{"title":"A revised, gradability-based semantics for even","authors":"Yael Greenberg","doi":"10.1007/s11050-017-9140-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-017-9140-0","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concentrates on giving precise content to the general wisdom on the scalar presupposition of <i>even,</i> according to which the prejacent of <i>even</i>, <i>p,</i> is stronger than its relevant focus alternatives, <i>q.</i> To that end I first examine both familiar challenges for the popular ‘comparative likelihood’ view of the ‘stronger than’ relation, as well as novel challenges, having to do with the context dependency of even (with entailed and non-entailed alternatives) and with its sensitivity to standards of comparison. To overcome these challenges and to account for the full range of data I develop a revised, ‘gradability-based’ scalar presupposition for <i>even,</i> which differs from the ‘comparative likelihood’ one in several respects: instead of directly comparing degrees to which propositions (namely <i>p</i> and <i>q</i>) are more or less likely, we compare extents to which non-focus entities x in <i>p</i> and <i>q</i> (in the accessible <i>p</i> worlds and the exhaustified <i>q</i> worlds) exceed the salient standard on a scale associated with a contextually supplied gradable property G. To capture cases where information about contrastive topics is crucial for fixing two distinct standards on G, I follow theories which view <i>even</i> as a general, two-place alternative-sensitive operator, allowing it to associate with both focus and contrastive topics. Beyond the ability to account for a large range of intricate felicity variations and inferences found with <i>even,</i> a more general contribution of the paper lies in showing the linguistic relevance of tools originally developed in the literature on gradable predicates to the semantics of scalar alternative–sensitive particles.","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140887532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experiments on the acceptability and possible readings of questions embedded under emotive-factives","authors":"Alexandre Cremers, E. Chemla","doi":"10.1007/s11050-017-9135-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-017-9135-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"25 1","pages":"223 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-017-9135-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52482859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the form-meaning mapping in the acquisition of English and Japanese measure phrase comparatives","authors":"Tomoe Arii, Kristen Syrett, Takuya Goro","doi":"10.1007/s11050-016-9129-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9129-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"25 1","pages":"53 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-016-9129-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42872807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On how verification tasks are related to verification procedures: a reply to Kotek et al.","authors":"Tim Hunter, J. Lidz, Darko Odic, Alexis Wellwood","doi":"10.1007/s11050-016-9130-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9130-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"25 1","pages":"91 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-016-9130-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43633981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raj Singh, K. Wexler, Andrea Astle-Rahim, D. Kamawar, D. Fox
{"title":"Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development","authors":"Raj Singh, K. Wexler, Andrea Astle-Rahim, D. Kamawar, D. Fox","doi":"10.1007/s11050-016-9126-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9126-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"24 1","pages":"305 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-016-9126-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52482815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Past interpretation and graded tense in Medumba","authors":"Anne Mucha","doi":"10.1007/s11050-016-9128-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9128-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"25 1","pages":"1 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-016-9128-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45855053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The semantic ingredients of imperfectivity in progressives, habituals, and counterfactuals","authors":"Marcelo Ferreira","doi":"10.1007/s11050-016-9127-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9127-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"24 1","pages":"353 - 397"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-016-9127-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52482841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free choice is a form of dependence","authors":"Magdalena Kaufmann","doi":"10.1007/s11050-016-9125-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9125-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"24 1","pages":"247 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-016-9125-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52482790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free versus bound variables and the taxonomy of gaps","authors":"Luis Vicente","doi":"10.1007/s11050-016-9123-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9123-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"24 1","pages":"203 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11050-016-9123-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52482743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}