All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. This volume brings together experts from semantics and pragmatics to bring forward the study of interconnections between these three mechanisms. The contributions develop new insights into important empirical phenomena; for example, approximation, free choice, accommodation, and exhaustivity effects.
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SIGRID BECK Professor of Linguistics, University of Tubingen, Germany REGINE ECKARDT Professor of English, Gottingen University, Germany DANNY FOX Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA GERHARD JA GER Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld, Germany MANFRED KRIFKA Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Director of ZAS (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin), Germany ORIN PERCUS Faculty of the University of Nantes, France PHILIPPE SCHLENKER Professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, USA and is affiliated with Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) in Paris, France BENJAMIN SPECTOR Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions |
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12 | (22) |
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12 | (2) |
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The presupposition of again |
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14 | (8) |
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Quantifier dependent again |
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22 | (9) |
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Conclusions and consequences |
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31 | (3) |
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34 | (37) |
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34 | (4) |
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Boolean and mis-behaved `or' |
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38 | (8) |
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Explicit existential quantification and `or' |
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46 | (7) |
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53 | (9) |
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Interactions between different licensers |
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62 | (5) |
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67 | (4) |
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Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures |
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71 | (50) |
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Some background on scalar implicatures |
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72 | (8) |
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The problem of free choice permission |
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80 | (5) |
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Other free choice inferences |
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85 | (4) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (5) |
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An alternative perspective |
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95 | (7) |
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Recursive exhaustification and FC |
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102 | (3) |
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Other existential quantifiers |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (10) |
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Partial Variables and Specificity |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (11) |
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136 | (14) |
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Partial variables and presuppositions |
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150 | (4) |
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154 | (9) |
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Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap |
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163 | (15) |
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163 | (2) |
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Attempts to explain double negatives |
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165 | (3) |
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Pragmatic strengthening within an epistemic theory of vagueness |
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168 | (7) |
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175 | (3) |
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A Pragmatic Constraint on Adverbial Quantification |
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178 | (36) |
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A possible line of argumentation, and reasons to reject it |
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178 | (5) |
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A constraint on the use of sentences with adverbial quantifiers |
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183 | (8) |
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Some consequences of this constraint |
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191 | (10) |
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Consequences for `semantic partition' |
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201 | (5) |
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206 | (8) |
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Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection |
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214 | (29) |
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The dynamic turn and the Transparency theory |
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215 | (8) |
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The projection problem: basic results of the Transparency theory |
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223 | (9) |
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The triggering problem: against a lexical treatment |
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232 | (4) |
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236 | (7) |
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Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures |
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A puzzle about plural indefinites |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (6) |
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251 | (6) |
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257 | (7) |
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An enigma that confirms the hypothesis: the modal presupposition induced by plural indefinites |
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264 | (3) |
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267 | (4) |
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271 | (11) |
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SIGRID BECK Professor of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany REGINE ECKARDT Professor of English, Göttingen University, Germany DANNY FOX Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA GERHARD JÄGER Professor of Linguistics, University of Bielefeld, Germany MANFRED KRIFKA Professor of General Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin, and Director of ZAS (Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin), Germany ORIN PERCUS Faculty of the University of Nantes, France PHILIPPE SCHLENKER Professor at UCLA's Department of Linguistics, USA and is affiliated with Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS) in Paris, France BENJAMIN SPECTOR Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
