Latest update: January 12, 2012

Interests

My main field of interest is linguistics, but I also have a background in logic, computer science, and philosophy of language, and I often collaborate with researchers from these fields. Within linguistics, my areas of specialization are semantics, pragmatics, the syntax-semantics interface, and intonational meaning.

My current research focuses on:

For more details, please see my resume.

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Journal articles

Maria Aloni and Floris Roelofsen, Interpreting concealed questions. Linguistics and Philosophy 34(5), 443-478, 2012.

Floris Roelofsen, Free variable economy. Linguistic Inquiry 42(4), 682-697, 2011.

Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen, Inquisitive logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic 40(1), 55-94, 2010.

Floris Roelofsen, Condition B effects in two simple steps. Natural Language Semantics 18(2), 115-140, 2009.

Floris Roelofsen, Distributed Knowledge. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logic 17(2), 255-273, 2007.

Book chapters and conference proceedings

Floris Roelofsen. Algebraic foundations for inquisitive semantics. In H. van Ditmarsch, J. Lang, and J. Shier, editors, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, LORI 2011, pages 233-243, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen. Compliance. In A. Lecomte and S. Troncon, editors, Ludics, Dialogue, and Interaction, pages 161--173, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

Floris Roelofsen and Sam van Gool. Disjunctive questions, intonation and highlighting. In M. Aloni, H. Bastiaanse, T. de Jager, and K. Schulz, editors, Logic, Language, and Meaning: Selected Papers from the 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, pages 384-394, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.

Jeroen Groenendijk and Floris Roelofsen, Inquisitive Semantics and Pragmatics. Language, Communication and Rational Agency [LCRA-09], Stanford, USA, May 30-31, 2009. An earlier version appeared in J.M. Larrazabal and L. Zubeldia, editors, Meaning, Content and Argument, Proceedings of the ILCLI International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics and Rhetoric, pages 41-72, University of the Basque Country Publication Service, 2009.

Ivano Ciardelli, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen. Attention! Might in Inquisitive Semantics. In E. Cormany, S. Ito, and D. Lutz, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Semantics and Linguistic Theory [SALT-09], pages 91-108, published by eLanguage in 2011.

Ivano Ciardelli, Irma Cornelisse, Jeroen Groenendijk, and Floris Roelofsen. Computing Compliance. In X. He, J. Horty, and E. Pacuit, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, LORI-09, pages 55-65, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

Ivano Ciardelli and Floris Roelofsen, Generalized inquisitive logic: completeness via intuitionistic Kripke models. Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Theoretical Aspacts of Rationality and Knowledge [TARK-09], pages 71-80, published by ACM, New York, 2009.

Floris Roelofsen, Free Variable Economy. Sinn und Bedeutung [SuB-13], Stuttgart, Germany, October 2008.

Floris Roelofsen and Maria Aloni, Perspectives on Concealed Questions. Semantics and Linguistic Theory [SALT-08], Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, March 2008.

Rebecca Nesson, Floris Roelofsen, and Barbara Grosz, Rational Coordinated Anaphora Theory. Technical report, Harvard University, 2007.

Gerhard Brewka, Floris Roelofsen and Luciano Serafini, Contextual Default Reasoning. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI-07], Hyderabad, India, January 2007.

Floris Roelofsen and Luciano Serafini, Minimal and Absent Information in Contexts. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI-05], Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005.

Floris Roelofsen and Luciano Serafini, Minimality and Non-Determinism in Multi-Context Systems. International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context [CONTEXT-05], Paris, France, July 2005.

Floris Roelofsen, Luciano Serafini, and Alessandro Cimatti, Many Hands Make Light Work: Localized Satisfiability for Multi-Context Systems. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence [ECAI-04], Valencia, Spain, August 2004.

Floris Roelofsen and Luciano Serafini, Complexity of Contextual Reasoning. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence [AAAI-04], San Jose, California, USA, July 2004.

PhD/MSc theses

Master thesis 2004: Contextual Reasoning.
Master thesis 2005: Distributed Knowledge.
PhD dissertation 2008: Anaphora Resolved.

Some pictures of my PhD defense:

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Contact

My email address is name@domain where
name = floris.roelofsen and
domain = gmail.com
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