LINGUIST List 22.2563 Mon Jun 20 2011 Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Floris Roelofsen , Inquisitiveness Message 1: Inquisitiveness Date: 19-Jun-2011 From: Floris Roelofsen <floris.roelofsengmail.com> Subject: Inquisitiveness E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Inquisitiveness Date: 19-Dec-2011 - 21-Dec-2011 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Contact Person: Floris Roelofsen Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/inquisitivesemantics/workshops/inquisitiveness-2011 Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2011 Meeting Description: Questions and answers are a major topic in semantics and pragmatics, and to some extent in logic and philosophy as well. This interest in inquisitiveness goes beyond the interpretation of questions as such. For example, questions are widely assumed to play a structural role in the analysis of discourse. Likewise, most theories on focus and the interpretation of intonation make a link with the question-answerhood relation. More radically it has been argued that a proper understanding of seemingly purely informative constructions, like disjunctions and conditionals, requires a notion of inquisitiveness as a basic ingredient of meaning. The main aim of this workshop is to investigate the significance of inquisitiveness for semantics, pragmatics, and logic. Call for Papers: Authors can submit anonymous abstracts of at most two pages via the website of the Amsterdam Colloquium: http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2011/ Important Dates: Submission deadline: September 1, 2011 Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2011 Deadline for pre-proceedings: December 1, 2011 Deadline for registration: December 1, 2011 Conference: December 19-21, 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.