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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 The paper reexamines the interpretations that quantifiers in "than"-clauses give rise to. It develops an analysis that combines an interval semantics for the "than"-clause with a standard semantics for the comparative operator.
Sigrid Beck
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Presuppositions, provisos, and probability
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012 Theories of presupposition in the tradition associated with Karttunen, Stalnaker and Heim relate presupposition satisfaction to the content of conversational participants’ epistemic states, usually modeled as sets of worlds.
Daniel Lassiter
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 A prevalent, but to date untested, assumption about lexicalized scalar implicatures such as those from some to not all, is that they fall into the class of GCIs and as such, constitute a homogeneous class of highly regularized and context-independent ...
Judith Degen
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Wh-islands in degree questions: A semantic approach
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2011 It is proposed that wh-islands with degree questions are unacceptable because they cannot be given a most informative true answer. Wh-islands thus are shown to be similar to other cases of weak islands which have been argued to result from Maximization ...
Márta Abrusán
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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 This paper investigates the processing of sentence-internal "same" with four licensors ("all", "each", "every" and "the") in two orders: licensor+"same (surface scope) and "same"+licensor (inverse scope).
Adrian Brasoveanu, Jakub Dotlačil
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The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015 The standard degree analysis of gradability in English holds that the function of degree morphology, such as the comparative, measure phrases, and degree adverbs, is to bind a degree variable located in the lexical semantics of gradable predicates.
M. Ryan Bochnak
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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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PASTA‐ELN: Simplifying Research Data Management for Experimental Materials Science
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Research data management faces ongoing hurdles as many ELNs remain complex and restrictive. PASTA‐ELN offers an open‐source, cross‐platform solution that prioritizes simplicity, offline access, and user control. Its in tuitive folder structure, modular Python add‐ons, and open formats enable seamless documentation, FAIR data practices, and easy ...
S. Brinckmann, G. Winkens, R. Schwaiger
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