a unifying account of the final rise. December 19, 2013 Jeroen Groenendijk gives a talk at the Questions in Discourse workshop in Amsterdam entitled Toch and Toch?: an inquisitive semantic-pragmatic analysis. December 19, 2013 Ivano Ciardelli gives a talk at the Questions in Discourse workshop in Amsterdam entitled Questions meaning = resolution conditions. December 16, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk at the Questions in Discourse workshop in Amsterdam entitled Contrastive topic: a compositional account in terms of non-cooperativity. December 4, 2013 A paper by Maria Aloni and Floris Roelofsen on indefinites in comparatives has been accepted for publication in Natural Language Semantics. November 20, 2013 Matthijs Westera finished a paper on the final rise as signalling non-cooperativity for the proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS). November 20, 2013 Matthijs Westera finished a paper on exhaustivity effects for the proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS). November 18, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk at the University of Nijmegen about deriving exhaustivity effects as conversational implicatures. November 18, 2013 Floris Roelofsen gives a Colloquium talk at the IMS in Stuttgart on an inquisitive perspective on meaning: the case of disjunction. November 15, 2013 Jeroen Groenendijk presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on suppositional inquisitive semantics at the LeGO seminar in Amsterdam. November 6, 2013 A new paper by Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen on the semantics and logic of declaratives and interrogatives has appeared in Synthese (springerlink). October 29, 2013 A paper by Kathryn Pruitt and Floris Roelofsen on the interpretation of prosody in disjunctive questions has appeared in Linguistic Inquiry. October 28, 2013 Today is the first class of a new edition of the course Logic and Conversation at the University of Amsterdam, featuring, besides other topics in semantics and pragmatics, a series of introductory lectures on inquisitive semantics. October 28, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled Exhaustivity through the maxim of Relation at the 10th Conference on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) in Tokyo. October 25, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled Exhaustivity is a conversational implicature at Keio University, Tokyo. October 24, 2013 Ivano Ciardelli presents joint work with Floris Roelofsen on inquisitive dynamic epistemic logic at the LIRA seminar in Amsterdam. October 18, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a LEGO talk in Amsterdam entitled Grice can do it! (But he was wrong about cancellability). October 16, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a LUSH talk at the University of Utrecht entitled Exhaustivity is a conversational implicature. October 12, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled Exhaustivity implicatures and attentive content at the workshop Investigating Semantics: Empirical and philosophical approaches, held at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. October 6, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk entitled Attention, exhaustivity and non-cooperativity, at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. September 29, 2013Martin Aher from the University of Osnabrück successfully defended his PhD dissertation, Modals in Legal Language, in which he proposes a semantics for deontic modals in the framework of radical inquisitive semantics. He received the highest grade: Summa Cum Laude. September 29, 2013 Several new papers on inquisitive semantics and pragmatics by Martin Aher, Jeroen Groenendijk, Floris Roelofsen, and Matthijs Westera were presented this week at the Tenth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic, and Computation. September 26, 2013 Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen discuss inquisitive semantics with Matt Teichman in an episode of Elucidations, a University of Chicago podcast on Philosophy. September 23, 2013 An overview paper on Questions by Charles Cross and Floris Roelofsen has been accepted for publication in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. September 21, 2013 A short paper describing the core notion of meaning in inquisitive semantics by Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen has appeared in Language and Linguistics Compass 7(9), 459-476, 2013, DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12037. September 19, 2013 December 16-18 there will be a Workshop on Questions in Discourse in Amsterdam, just before the Amsterdam Colloquium. September 17, 2013 A paper by Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen on the semantics and logic of declaratives and interrogatives has been accepted for publication in Synthese. September 9, 2013 Ivano Ciardelli gives a PIIA seminar in Utrecht on Inquisitive semantics and intermediate logics. September 5, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a LIRA seminar in Amsterdam on Attention, exhaustivity and non-cooperativity. August 7, 2013 Matthijs Westera presents work on The Rise and Fall of Cooperativity at a Workshop on Discourse Coherence, Information Structure, and Implicatures, in Düsseldorf. August 5-16, 2013 Matthijs Westera presents a new paper, Attentive pragmatics: an account of exhaustivity and the final rise, at the ESSLLI student session in Düsseldorf. August 5-10, 2013 Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen give a course at ESSLLI in Düsseldorf. July 26, 2013 Matthijs Westera presents work on inquisitive pragmatics at the International Congress of Linguistics in Geneva. June 21, 2013 Matthijs Westera presents work on relevance in inquisitive pragmatics at the DETEC workshop in Tübingen. June 17, 2013 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, Floris Roelofsen, and Matthijs Westera each give a talk at the Inquisitive Logic meets Dependence Logic workshop in Amsterdam. June 11, 2013 Matthijs Westera presents new work on inquisitive pragmatics at the Semantics and Philosophy in Europe colloquium in St Petersburg. May 30, 2013 Jeroen Groenendijk presents new joint work with Floris Roelofsen on suppositional inquisitive semantics at a workshop on Logic, Questions, and Inquiry in Paris. May 20, 2013 A paper by Martin Aher on Deontic Contexts and the Interpretation of Disjunction in Legal Discourse has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne de Linguistique. April 25, 2013 A paper by Floris Roelofsen on the algebraic foundations of inquisitive semantics has been published 'online first' in Synthese. April 25, 2013 Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen will teach a course on Questions, Assertions, and Hybrids in an Inquisitive Discourse Model at ESSLLI this summer in Duesseldorf. The course website is now online. April 25, 2013 A paper by Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen on polar initiatives and polarity particle responses in an inquisitive discourse model has been accepted for publication in Langauge, subject to minor revisions. April 19, 2013 Matthijs Westera gives a talk at the University of California Santa Cruz on exhaustivity, relatedness and the final rise. April 18-19, 2013 Ivano Ciardelli and Jeroen Groenendijk present new work at a workshop on inquisitive semantics and inferential erotetic logic in Poznan, Poland. April 17, 2013 Matthijs Westera will present his new work later this Spring/Summer at DETEC in Tubingen and in SPE in St. Petersburg. April 17, 2013 A paper on positive and negative polar questions in discourse by Floris Roelofsen, Noortje Venhuizen, and Galit Weidmann Sassoon has appeared in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. April 9, 2013 Floris Roelofsen gives a talk at UCL in London. April 9, 2013 A paper by Floris Roelofsen on the algebraic foundations for the semantic treatment of inquisitive content has been accepted for publication in Synthese. March 27, 2013 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen submitted a revised version of their paper inquisitive semantics: a new notion of meaning to the Language and Linguistics Compass. March 11, 2013 Floris Roelofsen gives a talk at the Questions in Discourse European Network meeting in Berlin. February 28, 2013 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper on the semantics and logic of declaratives and interrogatives for publication. February 22, 2013 Floris Roelofsen gives a colloquium talk at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. February 20, 2013 Floris Roelofsen gives a colloquium talk at Rochester University. February 19, 2013 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Donka Farkas on polarity particles at the University of Rochester. February 13, 2013 Floris Roelofsen gives a colloquium talk at Stanford University. January 26, 2013 Matthijs Westera presents work on the semantics and pragmatics of modified numerals at the University of California Santa Cruz. January 18, 2013 Donka Farkas and Adrian Brasoveanu present joint work with Floris Roelofsen about scales of negativity at an S-circle meet at UC Santa Cruz. January 16, 2013 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Donka Farkas about polar initiatives in an inquisitive discourse model at a LUSH colloquium in Leiden. December 23, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper on inquisitive dynamic epistemic logic. December 17-18, 2012 Matthijs Westera gives four talks on inquisitive semantics, inquisitive pragmatics, scalar modifiers and dynamic inquisitive semantics at a workshop on questions and inquisitive semantics at the University of Gothenburg. December 14, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli gives a talk at NYU about the notion of meaning developed in inquisitive semantics. December 10, 2012 Floris Roelofsen posted a revised paper on the algebraic foundations of the semantics treatment of inquisitive content. November 21, 2012 Floris Roelofsen presents joint work with Donka Farkas at a colloquium of the Linguistics Department of the University of Cologne, and gives a guest lecture in Klaus von Heusinger's seminar on negation. November 15, 2012 Scott AnderBois submitted a new paper on the semantics of sluicing. November 14, 2012 The long-awaited paper by Scott AnderBois on Focus and uninformativity in Yukatek Maya questions is included in the current issue of Natural Language Semantics. November 4, 2012 Wataru Uegaki and Paul Marty (MIT) presented new work on a grammatical source of the Gettier judgment at a Symposium on 'knowledge' in Japanese, at the University of Tokyo. October 30, 2012 A new paper by Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen about inquisitive witness semantics has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic, and Computation, published by Springer. October 29, 2012 There will be a workshop on Logic, Questions, and Inquiry in Paris in the Spring of 2013. Jeroen Groenendijk will be one of the invited speakers. October 29, 2012 A new course on Logic and Conversation by Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen started today in Amsterdam. October 10, 2012 Floris Roelofsen, Noortje Venhuizen, and Galit Weidmann Sassoon posted a new paper on positive and negative polar questions in discourse, which will appear in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung. September 30, 2012 A paper on the interpretation of prosody in disjunctive questions by Kathryn Pruitt and Floris Roelofsen has been accepted for publication in Linguistic Inquiry. September 4, 2012 Matthijs Westera will present a new paper at the SemDial workshop in Paris on September 19, 2012. September 4, 2012 Floris Roelofsen will present joint work with Donka Farkas at the Questions in Discourse network meeting in Paris this Friday, September 7, and joint work with Noortje Venhuizen and Galit Weidmann Sassoon at Sinn und Bedeutung, also in Paris, this Saturday, September 8. September 1, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli and Jordy Jouby joined the inquisitive semantics research group at the ILLC in Amsterdam. July 15, 2012 Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper about polar initiatives and polarity particle responses in an inquisitive discourse model. July 5, 2012 Papers by Martin Aher, Edgar Onea, Markus Steinbach, and Wataru Uegaki, presented at the inquisitiveness workshop in December 2011, are now out in print, in a Springer LNCS volume on Logic, Language, and Meaning. June 24, 2012 Jeroen Groenendijk gives a keynote lecture at TLS in Austin, presenting joint work with Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen. June 19, 2012 Matthijs Westera presents new work at LOFT in Sevilla. June 17-22, 2012 Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen teach a course on inquisitive semantics at NASSLLI this week. The lecture notes and the course schedule are available on the course website. June 8, 2012 Donka Farkas presents new work with Floris Roelofsen at the Polarity Particle Workshop in Newcastle. June 6, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli presents new work with Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen at Trends in Logic XI. April 18, 2012 A paper by Matthijs Westera about the dynamics of compliance has been accepted for presentation at the 10th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 10) in Sevilla. April 17, 2012 Floris Roelofsen presented joint work with Donka Farkas on polar initiatives and polarity particles at a Colloquium in Nijmegen. The handout for the talk is here and the current version of the paper is here. April 2, 2012 Donka Farkas presented new joint work with Floris Roelofsen on polar initiatives and polarity particles during a Yale Linguistics Colloquium. The handout for the talk is here and the presented version of the paper is here. March 29, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli gave a talk about presuppositions in inquisitive semantics in Paris. March 12, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper, which develops an inquisitive semantics with witnesses. March 9, 2012 Jeroen Groenendijk presented joint work with Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen on an inquisitive semantics with witnesses at the Questions in Discourse workshop in Frankfurt. March 9, 2012 Martin Aher presented new work on free choice in radical inquisitive semantics at the Questions in Discourse workshop in Frankfurt. February 21, 2012 (palindrome day) Adrian Brasoveanu, Donka Farkas, and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper on n-words and sentential negation. February 17, 2012 Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper on algebraic inquisitive semantics. February 3, 2012 Adrian Brasoveanu, Donka Farkas and Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper on polarity particles and n-words, which will appear soon in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16. February 3, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen submitted a new paper: inquisitive semantics: a new notion of meaning. February 1, 2012 Ivano Ciardelli and Jeroen Groenendijk gave a talk at the IMI workshop in Paris last week about hybrid, classical, and presuppositional inquisitive semantics. December 21, 2011 Donka Farkas presented joint work with Floris Roelofsen on polarity particles during an invited talk at the Amsterdam Colloquium. December 19, 2011 Today the workshop on inquisitiveness at the Amsterdam Colloquium took place, with talks by Manfred Krifka, Robin Cooper, Jonathan Ginzburg, Martin Aher, Markus Steinbach, Edgar Onea, and Wataru Uegaki. December 16, 2011 Jeroen Groenendijk finished a new paper on erotetic languages and the inquisitive hierarchy. December 1, 2011 Jeroen Groenendijk gave a talk on erotetic languages and the inquisitive hierarchy at a workshop on Questions, Games, and Logic in Amsterdam. December 1, 2011 Floris Roelofsen gave a talk on inquisitive dynamic epistemic logic at a workshop on Questions, Games, and Logic in Amsterdam. A first version of the paper is available here. November 7, 2011 Jeroen Groenendijk gave a talk at Ohio State University, comparing inquisitive semantics and pragmatics with the logic of interrogation. November 5, 2011 Jeroen Groenendijk presented a joint paper with Floris Roelofsen on a first-order inquisitive semantics with witnesses at a workshop on the guiding role of questions in discourse and epistemology at the Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon University. November 3, 2011 Jeroen Groenendijk gave a talk at Carnegie Mellon University, comparing inquisitive semantics and pragmatics with the logic of interrogation. October 26, 2011 Jeroen Groenendijk presented a joint paper with Floris Roelofsen on a first-order inquisitive semantics with witnesses at a workshop on the logic of questions in Prague. October 25, 2011 The accepted papers for the inquisitiveness workshop at the Amsterdam Colloquium this coming December have been posted. October 20, 2011 Floris Roelofsen taught a mini-seminar on inquisitive semantics and dynamic epistemic logic at Peking University. October 12, 2011 Floris Roelofsen presented a new paper on the algebraic foundations of inquisitive semantics at the Third International workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI-III) in Guangzhou, China. October 6, 2011 Floris Roelofsen presented joint work with Donka Farkas on polarity particles at the cross-linguistic semantics seminar in Amsterdam. October 3, 2011 Floris Roelofsen gave a Faculty Colloquium at the University of Amsterdam, a 10-minute presentation for a general audience about his current and future research. A video of the presentation is available here (it starts after the Dean's introduction, at 11:30, slide 15). September 20, 2011 The list of accepted papers for the workshop Questions in Discourse has been posted. September 6, 2011 Floris Roelofsen presented a joint paper with Adrian Brasoveanu and Donka Farkas at Sinn und Bedeutung about polarity particles and the anatomy of n-words. July 22, 2011 Floris Roelofsen received a VENI grant from the Dutch National Science Foundation, NWO, for a 3-year research project called Interpreting questions --- a fine-grained compositional semantics. The project will address several issues in the semantics of questions, making use of, and further developing, the framework of inquisitive semantics. July 15, 2011 Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper, which presents an algebraically motivated first-order inquisitive semantics. The paper will appear in the proceedings of the Third International workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI-III), which will be held in Guangzhou, China this Fall. July 1, 2011 A new paper by Floris Roelofsen on the algebraic foundations of inquisitive semantics has been accepted for presentation at the Third International workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI-III) in Guangzhou, China, this Fall. The paper will be posted soon. June 24, 2011 There are two upcoming workshops related to inquisitive semantics. The deadlines for submission are August 15 and September 1, respectively. June 23, 2011 Bruno Jacinto posted a term paper on modeling attentive content in inquisitive semantics. June 4, 2011 This summer there will be a one-week course on inquisitive semantics at the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information in Ljubljana. May 18, 2011 Jeroen Groenendijk will give a two-day seminar on inquisitive semantics at the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabruck. April 14, 2011 Floris Roelofsen gave a three-day seminar on inquisitive semantics at the Georg-August University in Goettingen, based on joined work with Adrian Brasoveanu, Ivano Ciardelli, Donka Farkas, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Kathryn Pruitt. April 14, 2011 Maria Aloni and Ivano Ciardelli posted a new paper on imperatives in inquisitive semantics. March 10, 2011 Floris Roelofsen presented joint work with Kathryn Pruitt on disjunctive questions at the University of California Santa Cruz. March 6, 2011 There will be a three-day mini-course on inquisitive semantics in Goettingen, April 11-13. See the course website for more information. February 2, 2011 There will be a mini-course on inquisitive semantics at UC San Diego in the beginning of March. See the course website for more information. February 2, 2011 Floris Roelofsen gave a talk at the University of California Santa Cruz, focusing on the algebraic foundations of inquisitive semantics. January 15, 2011 Floris Roelofsen will be a visiting researcher at the Linguistics Department of the University of California Santa Cruz from January through March. December 4, 2010 Katsuhiko Sano posted a new paper on first-order inquisitive pair logic. Katsuhiko will present the paper at the Fourth Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications [ICLA-11] in Dehli, India, 5-11 January 2011. October 28, 2010 Floris Roelofsen presented a joint paper with Jeroen Groenendijk on inquisitive and alternative semantics at a workshop on alternative-based semantics in Nantes. October 11, 2010 Floris Roelofsen gave an introductory talk on inquisitive semantics, pragmatics, and logic for Master of Logic students at the ILLC. Here are the slides of the talk. October 10, 2010 Andreas Haida posted a new paper on disjunctive questions. The paper develops a compositional inquisitive semantics, as well as an inquisitive semantics of focus, and applies this framework to the analysis of disjunctive questions, drawing evidence in particular from Chadic languages. October 2, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk gave a keynote talk at the Amsterdam Philosophy Graduate Conference on truth, meaning, and normativity in inquisitive semantics and pragmatics. Here are the slides of the talk. September 3, 2010 Scott Anderbois finished his paper Sluicing as anaphora to issues for the proceedings of SALT-20. September 3, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk presented joint work with Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen on modelling attentive content in inquisitive semantics at a workshop in honor of Hans Kamp's 70th birthday in Stuttgart, Germany. September 1, 2010 Morgan Mameni arrived in Amsterdam to join the team! August 20, 2010 The inquisitive logic paper by Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen is now online at the website of the Journal of Philosophical Logic. August 17, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk gave a keynote talk on radical inquisitive semantics at the TIDIAD workshop at ESSLLI in Kopenhagen, Denmark. July 4, 2010 Matthijs Westera (Utrecht) and Morgan Mameni (Vancouver) will join the inquisitive research program as PhD students this fall! June 18, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk gave a keynote talk on radical inquisitive semantics at the SemDial workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in Poznan, Poland. June 10, 2010 Ivano Ciardelli's MSc thesis has been recognized by the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications as one of the best four MSc theses of the year. Click here for more info. June 8, 2010 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen sent out the final version of their inquisitive logic paper to the Journal of Philosophical Logic. The paper will be in print soon. June 6, 2010 We have added a number of resources to the website for people working on or learning about inquisitive semantics. June 1, 2010 Today Floris Roelofsen started on his three-year postdoc project within the NWO-funded programme The Inquisitive Turn. This marks the official start of the programme. May 14, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen gave a joint 3-hour talk about inquisitive semantics at Rutgers, on the occasion of Sarah Murray's PhD defense. May 1, 2010 We received funding for two PhD positions. The official call for application is here. The deadline for application is May 22, 2010. More information can be found here. Please spread the news to potential applicants! March 25, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk gave a keynote talk on radical inquisitive semantics at the Journees Semantique et Modelisation in Nancy. February 18, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk will give a keynote talk on radical inquisitive semantics at the conference on Formal theories of communication, Lorentz Center, Leiden February 22-26. February 5, 2010 A paper by Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen has been accepted for presentation at the 6th International Symposium on Cognition, Logic, and Communication in Latvia, April 23-25, 2010. January 13, 2010 Jeroen Groenendijk presented a new Groenendijk & Roelofsen paper at the Colloquium of the Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück. December 18, 2009 FUNDING FOR TWO PHD POSITIONS! Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen received a grant from NWO for more research on inquisitive semantics. The grant includes funding for two PhD positions. For more information click here. Please spread the news to potential applicants! December 18, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli, Floris Roelofsen, and Sam van Gool presented their work at the Amsterdam Colloquium. December 14, 2009 Salvador Mascarenhas successfully defended his MSc thesis on Inquisitive Semantics and Logic. December 1, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli posted a new paper, which will be included in the pre-proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium. December 1, 2009 Floris Roelofsen and Sam van Gool posted a new paper, which will be included in the pre-proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium. November 30, 2009 Floris Roelofsen presented a joint paper with Sam van Gool at MIT. November 18. 2009 Congratulations Ivano and Floris! The paper Generalized Inquisitive Semantics and Logic by Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Philosophical Logic. November 19, 2009 Talk at the ILLC by Ivano Ciardelli on his thesis Inquisitive Semantics and Intermediate Logics at the Logic and Interactive Rationality Seminar. Thursday, November 19, 14:30, Room A1.10, Science Park 904. October 20, 2009 An abstract by Ivano Ciardelli was accepted for presentation at the Amsterdam Colloquium. October 20, 2009 An abstract by Floris Roelofsen and Sam van Gool was accepted for presentation at the Amsterdam Colloquium. October 16, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli, Irma Cornelisse, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen presented a paper at LORI-09 in Chongqing, China. October 1, 2009 Kata Balogh's successfully defended her dissertation. October 1, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen posted a paper on might, that will appear in the proceedings of SALT-09. September 18, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli's MSc thesis is available online. Ivano received the highest possible grade for this thesis, 10/10, something that very rarely happens in the Master of Logic program in Amsterdam. August 28, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper on inquisitive logic. The paper has been submitted for publication. August 28, 2009 The paper by Ivano Ciardelli, Irma Cornelisse, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen on computing compliant responses has been accepted for publication. July 28, 2009 A website providing computational tools for inquisitive semantics has been launched. July 28, 2009 Irma Cornelisse completed her BSc thesis, which investigates an algorithm for computing compliant responses to a given initiative. Irma received the highest grade of her class for this thesis. July 13, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli, Irma Cornelisse, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper on computing compliant responses. The paper has been submitted for publication. July 6, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen presented a paper about inquisitive logic at TARK, which was held at Stanford. May 25, 2009 Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper on inquisitive semantics and pragmatics. The paper will be presented at the Stanford workshop on Language, Communication, and Rational Agency. April 26, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen's paper has been accepted for presentation at TARK. April 11, 2009 Katsuhiko Sano's paper was accepted for presentation at WOLLIC. April 6, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen presented a paper about inquisitive semantics at SALT. April 1, 2009 Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen posted a new paper on inquisitive semantics and pragmatics. The paper will be presented at SPR. March 15, 2009 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen submitted a paper about inquisitive logic to TARK. March 5, 2009 Katsuhiko Sano submitted a paper about inquisitive logic to WOLLIC. more work in progress |  |