**How to participate:** Feel free to use the comments feature to ask written questions. There will be (at least) one video Q&A session on **Thursday 3, 6pm-7pm** (London time).
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87048736419
Please use your real name to connect (there is a waiting room). Send me an email at emile dot enguehard at ens dot fr if you have difficulties joining.
**Abstract:**
In certain cases, presuppositions triggered by an element inside a
question nucleus may fail to project. In fact, in what looks like
coordinated structures involving polar questions, presupposition
projection patterns are exactly parallel to what is observed when the
corresponding assertions are coordinated. My purpose is to show that
these facts do not fall out straightforwardly from existing theories of
polar questions, (apparent) coordinations of questions, and
presupposition projection. Instead, I propose a trivalent extension of
inquisitive semantics such that the observed pattern can be understood
in terms of existing theories of presupposition projection. The proposal
has the following properties: (a) apparent coordinations of questions
actually are coordinations of questions and (b) the semantic denotation
of polar questions is asymmetric with respect to the “yes” and “no” answers.
