Speaker: Vincent Rouillard (MIT)
Title: Hurford’s constraints and inquisitive semantics
Date and time: Wednesday, September 12, 1-2 pm
Location: 32-D461
Abstract:
In this presentation, I will be discussing Ciardelli and Roelofsen’s 2017 paper ”Hurford’s constraint, the semantics of disjunction, and the nature of alternatives”. This paper compares the treatment of Hurford disjunctions in interrogatives within the frameworks of alternative semantics and inquisitive semantics. The authors argue that the framework of inquisitive semantics, whose basic assumptions will be covered in the presentation, facilitates a unified treatment of Hurford phenomena in both declaratives and interrogatives.