Inquisitive Semantics: Two Possibilities for Disjunction

  • Authors:
  • Jeroen Groenendijk

  • Affiliations:
  • ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam,

  • Venue:
  • Logic, Language, and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce an inquisitive semantics for a language of propositional logic, where the interpretation of disjunction is the source of inquisitiveness. Indicative conditionals and conditional questions are treated on a par both syntactically and semantically. The semantics comes with a new logical-pragmatical notion which judges and compares the compliance of responses to an initiative in inquisitive dialogue.