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{"title":"That-clauses in attitude predicates: Giving syntax its due","authors":"R. J. Matthews","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"289 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42756973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Plea for equality: Remarks on Moltmann’s semantics for clausal embedding","authors":"P. Elliott","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"241 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49027592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-frontmatter3-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-frontmatter3-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-frontmatter3-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41948360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the performance of modal objects","authors":"Magdalena Kaufmann","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Friederike Moltmann’s target paper on object-based truthmaker semantics (in the following TSNL) offers a concise and well-written summary of the framework’s main ideas and merits specifically for the analysis of natural language modality and attitude ascriptions. In the following, I focus on select aspects of her proposal for deontic and teleological modality as well as imperative clauses, taking into account also their behavior under disjunctions. By introducing special modal and attitudinal objects, the framework closes a gap in standard models for natural language, which are hard-pressed to come up with suitable meanings for intuitively ‘modal’ nouns like obligation, permission, need, belief, report and the like. Notably, providing interpretations for nouns of this sort, taking into account speaker intuitions, philosophical insights, and the nouns’ semantic and syntactic relations to other expressions of the language, leads to new semantic accounts for better studied expressions like modal verbs, illocutionary predicates, or imperative clauses. In some sense, the approach could be seen as a more radical push in the direction of where Kratzer’s standard work on modals has taken us. While accessibility relations and valuation (i.e., what is true at individual worlds) are independent in classical modal logic, for Kratzer, accessibility is derived from non-modal properties of the individual worlds (the actual content of some relevant body of beliefs, laws, rules, desires, etc.). For Moltmann, modal meanings are grounded in the existence of suitable, largely abstract objects. The ontology is enriched with objects corresponding to illocutionary acts, illocutionary products, cognitive acts, cognitive products, modal states and modal products. The resulting inventory can be used to address various problems associated with modality and attitude expressions, for instance the distinction between weak and strong (or ‘heavy’ and ‘light’) permission, a longstanding issue for classical deontic logic. Classical deontic logic and the standard Kratzerian treatment that builds on it, analyze deontic possibility as compatibility with the deontically optimal worlds (among the ones verifying the relevant circumstances). This falls short of capturing the inuitive difference between (1a), which can indeed convey the notion of compatibility, and (1b), which ascribes to Mary something more like a right or an entitlement, which, for instance, the relevant authority has to revoke explicitly and cannot simply overwrite by imposing a conflicting obligation.","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"253 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43747777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Content, modals and attitude predicates","authors":"G. Ramchand","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"307 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48468106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modal objects or modal quantifiers?","authors":"Aynat Rubinstein, P. Portner","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"331 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49042636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attitudinal and modal objects: A view from the syntax-semantics interface","authors":"K. Moulton","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"297 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46943736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategies of inquiry: Focus and contrastive topic in polar questions","authors":"Shumian Ye","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0008","url":null,"abstract":"The target paper by Beste Kamali and Manfred Krifka, “Focus and contrastive topic in questions and answers, with particular reference to Turkish”, draws a fundamental distinction between focus and contrastive topic: Whereas focus introduces disjunctive alternatives as a restriction on the input context, contrastive topic introduces conjunctive alternatives as a restriction on the input context. For instance, a polar question with focus like (1a) presupposes the disjoined question in (1b). In Commitment Space Semantics, the disjoined polar question is equivalent to a constituent question whose wh-constituent triggers disjunctive alternatives.","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"133 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45749109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An inquisitive stroll in commitment spaces","authors":"Edgar Onea","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"The target article by Kamali and Krifka proposes a novel theory of focus and contrastive topic within the framework of Commitment Space Semantics. The key intuitions are similar to some prominent ideas discussed in the literature. Focus in an utterance> signals that the discourse state it updates involves an open question that is congruent to >, as chiefly advocated in Roberts (1996) and Beaver and Clark (2008). Contrastive topic signals that there are additional open questions of a certain type in discourse, as suggested, e. g. in Büring (2003). However, the theory is ontologically more appealing than its competitors because it does not require complicated structures built from questions to explicate notions of information structure such as sets of questions and entire trees of questions; entities whose ontological and logical properties are little understood. Moreover, the way the compositional system is set up is such that all important aspects of the Turkish data (which widely transpose to other discourse-configurational languages such as Hungarian) appear to fall in place very naturally and elegantly. Given my record on information structure, e. g. Velleman et al. (2012) or Onea (2016), I have no choice but to applaud the main ideas of the paper. In fact, this would be an ideal point at which I could stop this comment, as I have nothing of substance to add to the applause. Instead, I ended up intrigued by the properties of the theoretical framework the authors outline in the target article. In the continuation of this paper, I present the insights that I gathered. In particular, in Section 1, I suggest a simpler notation for Commitment Space Semantics that I dub Alternative Commitment Space Semantics (not because it is another theory, but because we need a name for the notational variant). The point of this exercise is to allow simpler comparison to other, more familiar frameworks. In Section 2, I briefly compare Commitment Space Semantics to a particular implementation of Inquisitive Semantics as a framework to represent discourse updates, questions and focus as suggested in Onea (2016). Finally, in Section 3, I make a small observation about the way focus-congruence works in commitment space semantics as compared to Alternative Semantics (Hamblin 1973; Rooth 1992) and question based discourse models following Roberts (1996).","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"103 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43126418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Banning the disjunction of speech acts","authors":"Ingo Reich","doi":"10.1515/tl-2020-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2020-0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46148,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Linguistics","volume":"46 1","pages":"113 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/tl-2020-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42471840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}