Research projects
Questions in sign language
2022–2027][ VICI
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Floris Roelofsen PI • Amsterdam
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Marloes Oomen Postdoc • Amsterdam
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Raquel Veiga Busto Postdoc • Amsterdam
New territories for modal logic
2021–2026][ Emmy Noether
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Ivano Ciardelli PI • Munich
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Gianluca Grilletti Postdoc • Munich
Adrian Ommundsen PhD student • Munich
Cross-linguistic investigation of meaning-driven combinatorial restrictions in clausal embedding
2021–2024
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Wataru Uegaki co-PI • Edinburgh
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Maribel Romero co-PI • Konstanz
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Floris Roelofsen co-I • Amsterdam
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Ciyang Qing Postdoc • Edinburgh
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Deniz Ozyildiz Postdoc • Konstanz
Quantification and modality in the realm of questions
2016–2021][ Starting Grant
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Floris Roelofsen PI • Amsterdam
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Ivano Ciardelli External co-PI • Munich
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Alexandre Cremers Postdoc • Amsterdam
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Ciyang Qing Postdoc • Amsterdam
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Thom van Gessel PhD student • Amsterdam
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Gianluca Grilletti PhD student • Amsterdam
Searching for semantic universals in the modal domain
2018–2021][ Internationalisation Grant
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Wataru Uegaki PI • Leiden/Edinburgh
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Floris Roelofsen co-I • Amsterdam
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Maribel Romero co-I • Konstanz
Jakub Szymanik co-I • Amsterdam
Malte Zimmerman co-I • Postdam
Uli Sauerland co-I • Berlin
Inquisitiveness below and beyond the sentence boundary
2015–2020][ VIDI
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Floris Roelofsen PI • Amsterdam
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Alexandre Cremers Postdoc • Amsterdam
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Jakub Dotlacil Postdoc • Amsterdam
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Nadine Theiler PhD student • Amsterdam
Channels of meaning: how information can be expressed without being said
2014–2019][ Pro Futura Scientia
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Liz Coppock PI • GÖteborg
Quexistentials
2018–2019][ MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)
Non-question uses of question words cross-linguistically
2016–2017][ Visiting Professors Programme
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Sabine Iatridou Nominee • MIT
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Kees Hengeveld Nominator • Amsterdam
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Floris Roelofsen Nominator • Amsterdam
Questions, assertions, and the land in between
2015–2016][ Visiting Professors Programme
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Donka Farkas Nominee • Santa Cruz
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Floris Roelofsen Nominator • Amsterdam
Martin Stokhof Nominator • Amsterdam
The inquisitive turn: a new perspective on semantics, logic, and pragmatics
2010–2015][ Free Competition
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Jeroen Groenendijk PI • Amsterdam
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Floris Roelofsen Postdoc and co-PI • Amsterdam
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Ivano Ciardelli PhD student • Amsterdam
Matthijs Westera PhD student • Amsterdam
Interpreting questions: a fine-grained compositional semantics
2012–2015][ VENI
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Floris Roelofsen PI • Amsterdam
Compositional Semantics of Quantifier Words Cross-linguistically
2014–2015][ Visiting Professors Programme
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Anna Szabolcsi Nominee • New York
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Floris Roelofsen Nominator • Amsterdam
Martin Stokhof Nominator • Amsterdam