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Linear Spaces, Boolean Algebras, and First Order Logic 线性空间，布尔代数和一阶逻辑
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65645-8_2
András Kornai
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引用次数: 0
A formal semantics for situated conversation 情境会话的形式语义
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-09-24 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.10
Julie Hunter, A. Lascarides
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引用次数: 27
Complex sentential operators refute unrestricted Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents 复句运算符驳斥不受限制的虚拟前提简化
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-06-12 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.9
Daniel Lassiter
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引用次数: 7
The case of the missing ‘If’: Accessibility relations in Stalnaker’s theory of conditionals 缺失“如果”的情况:斯托纳克条件句理论中的可及性关系
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-06-12 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.8
M. Mandelkern
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引用次数: 3
Might do better: Flexible relativism and the QUD 可能会更好:灵活的相对主义和QUD
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-06-04 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.7
Bob Beddor, A. Egan
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引用次数: 20
Disentangling two distinct notions of NEG raising 解开NEG提升的两个不同概念
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-05-22 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.5
C. Collins, P. Postal
{"title":"Disentangling two distinct notions of NEG raising","authors":"C. Collins, P. Postal","doi":"10.3765/SP.11.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/SP.11.5","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we consider two analyses of NEG raising phenomena: a syntactic approach based on raising NEG, as recently advocated in Collins & Postal 2014, and a semantic/pragmatic approach based on the Excluded Middle Assumption; see Bartsch 1973. We show that neither approach alone is sufficient to account for all the relevant phenomena. Although the syntactic approach is needed to explain the distribution of strict NPIs and Horn clauses, the semantic/pragmatic approach is needed to explain certain inferences where syntactic NEG raising is blocked. \u0000 \u0000EARLY ACCESS","PeriodicalId":45550,"journal":{"name":"Semantics & Pragmatics","volume":"11 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47204111","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}
引用次数: 12
Reconstructing the syntax of focus operators 重构焦点运算符的语法
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-05-03 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.6
L. Smeets, Michael Wagner
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引用次数: 9
That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non‑)exhaustivity in clefts 这还不完全是:对裂缝(非)穷尽性的实验研究
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-04-18 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.3
J. Veaugh-Geiss, Swantje Tönnis, Edgar Onea, M. Zimmermann
{"title":"That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non‑)exhaustivity in clefts","authors":"J. Veaugh-Geiss, Swantje Tönnis, Edgar Onea, M. Zimmermann","doi":"10.3765/SP.11.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/SP.11.3","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel empirical study on German directly comparing the exhaustivity inference in es -clefts to exhaustivity inferences in definite pseudoclefts, exclusives, and plain intonational focus constructions. We employ mouse-driven verification/falsification tasks in an incremental information-retrieval paradigm across two experiments in order to assess the strength of exhaustivity in the four sentence types. The results are compatible with a parallel analysis of clefts and definite pseudoclefts, in line with previous claims in the literature (Percus 1997, Buring & Križ 2013). In striking contrast with such proposals, in which the exhaustivity inference is conventionally coded in the cleft-structure in terms of maximality/homogeneity, our study found that the exhaustivity inference is not systematic or robust in es -clefts nor in definite pseudoclefts: Whereas some speakers treat both constructions as exhaustive, others treat both constructions as non-exhaustive. In order to account for this unexpected finding, we argue that the exhaustivity inference in both clefts and definite pseudoclefts — specifically those with the compound definite derjenige — is pragmatically derived from the anaphoric existence presupposition that is common to both constructions. \u0000 \u0000EARLY ACCESS \u0000 \u0000 Supplementary materials","PeriodicalId":45550,"journal":{"name":"Semantics & Pragmatics","volume":"11 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48571689","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}
引用次数: 13
Free choice and distribution over disjunction: the case of free choice ability 析取上的自由选择与分配：自由选择能力的情形
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-04-18 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.4
R. Nouwen
{"title":"Free choice and distribution over disjunction: the case of free choice ability","authors":"R. Nouwen","doi":"10.3765/SP.11.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/SP.11.4","url":null,"abstract":"This squib discusses the semantics of ability modals in relation to the law of distribution over disjunction and free choice effects. Most current analyses of free choice need distribution over disjunction as a theorem for modals in order to correctly derive free choice inferences. Famously, however, ability modals have been argued to fail to meet distribution over disjunction (Kenny 1976). The squib explores to what extent free choice abilities are dependent on the distribution property. \u0000 \u0000EARLY ACCESS","PeriodicalId":45550,"journal":{"name":"Semantics & Pragmatics","volume":"11 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47712140","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}
引用次数: 13
Counterfactual de se 反事实的事实
IF 1.1
Semantics & Pragmatics Pub Date : 2018-02-15 DOI: 10.3765/SP.11.2
Hazel Pearson
{"title":"Counterfactual de se","authors":"Hazel Pearson","doi":"10.3765/SP.11.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/SP.11.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses a long-standing debate concerning the derivation of de se construals. One camp holds that there is a dedicated mechanism of ‘de se binding’, which results in a de se pronoun being interpreted as a variable ranging over the doxastic alternatives of the attitude holder (e.g. Chierchia 1990). Another treats de se as a special case of de re under the acquaintance relation of identity (e.g. Lewis 1979, Reinhart 1990). This debate is premised on the assumption that the two different routes to de se result in identical truth conditions. I argue that this assumption is incorrect for a class of cases that can be delineated in a principled fashion — counterfactual attitude reports involving counter-identity, such as Ivanka imagined that she was Melania and she was giving an interview . The argument builds on Ninan 2008, who noticed that de re construal works differently with counterfactual attitudes, and that this has consequences for de se interpretation in this type of sentence. I spell out these consequences more precisely, drawing on a novel, crosslinguistically robust generalization about unambiguously de se expressions such as PRO (the ‘De Se Generalization’). I argue that a treatment of such expressions that appeals to de se-as-de re cannot account for the De Se Generalization in a principled way, and hence that a dedicated mechanism of de se binding must be included among the expressive resources of the grammar. \u0000 \u0000EARLY ACCESS","PeriodicalId":45550,"journal":{"name":"Semantics & Pragmatics","volume":"11 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47004489","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}
引用次数: 6
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