There is an age-old tradition in linguistics and philosophy to identify the meaning of a
entence with its truth-conditions. This can be explained by the fact that linguistic and …

This paper starts with an informal introduction to inquisitive semantics. After that, we present
a formal definition of the semantics, and introduce the basic semantic notions of …

Inquisitive Semantics: A New Notion of Meaning - Ciardelli - 2013 - Language and Linguistics
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This paper gives an account of the differences between polar and alternative questions, as
well as an account of the division of labor between compositional semantics and pragmatics …

This dissertation develops a theory of contrastive topics (CTs)—what they mean, and how
they are realized. I give a compositional semantics for CT constructions, built on the idea that …

This paper distinguishes between definiteness and determinacy. Definiteness is seen as a
morphological category which, in English, marks a (weak) uniqueness presupposition, while …

This dissertation explores the interplay of grammar and context in the interpretation of modal
words like ought, necessary, and need. The empirical foci of the discussion are patterns in …

Imperative sentences like Dance! do not seem to represent the world. Recent modal
analyses challenge this idea, but its intuitive and historical appeal remain strong. This paper …

This paper explores ways in which discourse participants convey an attitude about another
discourse participant's conversational move. We examine the semantics/pragmatics of …

Advocates of Expressivism about basically any kind of language are best-served by
abandoning a traditional content-centric approach to semantic theorizing, in favor of an …