The role of alternatives in language

S Repp, K Spalek - Frontiers in Communication, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this review we provide a discussion of the concept of alternatives and its role in linguistic
and psycholinguistic theorizing in the context of the contributions that have appeared in the …

Free choice, simplification, and innocent inclusion

ME Bar-Lev, D Fox - Natural Language Semantics, 2020 - Springer
We propose a modification of the exhaustivity operator from Fox (in: Sauerland and Stateva
(eds) Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics, Palgrave Macmillan …

Free choice and homogeneity

S Goldstein - Semantics and Pragmatics, 2019 - semprag.org
This paper develops a semantic solution to the puzzle of Free Choice permission. The paper
begins with a battery of impossibility results showing that Free Choice is in tension with a …

An implicature account of homogeneity and non-maximality

ME Bar-Lev - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2021 - Springer
I provide arguments in favor of an implicature approach to Homogeneity (Magri in
Pragmatics, semantics and the case of scalar implicatures, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp …

What is Super Semantics?*

P Schlenker - Philosophical Perspectives, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary formal semantics was born from the project to treat natural languages as
formal languages, not just in their syntactic component (as generative syntax had done), but …

Pluralities across categories and plural projection

V Schmitt - Semantics and Pragmatics, 2019 - semprag.org
This paper proposes an extension of the class of plural expressions, a generalized analysis
of the denotations of such expressions and a novel account of how they semantically …

Gestural semantics: Replicating the typology of linguistic inferences with pro-and post-speech gestures

P Schlenker - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2019 - Springer
We argue that a large part of the typology of linguistic inferences can be replicated with
gestures, including some that one might not have seen before. While gesture research often …

[PDF][PDF] Homogeneity as presuppositional exhaustification

J Guerrini, J Wehbe - LingBuzz Published In: https://lingbuzz. net …, 2024 - lingbuzz.net
The goal of this paper is to reconcile two observations regarding homogeneity and non-
maximality. First, homogeneity is sensitive to constraints on presupposition accommodation …

Exhaustivity and Anti‐Exhaustivity in the RSA Framework: Testing the Effect of Prior Beliefs

A Cremers, EG Wilcox, B Spector - Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
During communication, the interpretation of utterances is sensitive to a listener's probabilistic
prior beliefs. In this paper, we focus on the influence of prior beliefs on so‐called exhaustivity …

Conditional heresies

F Cariani, S Goldstein - Philosophy and Phenomenological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The principles of Conditional Excluded Middle (CEM) and Simplification of Disjunctive
Antecedents (SDA) have received substantial attention in isolation. Both principles are …