There is a weekly seminar on inquisitive semantics at the ILLC in Amsterdam. It is mostly intended for discussion of work in progress by members of the inquisitive semantics group at the ILLC, as well as visitors of the group. Anyone is welcome to attend the seminar. Time: Fridays 13.30 - 15.30 Place: ILLC seminar room, F1.15 Forthcoming: April 26: Dominique Blok: Pragmatic inferences of modified numerals and modals May 3: Wataru Uegaki: Issue-sensitive discourse particles and intonational compliance: the case of Japanese ‘ne' and ‘yo' May 24: Sophie Repp Past: April 8 (Monday): Gianluca Grilletti: Algebraic and topological semantics for inquisitive logic via
choice-free duality April 5: Dean McHugh: Negation and alternatives in conditional antecedents Zhuyoe Zhao: What do we know when we ask questions: experimental evidence for contextual inquisitiveness January 25: Jos Tellings: Tense and temporal questions in Inquisitive Semantics January 18: Floris Roelofsen: NPIs in questions December 14: a workshop in Leiden on modals and semantics: http://www.wataruuegaki.com/modal-universals December 7: Amir Anvari (Paris) November 30: Thom & Tom van Gessel & Schoonen: Inconsistent information states (12- 2pm) November 23: Erlinde Meertens (Konstanz): Generating class in disjunctive questions June 25 *Monday* (2pm-4pm): Danny Fox June 22: Marvin Schmitt and Hana Möller Kalpak June 15 (4pm - 6pm): Malte Zimmermann (Postdam) June 12: *Tuesday*, 12pm - 2pm Dora Mihoc: An extent-based GQT-style unified implicature account of bare and modified numerals June 5 *Tuesday* (1.30pm - 3.30pm): Alexandre Cremers (joint work with
Thom van Gessel and Floris Roelofsen): Polarity sensitivity of question
embedding May 25: Morwenna Hoeks, Jonathan Pesetsky (different time slot: 12.00 - 14.00) May 4: Gianluca Griletti: Tackling
the completeness problem for InqBQ: techniques and current
results April 26: Nadine Theiler: Choosing additive particles in wh-questions April 13: Zhuoye Zhao: Towards more dynamics of questions: an inquisitive plausibility-urgency model Jonathan Pesetsky & Saúl Fernández: Suppose Epistemic Contradictions Might Just Be Moore Sentences April 6: presentations of Master of Logic students, track language March 23: Floris Roelofsen: Some thoughts on NPIs in questions and emotive factives February 9: Andreas Haida: Obligatory irrelevance and the computation of ignorance inferences January 19: Jakub Dotlacil: Dynamic properties of question words December 8: Floris Roelofsen: An inquisitive perspective on hyperintensionality December 1: Gianluca Grilletti: An Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game for inquisitive first-order logic November 17: Alexandre Cremers: "Plurality effects in an exhaustification-based theory of embedded questions" November 3: Tamara Dobler: An inquisitive approach to occasion-sensitivity October 27: Thom van Gessel: Acceptability of interrogatives under be certain Sep 15: after-summer meeting Jun 16: Thom van Gessel, Quantifiers in Questions Jun 9: Gianluca Grilletti, Disjunction and existence property in inquisitive first-order logic. Jun 2: Nadine Theiler, The precondition particle: towards a unified analysis of German denn May 19: Salvador Mascarenhas (Paris): Exploring the line between reasoning and interpretation May 12: Ivano Ciardelli, Counterfactuals: from minimal change to maximal background May 4: Nadine Theiler, A semantic account of the selectional restrictions of rogative and anti-rogative verbs Apr 21: Ivano Ciardelli, Breaking de Morgan's law in counterfactual antecedent + lifting conditionals to inquisitive semantics Apr 7: Vit Punčochár (Prague), Inquisitive Relevant Logic Mar 17: Yimei Xiang (Harvard), Sensitivity to false answers in interpreting questions under attitudes Mar 10: Jakub Dotlačil, Dynamics of questions Mar 3: Fan Yang (Delft), Propositional team logics Feb 24: Alexandre Cremers, Morwenna Hoeks, Grzegorz Lisowski and Jonathan Pesetsky. Experimental evidence for semantic accounts of free choice + Ignorance inferences from modified numerals Feb 17: Liz Coppock, On the relation between verbal mood and sentence mood Feb 10: Giuseppe Greco (Delft), A multi-type calculus for inquisitive logic Feb 3: Floris Roelofsen, What's wrong with wonder that and believe whether? Jan 20: Andrzej Wiśniewski (Poznan), Generalized entailment and inferential erotetic logic Dec 2: Floris Roelofsen, Inquisitive live possibility semantics, Part II Nov 25: Sabine Iatridou, Indefinite uses of wh-words Nov 18: Floris Roelofsen, Inquisitive live possibility semantics, Part I Nov 4: Special session on modified numerals 13.00 Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen: Implicatures of modified numerals, quantity or quality? 13.40 Stavroula Alexandropoulou (Utrecht): Survey of recent experimental results 14.20 Alexandre Cremers: Design for a new experiment Oct 21: Gianluca Grilletti, First-order inquisitive logic Oct 14: Thom van Gessel, Inquisitive action model logic Oct 7: Alexandre Cremers (practice talk for NELS, joint work with Yimei Xiang) Sept 30: Jakub Dotlacil Sept 23: Wataru Uegaki (Leiden), The ignorance implication of inquisitive predicates (joint work with Floris Roelofsen) Sept 16: Ivano Ciardelli, Questions as information types Sept 9: Nadine Theiler, Truthful resolutions: a new perspective on false-answer sensitivity Sept 2: Floris Roelofsen, Introduction and welcome to new members Visitors 2018/2019 Oct 8-9 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) Nov 21-23 Erlinde Meertens (Konstanz) Dec 6-7 Amir Anvari (Paris) Jan 13-27 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) Visitors 2017/2018 Jan 8-22 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) Feb 5-9 Andreas Haida (Jerusalem) May 28-30 Sabine Iatridou (MIT) June 11-14 Dora Mihoc (Harvard) June 15 Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) June 16-23 Liz Coppock (Boston University) June 21-25 Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz) June 25-27 Danny Fox (MIT) Visitors 2016/2017 Sept 1 - July 1: Liz Coppock (Gothenburg/Uppsala) Jan 19-20: Andrzej Wiśniewski (Poznan) Jan 25-27: Clemens Mayr (Berlin) Mar 11-18: Yimei Xiang (Harvard) Apr 3-24: Vit Puncochar (Prague) May 17-19: Salvador Mascarenhas (Paris) June 26-30: various guests as part of the first InqBnB workshop Dec 18-19: various guests as part of the second InqBnB workshop |