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Two types of class B numeral modifiers: A reply to Nouwen 2010
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012 Nouwen (2010) proposes that numeral modifiers like “at most” and “up to” belong to a natural class of expressions that share the same semantic interpretation. We identify several semantic contrasts between “at most” and “up to” that are inconsistent with
Bernhard Schwarz +2 more
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'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 In American Sign Language (ASL), conjunction (‘and’) and disjunction (‘or’) are often conveyed by the same general use coordinator (transcribed as “COORD”).
Kathryn Davidson
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Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper defends the view that common nouns have a dual semantic structure that includes extension-determining and non-extension-determining components.
Guillermo Del Pinal
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Neg-raising and positive polarity: The view from modals
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This article shows that the deontic modals must, should and supposed to are all Positive Polarity Items which can raise in order to avoid being in an anti-licensing environment; it also establishes that should has a dual nature, i.e., it is not just a ...
Vincent Homer
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Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 I argue for a distinction between two types of positive polarity items (PPIs) which has not been recognized so far. While for some PPIs, anti-licensing is a strictly local phenomenon, for other PPIs anti-licensing should be stated as a global condition.
Benjamin Spector
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Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 We argue that the superlative modifiers at least and at most quantify over a scale of answers to the current question under discussion (and in this sense, resolve issues), and that they draw attention to the individual possibilities along the scale (and ...
Elizabeth Coppock, Thomas Brochhagen
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Typicality made familiar: A commentary on Geurts and van Tiel (2013)
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 In their recent paper, Geurts and van Tiel (2013) review a range of evidence on the availability of embedded scalar enrichments (upper-bound construals, or UBCs). They argue that these readings are not readily available, except when triggered by contrast
Chris Cummins
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Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 Definite descriptions with reference failure have been argued to give rise to different truth-value intuitions depending on the local linguistic context in which they appear.
Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendrői
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Quantity implicatures, exhaustive interpretation, and rational conversation
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 Quantity implicatures are inferences triggered by an utterance based on what other utterances a speaker could have made instead. Using ideas and formalisms from game theory, I demonstrate that these inferences can be explained in a strictly Gricean sense
Michael Franke
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 Over the last decade, various proposals have been made for supplanting the classical Gricean theory of scalar implicature with conventionalist (i.e. lexicalist or syntax-based) treatments.
Bart Geurts, Nausicaa Pouscoulous
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