Isabelle Charnavel
Isabelle Charnavel
This article argues for a logophoric analysis of Free Indirect Discourse (FID). FID is descriptively a hybrid between Direct Discourse (DD) and Indirect Discourse (ID). Recent studies largely agree on a DD-based analysis of FID by relying o...
Projection or admittance? Presupposition accommodation and the Karttunen calculus [0.03%]
投影还是承认？预设接纳与Karttunen演算
Yoad Winter
Yoad Winter
This paper examines two approaches to presuppositions: one viewing them as inferences projecting from sentences under negation and other logical operators, and another defining them as admittance conditions of utterances. Neither approach f...
Naomi Francis
Naomi Francis
This paper explores a puzzling polarity-based asymmetry in the use of even in sentences that deny presuppositions. It argues that this asymmetry is produced by the interaction of even's controversial additive presupposition with the alterna...
Tue Trinh
Tue Trinh
This paper discusses a set of observations, many of which are novel, concerning differences between the adjectival modals certain and possible and their adverbial counterparts certainly and possibly. It argues that the observations can be d...
Luca Incurvati,Giorgio Sbardolini
Luca Incurvati
We discuss a well-known puzzle about the lexicalization of logical operators in natural language, in particular connectives and quantifiers. Of the many logically possible operators, only few appear in the lexicon of natural languages: the ...
Manuel Križ,Benjamin Spector
Manuel Križ
Plural definite descriptions across many languages display two well-known properties. First, they can give rise to so-called non-maximal readings, in the sense that they 'allow for exceptions' (Mary read the books on the reading list, in so...
Reinhard Muskens
Reinhard Muskens
There are two kinds of semantic theories of anaphora. Some, such as Heim's File Change Semantics, Groenendijk and Stokhof's Dynamic Predicate Logic, or Muskens' Compositional DRT (CDRT), seem to require full coindexing of anaphora and their...
Lyn Frazier,Charles Clifton
Lyn Frazier
VP-ellipsis generally requires a syntactically matching antecedent. However, many documented examples exist where the antecedent is not appropriate. Kehler (2000, 2002) proposed an elegant theory which predicts a syntactic antecedent for an...