Decomposing logophoric pronouns: a presuppositional account of logophoric dependencies [0.03%]
关于对数貌代词的分解及对对数貌依赖关系的预设解释
Itai Bassi,Imke Driemel,Abigail Anne Bimpeh et al.
Itai Bassi et al.
Logophoric pronouns in West African languages occur in attitude environments and are anaphorically linked to an attitude holder in a superordinate clause. This has motivated theorists to treat logophoric pronouns semantically as an obligato...
Ryan Walter Smith,Jens Hopperdietzel,Andrew Koontz-Garboden
Ryan Walter Smith
This paper proposes a type-shifting analysis of state/change-of-state lability (Koontz-Garboden et al. in Verbhood and state/change of state lability across languages, Ms., 2023): in languages with no overt inchoative morphology, a type-shi...
Word learning tasks as a window into the triggering problem for presuppositions [0.03%]
词学习任务作为预设触发问题的窗口
Nadine Bade,Philippe Schlenker,Emmanuel Chemla
Nadine Bade
In this paper, we show that native speakers spontaneously divide the complex meaning of a new word into a presuppositional component and an assertive component. These results argue for the existence of a productive triggering algorithm for ...
Mental states via possessive predication: the grammar of possessive experiencer complex predicates in Persian [0.03%]
通过领有述谓结构表达心理状态——波斯语领有经历者复合使役动词的语法
Ryan Walter Smith
Ryan Walter Smith
Persian possesses a number of stative complex predicates with dâshtan 'to have' that express certain kinds of mental state. I propose that these possessive experiencer complex predicates be given a formal semantic treatment involving posse...
Eventive modal projection: the case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses [0.03%]
事件模态投影：以西班牙语虚拟语气相对子句为例
Luis Alonso-Ovalle,Paula Menéndez-Benito,Aynat Rubinstein
Luis Alonso-Ovalle
How do modal expressions determine which possibilities they range over? According to the Modal Anchor Hypothesis (Kratzer in The language-cognition interface: Actes du 19e congrès international des linguistes, Libraire Droz, Genève, 179-1...
Poppy Mankowitz
Poppy Mankowitz
The standard contemporary semantics for 'every' predict the truth of occurrences of sentences with restrictors that denote the empty set, such as 'Every American king lives in New York'. The literature on empty restrictors has been concerne...
Salvatore Pistoia-Reda,Luca San Mauro
Salvatore Pistoia-Reda
In this paper we focus on the logicality of language, i.e. the idea that the language system contains a deductive device to exclude analytic constructions. Puzzling evidence for the logicality of language comes from acceptable contradiction...