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Exhaustivity in questions with non-factives

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011
This paper is concerned with the conditions under which a person can be said to have told someone or predicted (the answer to a question like) 'who sang'.
Daniel Rothschild, Nathan Klinedinst
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The ingredients of comparison: The semantics of the excessive construction in Japanese

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015
Excessives (e.g., this pair of pants is too long) are often considered as a ‘degree construction’ in the literature, presumably because it is assumed that their semantics involves a comparison of degrees.
Xiao Li
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It's that, and that's it! Exhaustivity and homogeneity presuppositions in clefts (and definites)

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
This paper proposes a way to encode exhaustivity in clefts as a presupposition, something which has been claimed to be adequate, but never successfully implemented. We furthermore show that the facts that prompted the need for such an analysis carry over
Daniel Büring, Manuel Kriz
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Moral asymmetries and the semantics of many

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015
We present the results of four experiments concerning the evaluations people make of sentences involving many, showing that two sentences of the form many As are Bs and many As are Cs need not be equivalent when evaluated relative to a background in ...
Paul Egré, Florian Cova
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Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: The function of participles

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011
The paper offers a formal account of the discourse behaviour of participles, which to some extent behave like main clauses in having semantically undetermined relations to their matrix clause, but which should nevertheless be integrated into the ...
Corien Bary, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug
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Modals with a taste of the deontic

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013
The aim of this paper is to present an explanation for the impact of normative considerations on people's assessment of certain seemingly purely descriptive matters concerning freedom, causation, and intentionality.
Joshua Knobe, Zoltán Gendler Szabó
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Two kinds of modified numerals

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010
In this article, I show that there are two kinds of numeral modifiers: (Class A) those that express the comparison of a certain cardinality with the value expressed by the numeral and (Class B) those that express a bound on a degree property. The goal is,
Rick Nouwen
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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014
Recently, a number of theorists (MacFarlane (2003, 2011), Egan, Hawthorne & Weatherson (2005), Egan (2007), Stephenson (2007a,b)) have argued that an adequate semantics and pragmatics for epistemic modals calls for some technical notion of relativist ...
Joshua Knobe, Seth Yalcin
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Contrast and the structure of discourse

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014
The semantics of the coordinator but does not fit neatly into the traditional distinction between entailments and conversational implicatures. In its counterexpectational use, but can convey an implication relating its two conjuncts, which Grice (1975 ...
Maziar Toosarvandani
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Information Structure: Afterword

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012
This is the afterword to the 2012 republication of "Information structure in discourse: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics". See also the annotated bibliography on related topics at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~croberts/QUDbib ...
Craige Roberts
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