Recent years have seen a surge of experimental approaches to the study of natural
language meaning, both to obtain solid data on subtle phenomena that are hard to assess …

Some presuppositions are easier to cancel than others in embedded contexts. This contrast
has been used as evidence for distinguishing two fundamentally different kinds of …

In the past decades of research, questions have become a very prominent topic at the
semantics-pragmatics interface. Certainly, they are a natural and challenging topic for any …

Presupposition, vagueness, and oddness can lead to some sentences failing to have a clear
truth value. The homogeneity property of plural predication with definite descriptions may …

According to one view of linguistic information (Karttunen, 1974; Stalnaker, 1974), a speaker
can convey contextually new information in one of two ways:(a) by asserting the content as …

A central aspect of language comprehension is that hearers integrate incoming linguistic
content both with the rest of the current sentence and the larger discourse context …

The property of projection poses a challenge to formal semantic theories, due to its apparent
non-compositional nature. Projected content is therefore typically analyzed as being …

One central debate in the analysis of definite descriptions concerns the truth-value of
sentences where there is no entity that meets the description in the definite. Classical …

The projection pattern of the existential/uniqueness presupposition of a wh-complement
varies depending on the predicate that embeds it. This variation poses problems for existing …

We present a novel empirical study on German directly comparing the exhaustivity inference
in es-clefts to exhaustivity inferences in definite pseudoclefts, exclusives, and plain …