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Embedded Implicatures and Experimental Constraints: A Reply to Geurts & Pouscoulous and Chemla
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 Experimental evidence on embedded implicatures by Chemla (2009b) and Geurts & Pouscoulous (2009a) has fewer theoretical consequences than assumed: On the one hand, the evidence successfully argues against obligatory local implicature computation, which ...
Uli Sauerland
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it
Sarah Moss
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Explaining presupposition projection with dynamic semantics
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 Heim's (1982, 1983b) dynamic semantics provides an attractive system for capturing the basic facts about presupposition projection. A long-standing criticism of this semantics is that it requires for each connective lexical stipulations that are not ...
Daniel Rothschild
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Mixed quotation: The grammar of apparently transparent opacity
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation.
Emar Maier
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Universal Implicatures and Free Choice Effects: Experimental Data
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 Universal inferences like (i) have been taken as evidence for a local/syntactic treatment of scalar implicatures (i.e. theories where the enrichment of "some" into "some but not all" can happen sub-sententially): (i) Everybody read some of the ...
Emmanuel Chemla
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A discourse model for überhaupt
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 The German particle "überhaupt" exhibits a variety of uses with seemingly unrelated meanings. Correspondingly, only partial and non-unified theoretical accounts have been proposed.
Tania Rojas-Esponda
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 Models of conversation that rely on a strong notion of cooperation don’t apply to strategic conversation — that is, to conversation where the agents’ motives don’t align, such as courtroom cross examination and political debate.
Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides
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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012 The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature.
Valentine Hacquard, Alexis Wellwood
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Conjunctive interpretations of disjunctions
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 In this extended commentary I discuss the problem of how to account for "conjunctive" readings of some sentences with embedded disjunctions for globalist analyses of conversational implicatures.
Robert van Rooij
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Modification in non-combining idioms
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 This squib discusses metalinguistic modification, expressives, domain modification, hypallage, and conjunctive modification within verb phrase idioms.
Scott McClure
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