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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …