Nancy (France), 20 June 2023, hosted by with IWCS 2023
InqBnB is a workshop series bringing together researchers interested in the semantics and pragmatics of interrogatives. This series was originally organized by the Inquisitive Semantics Group of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) from the University of Amsterdam. As such, the focus point mainly revolves around analyses using or related to inquisitive semantics [1].
[1] I. Ciardelli, J. Groenendijk, and F. Roelofsen, Inquisitive Semantics. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Important dates
All deadlines are anywhere on Earth (AoE)
- Submission deadline: 14 April
- Author notification: 12 May
- Camera ready: 9 June
- Workshop day: 20 June
Call for papers
The InqBnB workshop invites submissions on original and unpublished research focussed on the properties of inquisitive content. We are mainly interested in theoretical questions, formal models and empirical work. But we are also welcoming papers based on statistical or neural models, provided their main goal is to bring new insights regarding inquisitiveness.
Here are some examples of questions of interest:
- Which operators (connectives, quantifiers, modals, conditionals) generate inquisitiveness?
- How do these operators project the inquisitive content of their arguments?
- e.g. what triggers maximality, exhaustivity or uniqueness of readings?
- How does inquisitive content interact with informative content in compositional semantics?
- e.g. how do interrogative words interact with negative polarity items, free choice items, indefinites or plurality?
- How do conventions of use interact with inquisitive content?
- e.g. how can non-answering responses (e.g. clarification questions) be handled?
- In which ways is pragmatics sensitive to inquisitive content?
- e.g. how does answer bias and ignorance inferences arise?
- What kind of discourse anaphora are licensed by inquisitive expressions?
- e.g. does dynamic inquisitive semantics manage to correctly derive donkey anaphora?
Submission
Papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages (not counting acknowledgement, references and appendices). Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version.
Submitted papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use the specific style-files or the Overleaf template for IWCS 2023 (taken from ACL 2021). Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing.
Submission link on SoftConf : https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/inqbnb4/
Proceedings
The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology.
Invited speakers
- Todor Koev, Universität Konstanz
- Wataru Uegaki, University of Edinburgh
Programme committee
- Local chair: Valentin D. Richard, Université de Lorraine
- Chair: Floris Roelofsen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Maria Aloni, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Lucas Champollion, New York University (NYU)
- Jakub Dotlačil, Universiteit Utrecht
- Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris Cité
- Philippe de Groote, INRIA Nancy – Grand Est
- Todor Koev, Universität Konstanz
- Reinhard Muskens, Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Maribel Romero, Universität Konstanz
- Wataru Uegaki, University of Edinburgh
- Yimei Xiang, Rutgers Linguistics
Organizers
- Valentin D. Richard, Loria, Université de Lorraine
- Philippe de Groote, Loria, INRIA Nancy – Grand Est
- Floris Roelofsen, ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Contact: valentin(dot)richard(at)loria.fr
Partners
We thank NWO for financing this workshop.
