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
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, 2012
Donka Farkas presented joint work with Floris Roelofsen on polarity particles during an invited talk at the Amsterdam Colloquium.
December 19, 2012
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
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
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.
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
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
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
April 11, 2009
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
March 5, 2009
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