ROBERTS AT InqBnB2

Tom Roberts was in Amsterdam December 18-19 at InqBnB2, a workshop on inquisitivity organized by former LRC visitors Jakub Dotlačil (Groningen) and Floris Roelofsen (Amsterdam). Tom presented a talk on “Relating Form and Meaning in Negative Polar Questions,” based on ongoing work about the semantics/pragmatics divide in the interpretation of Estonian NPQs.  Alum Scott AnderBois (Brown) also contributed to the strong showing among Santa Crustaceans with an invited talk on QUD downdating in Tagalog. Tom describes the atmosphere as equal parts convivial and informative: in addition to engaging with people on the cutting-edge of investigating meaning in questions, he was pleased to obtain extensive secondhand knowledge about the activities of the Amsterdam counterculture in the 1970s.