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Conjoined Comparison and Variation in Degree Semantics
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Conjoined comparisons, consisting of two clauses containing antonymous or positive‐negative predicate pairs, are among the most common comparison construction types in the world's languages. As research on degree constructions from a cross‐linguistic perspective has increased, so too has the number of studies focused on conjoined comparisons ...
M. Ryan Bochnak
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On embedded implicatures [PDF]
, 2009 The Gricean approach explains implicatures by assumptions about the pragmatics of entire utterances. The phenomenon of embedded implicatures remains a challenge for this approach since in such cases apparently implicatures contribute to the truth ...
Sauerland, Uli
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 1, Page 173-194, July 2025.Abstract This essay offers an explanation of how assertions express that the speaker has a propositional attitude toward what's asserted. The explanation is that this feature of assertion is owed to a hearer's spontaneous mindreading. I call this the assertoric mindreading hypothesis.
Peter van Elswyk
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Broaden Your Views. Implications of Domain Widening and the "Logicality" of Language [PDF]
, 2006 Linguistic
Chierchia, Gennaro
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 458-474, June 2025.Abstract I argue that “general pejoratives” such as “jerk” or “bastard” differ crucially from items such as “that damn N”. While items such as the latter typically serve to give vent to one's attitudes, general pejoratives essentially involve judgments about a person's behaviour or character.
Thorsten Sander
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]
, 2016 Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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The Style Game: Control, Cues, and Anchors in Real Time Speech Accommodation
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 210-222, June 2025.ABSTRACT Theories of speech accommodation and audience design have tended to focus on social identity functions of convergence and divergence in interaction. In this article, I focus on additional interactional phenomena that are under‐studied but systematic.
Devyani Sharma
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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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Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 412-426, Fall 2025.
Michael Da Silva
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Bare Numerals and Scalar Implicatures
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2013 Abstract Bare numerals present an interesting challenge to formal semantics and pragmatics: they seem to be compatible between various readings (‘at least’, ‘exactly’, and ‘at most’ readings), and the choice of a particular reading seems to depend on complex interactions between contextual factors and linguistic ...
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