Semantics and Pragmatics
A Journal of the Linguistic Society of America

Vol 11 (2018)

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Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations Yoad Winter

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Counterfactual de se Hazel Pearson

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That’s not quite it: An experimental investigation of (non‑)exhaustivity in clefts Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, Swantje Tönnis, Edgar Onea, Malte Zimmermann

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Free choice and distribution over disjunction: the case of free choice ability Rick Nouwen

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Reconstructing the syntax of focus operators Liz Smeets, Michael Wagner

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Vol 10 (2017)

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A note on (Strawson) entailment Yael Sharvit

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Events, discourse representations and temporal reference Hans Kamp

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The preposition at from a spatial language, cognition, and information systems perspective Maria Vasardani, Lesley Fiona Stirling, Stephan Winter

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Lessons from Sobel sequences Malte Willer

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Pluractionality, iconicity, and scope in French Sign Language Jeremy Kuhn, Valentina Aristodemo

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Super monsters I: Attitude and Action Role Shift in sign language Philippe Schlenker

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A unified non monstrous semantics for third person pronouns Fabio Del Prete, Sandro Zucchi

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Conflict, cheap talk, and Jespersen’s cycle Christopher Ahern, Robin Clark

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Super monsters II: Role Shift, iconicity and quotation in sign language Philippe Schlenker

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Probability and implicatures: A unified account of the scalar effects of disjunction under modals Paolo Santorio, Jacopo Romoli

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Must φ is felicitous only if φ is not known Daniel Goodhue

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Or what? María Biezma, Kyle Rawlins

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The Limit Assumption Stefan Kaufmann

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Puzzling response particles: An experimental study on the German answering system Berry Claus, A. Marlijn Meijer, Sophie Repp, Manfred Krifka

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The lexical pragmatics of count-mass polysemy Ingrid L. Falkum

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Deriving the positive polarity behavior of plain disjunction Andreea Cristina Nicolae

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Parsing and presuppositions in the calculation of local contexts Jacopo Romoli, Matt Mandelkern

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Quantification over alternative intensions Thomas Ede Zimmermann

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The scope of nominal quantifiers in comparative clauses Rick Nouwen, Jakub Dotlačil

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Analyzing imperfective games Igor Yanovich

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Vol 9 (2016)

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Consistency preservation in Quantity implicature: The case of at least Bernhard Schwarz

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Focus fronting, unexpectedness, and evaluative implicatures Valentina Bianchi, Giuliano Bocci, Silvio Cruschina

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Supplemental update Scott Martin

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How similar is similar enough? Michela Ippolito

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A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli

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Anankastic conditionals are just conditionals Cleo Condoravdi, Sven Lauer

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Modality and embedded temporal operators Peter Klecha

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Comparing exhaustivity operators Benjamin Spector

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Covert distributivity in algebraic event semantics Lucas Champollion

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Overt distributivity in algebraic event semantics Lucas Champollion

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What do you know about an alligator when you know the company it keeps? Katrin Erk

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Semantics and pragmatics of (not-)at-issueness in Yucatec Maya attitude reports Scott AnderBois

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Pragmatic reasoning through semantic inference Leon Bergen, Roger Levy, Noah Goodman

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Perspectives Ash Asudeh, Gianluca Giorgolo

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A novel problem for the likelihood-based semantics of even Yael Greenberg

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Comparing theories of quantifiers in than clauses: Lessons from downward-entailing differentials Nicholas Fleisher

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At least and ignorance: A reply to Coppock & Brochhagen 2013 Bernhard Schwarz

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The history of the use of ⟦.⟧-notation in natural language semantics Brian Rabern

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A problem for Predicativism not solved by Predicativism Anders J. Schoubye

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A note on the architecture of presupposition Matthew Mandelkern

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Vol 8 (2015)

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Sentence-internal "same" and its quantificational licensors: A new window into the processing of inverse scope Adrian Brasoveanu, Jakub Dotlačil

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Chimerical conditionals Itamar Francez

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The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study Radek Šimík, Marta Wierzba

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Neg-raising and positive polarity: The view from modals Vincent Homer

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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary Sarah Moss

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The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation M. Ryan Bochnak

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Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality Guillermo Del Pinal

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The ingredients of comparison: The semantics of the excessive construction in Japanese Xiao Li

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Incremental quantification and the dynamics of pair-list phenomena Dylan Bumford

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A "de-Fregean" semantics (and neo-Gricean pragmatics) for modified and unmodified numerals Christopher Kennedy

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Investigating the distribution of some (but not all ) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods Judith Degen

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Moral asymmetries and the semantics of many Paul Egré, Florian Cova

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The semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of grammaticalization paths: The progressive to imperfective shift Ashwini Deo

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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals John Mackay

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Vol 7 (2014)

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A discourse model for überhaupt Tania Rojas-Esponda

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Varieties of update Sarah E Murray

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Bound 'de re' pronouns and the LFs of attitude reports Simon Charlow, Yael Sharvit

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Contrast and the structure of discourse Maziar Toosarvandani

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Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions Robert Henderson

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Mixed quotation: The grammar of apparently transparent opacity Emar Maier

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Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves Jonathan Ginzburg, Raquel Fernández, David Schlangen

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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data Joshua Knobe, Seth Yalcin

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Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity Benjamin Spector

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Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures Danny Fox

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Typicality made familiar: A commentary on Geurts and van Tiel (2013) Chris Cummins

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Vol 6 (2013)

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Modals with a taste of the deontic Joshua Knobe, Zoltán Gendler Szabó

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Strategic conversation Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides

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Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers Elizabeth Coppock, Thomas Brochhagen

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'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL Kathryn Davidson

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It's that, and that's it! Exhaustivity and homogeneity presuppositions in clefts (and definites) Daniel Büring, Manuel Kriz

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Epistemics and attitudes Pranav Anand, Valentine Hacquard

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Embedded scalars Bart Geurts, Bob van Tiel

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Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendrői

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A note on presupposition accommodation Roni Katzir, Raj Singh

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N-words and sentential negation: Evidence from polarity particles and VP ellipsis Adrian Brasoveanu, Donka Farkas, Floris Roelofsen

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Vol 5 (2012)

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Presuppositions, provisos, and probability Daniel Lassiter

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The meaning of plural definites: A decision-theoretic approach Sophia A. Malamud

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Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds Dilip Ninan

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Information Structure: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics Craige Roberts

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Information Structure: Afterword Craige Roberts

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Contrastive topics decomposed Michael Wagner

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Two types of class B numeral modifiers: A reply to Nouwen 2010 Bernhard Schwarz, Brian Buccola, Michael Hamilton

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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study Valentine Hacquard, Alexis Wellwood

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Vol 4 (2011)

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Quantity implicatures, exhaustive interpretation, and rational conversation Michael Franke

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Explaining presupposition projection with dynamic semantics Daniel Rothschild

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Wh-islands in degree questions: A semantic approach Márta Abrusán

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Another argument for embedded scalar implicatures based on oddness in downward entailing environments Giorgio Magri

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Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: The function of participles Corien Bary, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug

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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

Exhaustivity in questions with non-factives Daniel Rothschild, Nathan Klinedinst

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