2nd CFP INQUISITIVENESS (Amsterdam 19-21, 2011)

[Floris Roelofsen]

*Inquisitiveness*
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*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
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