Inquisitive semantics is a new semantic framework mainly intended forthe analysis of linguistic information exchange. Information exchangecan be seen as a process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitivesemantics provides a new formal notion of issues, which makes itpossible to model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis oflinguistic information exchange in a more refined and m…
In logic, we study properties of sentences, such as truth, falsity, necessity, and contin-gency, relations between sentences, such as entailment and consistency, and practicesinvolving sentences, such as argumentation. However, bysentences, we normallyonly mean sentences of a certain particular kind: declarative sentences—statements,and their counterparts in formal languages.There are princip…