Semantics and Pragmatics
A Journal of the Linguistic Society of America

Vol 13 (2020)

Main Articles

Understanding focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence Julian J Schlöder, Alex Lascarides

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Unveiling multiple wh- free relative clauses and their functional wh-words Ivano Caponigro, Anamaria Fălăuș

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Numerals and the theory of number Luisa Martí

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A preference semantics for imperatives William B Starr

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Multi-modal meaning – An empirically-founded process algebra approach Hannes Rieser, Insa Lawler

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Conjectural questions: The case of German verb-final wohl questions Regine Eckardt

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Reciprocity: Anaphora, scope, and quantification Dag Trygve Truslew Haug, Mary Dalrymple

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Predicting the end: Epistemic change in Romance Patricia Amaral, Fabio Del Prete

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Weak necessity without weak possibility: The composition of modal strength distinctions in Javanese Jozina Vander Klok, Vera Hohaus

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Expressions in Focus Poppy Mankowitz

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Compositional trace conversion Robert Pasternak

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Similative plurality and the nature of alternatives Ryan Walter Smith

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Intervention in deontic reasoning WooJin Chung

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Numeral differential constructions in Arabic Peter Hallman

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Non-informative assertions: The case of non-optional wh-in-situ María Biezma

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Eavesdropping: What is it good for? Jonathan Phillips, Matthew Mandelkern

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The logic of Quantifier Raising Chris Barker

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Evidential meaning and (not-)at-issueness Natasha Korotkova

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Alternative Questions: Distinguishing between Negated and Complementary Disjuncts. Andrea Beltrama, Erlinde Meertens, Maribel Romero

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The semantics and pragmatics of nouns in concealed questions Hana Kalpak

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Vol 12 (2019)

Main Articles

Donkeys under discussion Lucas Champollion, Dylan Bumford, Robert Henderson

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Modal interpretation of tense in subjunctive conditionals John Mackay

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Different again Pritty Patel-Grosz, Sigrid Beck

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Learnability and semantic universals Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Jakub Szymanik

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Distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe Alexandre Cremers, Floris Roelofsen, Wataru Uegaki

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The proprial article and the semantics of names Patrick Muñoz

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The discourse commitments of illocutionary reportatives Martina T Faller

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Coercion by modification — The adaptive capacities of event-sensitive adnominal modifiers Sebastian Buecking, Claudia Maienborn

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Experimental Studies on it-Clefts and Predicate Interpretation Agata Renans, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

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What ifs Justin Bledin, Kyle Rawlins

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Attitudes in discourse: Italian polar questions and the particle mica Ilaria Frana, Kyle Rawlins

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Pluralities across categories and plural projection Viola Schmitt

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Polarity reversals under sluicing Margaret Kroll

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Know whether and -ever free relative clauses Maayan Abenina-Adar

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Free choice and homogeneity Simon Goldstein

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On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences Gregory Scontras, Judith Degen, Noah D. Goodman

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Where is the destructive update problem? Simon Charlow

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Filtering free choice Jacopo Romoli, Paolo Santorio

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Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery Milo Phillips-Brown

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Polarity particles revisited Donka F. Farkas, Floris Roelofsen

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Sluicing on free choice Melissa Fusco

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Presupposing counterfactuality Julia Zakkou

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Vagueness, contextualism, and ellipsis Paul Elbourne

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Vol 11 (2018)

Main Articles

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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A formal semantics for situated conversation Julie Hunter, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides

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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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A note on temporal reference, anaphora, and Kamp's motivations for DRT Barbara H Partee

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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)

Main Articles

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 note on the architecture of presupposition Matthew Mandelkern

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ISSN: 1937-8912 Journal doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp