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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 Sabine Iatridou (2000) and Katrin Schulz (2014) defend accounts of the past tense in subjunctive conditionals according to which the past tense has a modal reading that excludes the world of utterance or some set of epistemically possible worlds. I argue
John Mackay
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Bishop Sentences and Donkey Cataphora: A Response to Barker and Shan
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 Some issues are raised concerning the treatment of donkey cataphora and bishop sentences in Barker & Shan 2008.
Paul David Elbourne
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A note on presupposition accommodation
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 The proviso problem arises for theories of presupposition whose projection component fails to derive certain presuppositions that are contributed by their constituent sentences.
Roni Katzir, Raj Singh
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The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 We present evidence from acceptability judgment experiments that there is systematic prosodic givenness marking in Czech in that discourse-salient elements avoid sentence stress, contra the claim in Kučerová (2007, 2012) that givenness is marked only ...
Radek Šimík, Marta Wierzba
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 The paper reexamines the interpretations that quantifiers in "than"-clauses give rise to. It develops an analysis that combines an interval semantics for the "than"-clause with a standard semantics for the comparative operator.
Sigrid Beck
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Presuppositions, provisos, and probability
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012 Theories of presupposition in the tradition associated with Karttunen, Stalnaker and Heim relate presupposition satisfaction to the content of conversational participants’ epistemic states, usually modeled as sets of worlds.
Daniel Lassiter
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from some to not all, is that they fall into the class of GCIs and as such, constitute a homogeneous class of highly regularized and context-independent ...
Judith Degen
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Wh-islands in degree questions: A semantic approach
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 It is proposed that wh-islands with degree questions are unacceptable because they cannot be given a most informative true answer. Wh-islands thus are shown to be similar to other cases of weak islands which have been argued to result from Maximization ...
Márta Abrusán
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper investigates the processing of sentence-internal "same" with four licensors ("all", "each", "every" and "the") in two orders: licensor+"same (surface scope) and "same"+licensor (inverse scope).
Adrian Brasoveanu, Jakub Dotlačil
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The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 The standard degree analysis of gradability in English holds that the function of degree morphology, such as the comparative, measure phrases, and degree adverbs, is to bind a degree variable located in the lexical semantics of gradable predicates.
M. Ryan Bochnak
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