Inquisitive semantics — NASSLLI 2012 lecture notes —

1 4 Inquisitive semantics 17 4.1 Inquisitive semantics for a first-order language . . . . . . . . . 18 4.2 Semantic categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.3 Information and truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4.4 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.5 Syntactic properties of questions and assertions . . . . . . . . 28 4.6 Projection operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.7 Propositions expressed in a state and support . . . . . . . . . 32

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