19-21 Dec 2011
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*Inquisitiveness* * *A workshop about inquisitiveness in semantics, pragmatics, and logic. Hosted by the Amsterdam Colloquium, December 19-21, 2011. *Website* https://sites.google.com/site/inquisitivesemantics/workshops/inquisitiveness-2011 *Invited speaker* Manfred Krifka, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin *Call for papers* Questions and answers are a major topic in semantics and pragmatics, and to some extent in logic and philosophy as well. This interest ininquisitiveness goes beyond the interpretation of questions as such. For example, questions are widely assumed to play a structural role in the analysis of discourse. Likewise, most theories on focus and the interpretation of intonation make a link with the question-answerhood relation. More radically it has been argued that a proper understanding of seemingly purely informative constructions, like disjunctions and conditionals, requires a notion of inquisitiveness as a basic ingredient of meaning. The main aim of this workshop is to investigate the significance of inquisitiveness for semantics, pragmatics, and logic. *Instructions for authors* Authors can submit anonymous abstracts of at most two pages via the website of the Amsterdam Colloquium. *Important dates* Submission deadline: September 1, 2011 Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2011 Deadline for pre-proceedings: December 1, 2011 Deadline for registration: December 1, 2011 Conference: December 19 - 21, 2011 *Organizers* Jeroen Groenendijk Floris Roelofsen Matthijs Westera