Semantics and Pragmatics


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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Disentangling two distinct notions of NEG raising
Chris Collins, Paul M Postal
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Might do better: Flexible relativism and the QUD
Bob Beddor, Andy Egan
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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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The case of the missing ‘If’: Accessibility relations in Stalnaker’s theory of conditionals
Matthew Mandelkern
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Complex sentential operators refute unrestricted Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents
Daniel Lassiter
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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
Matt Mandelkern, Jacopo Romoli
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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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5:1-61
How similar is similar enough?
Michela Ippolito
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6:1-60
A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context
Clemens Mayr, Jacopo Romoli
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7:1-48
Anankastic conditionals are just conditionals
Cleo Condoravdi, Sven Lauer
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8:1-69
Modality and embedded temporal operators
Peter Klecha
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9:1-55
Comparing exhaustivity operators
Benjamin Spector
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11:1-33
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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17:1-63
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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4:1-23
At least and ignorance: A reply to Coppock & Brochhagen 2013
Bernhard Schwarz
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10:1-17
The history of the use of ⟦.⟧-notation in natural language semantics
Brian Rabern
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12:1-10
A problem for Predicativism not solved by Predicativism
Anders J. Schoubye
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18:1-11
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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2:1-35
The role of givenness, presupposition, and prosody in Czech word order: An experimental study
Radek Šimík, Marta Wierzba
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3:1-103
Neg-raising and positive polarity: The view from modals
Vincent Homer
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4:1-88
On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary
Sarah Moss
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5:1-81
The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation
M. Ryan Bochnak
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6:1-48
Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality
Guillermo Del Pinal
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7:1-53
The ingredients of comparison: The semantics of the excessive construction in Japanese
Xiao Li
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8:1-38
Incremental quantification and the dynamics of pair-list phenomena
Dylan Bumford
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9:1-70
A "de-Fregean" semantics (and neo-Gricean pragmatics) for modified and unmodified numerals
Christopher Kennedy
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10:1-44
Investigating the distribution of some (but not all ) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods
Judith Degen
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11:1-55
Moral asymmetries and the semantics of many
Paul Egré, Florian Cova
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13:1-45
The semantic and pragmatic underpinnings of grammaticalization paths: The progressive to imperfective shift
Ashwini Deo
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14:1-52

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Actuality and fake tense in conditionals
John Mackay
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12:1-12

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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2:1-53
Bound 'de re' pronouns and the LFs of attitude reports
Simon Charlow, Yael Sharvit
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3:1-43
Contrast and the structure of discourse
Maziar Toosarvandani
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4:1-57
Dependent indefinites and their post-suppositions
Robert Henderson
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6:1-58
Mixed quotation: The grammar of apparently transparent opacity
Emar Maier
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7:1-67
Disfluencies as intra-utterance dialogue moves
Jonathan Ginzburg, Raquel Fernández, David Schlangen
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9:1-64
Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data
Joshua Knobe, Seth Yalcin
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10:1-21
Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity
Benjamin Spector
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11:1-61

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Cancelling the Maxim of Quantity: Another challenge for a Gricean theory of Scalar Implicatures
Danny Fox
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5:1-20
Typicality made familiar: A commentary on Geurts and van Tiel (2013)
Chris Cummins
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8:1-15

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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2:1-62
Raising and resolving issues with scalar modifiers
Elizabeth Coppock, Thomas Brochhagen
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3:1-57
'And' or 'or': General use coordination in ASL
Kathryn Davidson
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4:1-44
It's that, and that's it! Exhaustivity and homogeneity presuppositions in clefts (and definites)
Daniel Büring, Manuel Kriz
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6:1-29
Epistemics and attitudes
Pranav Anand, Valentine Hacquard
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8:1-59
Embedded scalars
Bart Geurts, Bob van Tiel
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9:1-37
Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
Márta Abrusán, Kriszta Szendrői
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10:1-43

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A note on presupposition accommodation
Roni Katzir, Raj Singh
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5:1-16
N-words and sentential negation: Evidence from polarity particles and VP ellipsis
Adrian Brasoveanu, Donka Farkas, Floris Roelofsen
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7:1-33

Vol 5 (2012)

Main Articles

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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3:1-58
Counterfactual attitudes and multi-centered worlds
Dilip Ninan
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5:1-57
Information Structure: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics
Craige Roberts
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6:1-69
Information Structure: Afterword
Craige Roberts
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7:1-19
Contrastive topics decomposed
Michael Wagner
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8:1-54

Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

Two types of class B numeral modifiers: A reply to Nouwen 2010
Bernhard Schwarz, Brian Buccola, Michael Hamilton
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1:1-25
Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study
Valentine Hacquard, Alexis Wellwood
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4:1-29
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