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Bound 'de re' pronouns and the LFs of attitude reports
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 An empirical argument is given in support of Percus & Sauerland's (2003) theory of 'de re' ascription, according to which the internal argument of "believe" is a function from concept-generators to propositions.
Simon Charlow, Yael Sharvit
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The meaning of plural definites: A decision-theoretic approach
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012 This paper has two mutually motivating goals. The empirical goal is to demonstrate that definite plurals are expressions whose interpretation requires an approach that incorporates the goals of the speaker and hearer.
Sophia A. Malamud
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2009 The dynamic approach posits that a presupposition must be satisfied in its local context. But how is a local context derived from the global one? Extant dynamic analyses must specify in the lexical entry of any operator what its 'Context Change Potential'
Philippe Schlenker
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 This paper investigates the distribution of epistemic modals in attitude contexts in three Romance languages, as well as their potential interaction with mood selection.
Pranav Anand, Valentine Hacquard
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Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language has come from psycholinguistic models of speech production and ...
Jonathan Ginzburg +2 more
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Free choice permission as resource-sensitive reasoning
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 Free choice permission is a long-standing puzzle in deontic logic and in natural language semantics. It involves what appears to be a conjunctive use of "or": from "You may eat an apple or a pear", we can infer that "You may eat an apple" and that "You ...
Chris Barker
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Operators or restrictors? A reply to Gillies
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 According to operator theories, "if" denotes a two-place operator. According to restrictor theories, "if" doesn't contribute an operator of its own but instead merely restricts the domain of some co-occurring quantifier.
Justin Khoo
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Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2008 We propose that the antecedent of a donkey pronoun takes scope over and binds the donkey pronoun, just like any other quantificational antecedent would bind a pronoun.
Chris Barker, Chung-chieh Shan
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 For over a decade, the interpretation of scalar expressions under embedding has been a much debated issue, with proposed accounts ranging from strictly pragmatic, on one end of the spectrum, to lexico-syntactic, on the other.
Bart Geurts, Bob van Tiel
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Incremental quantification and the dynamics of pair-list phenomena
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 Distributive universals are unique among natural language quantifiers in the following three ways: (i) matrix interrogatives that contain them accept pair-list answers; (ii) indefinites and disjunctions in their scope may assume arbitrary functional ...
Dylan Bumford
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