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Semifactives in comparatives 比较级中的半状语
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/82ex1x59
Nicholas Fleisher
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Partial plurality inferences of plural pronouns and dynamic pragmatic enrichment 复数代词的部分复数推断和动态语用丰富化
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/xs4db950
Takanobu Nakamura
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Commitments de lingua and assertoric commitments: the case of expressives 语言承诺和断言承诺：表达式的案例
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/t5nayp30
L. Hess, Corien Bary, Bob Van Tiel
{"title":"Commitments de lingua and assertoric commitments: the case of expressives","authors":"L. Hess, Corien Bary, Bob Van Tiel","doi":"10.3765/t5nayp30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/t5nayp30","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of two series of experimental studies concerning the interpretation of expressives (e.g., ‘the jerk’) and the sentences they occur in. While expressives are known for their strong speaker-orientation, Harris & Potts (2009) found that in the right context, i.e. when a different subject is introduced into the discourse as a reported speaker, it is possible to interpret the expressive from this subject’s perspective. In our first series of experiments we corroborated the systematic availability of non-speaker oriented readings of expressives, but we also found a strong correlation between the attribution of the expressive and that of the sentence content: participants who attribute the expressive to the subject rather than the speaker, also tend to attribute the sentence as a whole to the subject. In other words, shifted interpretations of expressives do occur, but tend to go hand-in-hand with a reportative reading of the sentence in which the expressive occurs. In our second series of experiments, we identified factors that influence such a reportative reading. Following Kaiser (2015), we found that when we made the subject more prominent as an anchor—by removing the reference to the actual speaker and by adjusting the tense to facilitate a free indirect discourse reading—the number of subject-oriented readings grew significantly. On the basis of these findings we argue for a pragmatic account in terms of commitment attribution with three constraints at work: (i) commitments de lingua for expressives need a salient anchor, (ii) commitments de lingua tend to be attributed in concert with assertoric commitments, and (iii) the main speaker is the most salient anchor by default. These three constraints jointly explain the observations in the experiments.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"4 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139524810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Acts, occasions and multiplicatives: A mereotopological account 行为、场合和乘法：多元素学说
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/a5wn4f77
Marcin Wągiel
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Clustering and declustering things: The meaning of collective and singulative morphology in Ukrainian 事物的聚类和去聚类：乌克兰语中集体和单数形态的含义
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/gw2h2150
Marcin Wągiel, Natalia Shlikhutka
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Arguments, Suppositions, and Conditionals 论据、假设和条件式
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/3kwazd46
Carlotta Pavese
{"title":"Arguments, Suppositions, and Conditionals","authors":"Carlotta Pavese","doi":"10.3765/3kwazd46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/3kwazd46","url":null,"abstract":"Arguments and conditionals are powerful means natural languages provide us to reason about possibilities and to reach conclusions from premises. These two kinds of constructions exhibit several affinities—e.g., they both come in different varieties depending on the mood; they share some of the same connectives (i.e., ‘then’); they also allow for similar patterns of modal subordination. In the light of these affinities, it is not surprising that prominent theories of conditionals—old and new suppositionalisms and dynamic theories of conditionals—as well as certain reductive theories of arguments tend to semantically assimilate conditionals and arguments. In this paper, I shall marshall some linguistic evidence as well as some theoretical considerations for thinking that, despite these similarities, arguments and conditionals should be given a different semantics. In the final part of the paper, extending and improving on Kocurek & Pavese 2022, I make some progress outlining a framework that has the potential to capture the affinities of conditionals and arguments, while modeling their differences too.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"3 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139524903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Epistemic bias anti-lincenses NPIs in polar questions 极地问题中的认识偏差反香料 NPIs
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/724jzm91
Tue Trinh
{"title":"Epistemic bias anti-lincenses NPIs in polar questions","authors":"Tue Trinh","doi":"10.3765/724jzm91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/724jzm91","url":null,"abstract":"There is general agreement that the distribution of any is unrestricted in polar questions. I argue that this is not the case: in contexts where there is epistemic bias in favor of the prejacent of a polar question, the question exhibits the same behavior as a declarative with respect to the licensing of any. I provide an account for this observation in terms of intervention: epistemic bias forces polar questions to be parsed as having a silent modal E which intervenes between any and the question operator whether that otherwise licenses any.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"2 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139525251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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From temporal to concessive meanings: a semantic analysis of 'still' 从时间意义到让步意义："静止 "的语义分析
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/yc66yy33
Aynat Rubinstein, E. Herburger
{"title":"From temporal to concessive meanings: a semantic analysis of 'still'","authors":"Aynat Rubinstein, E. Herburger","doi":"10.3765/yc66yy33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/yc66yy33","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a new proposal about the historical connection between the durative and concessive readings of English still and Hebrew ʕadain, a connection that shows striking parallels in the two languages. Building on a corpus study of Hebrew (Rubinstein forthcoming), we argue that durative 'still' precedes the concessive 'still' and that the latter first arises in bridging contexts (and earlier than previously thought). In contrast to previous literature, our proposal places the temporal-to-concessive development squarely in the semantics. We argue that concessive 'still' emerges when an originally durative 'still' gets \"infected\" with a concessive meaning that is expressed explicitly in the rest of the sentence.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"10 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139525765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ordinal numbers: Not superlatives, but modifiers of superlatives 序数：不是叠词，而是叠词的修饰词
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/snxdqy39
Johanna Victoria Alstott
{"title":"Ordinal numbers: Not superlatives, but modifiers of superlatives","authors":"Johanna Victoria Alstott","doi":"10.3765/snxdqy39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/snxdqy39","url":null,"abstract":"The few existing accounts of the semantics of ordinal numbers attribute to them all or almost all of the semantic properties of superlatives. This work discusses a construction problematic for existing theories of ordinals: the ordinal superlative construction (e.g. Joel climbed the third highest mountain). Existing theories give ordinals and superlatives such similar semantics that they struggle to explain how an ordinal and a superlative could join together and form a complex modifier. As an alternative, I propose a semantics according to which ordinals are exceptive modifiers of superlatives. For example, the n-th highest mountain is the mountain that, with n - 1 exceptions, is the highest. When an ordinal does not co-occur with an overt superlative (e.g. the second train), I posit a covert superlative adjective that represents the contextual ordering. Not only does this approach account for the ordinal superlative construction, but it lends itself to a principled explanation of differences between ordinals and superlatives with respect to plurality.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"41 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139612098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The role of intonation and context in lack of necessity meanings in negated deontic necessity modals in child Romanian 儿童罗马尼亚语中否定的deontic必然性情态中缺乏必然性含义的语调和语境作用
Semantics and Linguistic Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.3765/09xpy005
A. C. Bleotu, Gabriela Slăvuțeanu, Anton Benz
{"title":"The role of intonation and context in lack of necessity meanings in negated deontic necessity modals in child Romanian","authors":"A. C. Bleotu, Gabriela Slăvuțeanu, Anton Benz","doi":"10.3765/09xpy005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/09xpy005","url":null,"abstract":"The current paper experimentally addresses the question of whether Romanian 5-year-olds interpret negated deontic necessity modals as interdiction initially, and to what extent intonation and situational context may act as cues for a more adult-like interpretation. We find that, in the absence of situational context, children initially interpret all negated deontic modals as interdiction. Prosodic cues are on their own not enough to lead to an adult interpretation. However, in the presence of situational context, children are able to tease lack of necessity and interdiction apart and even show sensitivity to prosodic differences among negated modals.","PeriodicalId":21626,"journal":{"name":"Semantics and Linguistic Theory","volume":"4 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139525219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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