Semantics and Pragmatics

Context Dynamics

3:1-37

Probabilities and logic in implicature computation

Two puzzles with embedded disjunction

4:1-48

Putting oughts together

5:1-53

Using the Anna Karenina Principle to explain why cause favors negative-sentiment complements

6:1-48

Imperatives in a dynamic pragmatics

7:EA

A square of necessities

X-marking weak and strong necessity modals

8:1-54

A semantic universal for modality

1:1-20

Pair-list answers to questions with plural definites

2:1-23

“More is up” for domain restriction in ASL

1:1-52

Referential transparency as the proper treatment for quantification

4:1-58

Logic and conversation

The case of free choice

5:1-60

Keep only strong

6:1-53

Exceptional wide scope of bare nominals

7:EA

Pragmatic reasoning and semantic convention

A case study on gradable adjectives

9:1-64

Attentional Pragmatics

A new pragmatic approach to exhaustivity

10:1-51

Two paths to habituality

The semantics of habitual mode in Tlingit

11:EA

Probabilistic modeling of rational communication with conditionals

13:1-59

Belief or consequences

14:1-51

Presupposition projection as a scope phenomenon

15:1-39

Alternatives and attention in language and reasoning

A reply to Mascarenhas & Picat 2019

2:1-31

Varieties of Hurford disjunctions

3:1-25

The role of Alternatives in the interpretation of scalars and numbers

Insights from the inference task

8:1-15

Scorekeeping in a chess game

12:1-20

Fine-grained semantics for attitude reports

1:1-45

Formal properties of now revisited

3:1-49

Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages

A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle

5:1-31

A variably exhaustive and scalar focus particle and pragmatic focus concord in Burmese

7:1-54

The landscape of speech reporting

8:1-54

The most, the fewest and the least

On the relative readings of quantity superlatives

9:1-51

Anyone might but everyone won’t

10:1-27

Presuppositional exhaustification

11:1-48

Actualistic interpretations in French

12:1-56

Negative free choice

13:1-54

NPIs, intervention, and collectivity

2:1-24

Does intonation automatically strengthen scalar implicatures?

4:1-30

On believing and hoping whether

6:1-21

Understanding focus

Pitch, placement and coherence

1:1-53

Unveiling multiple wh- free relative clauses and their functional wh-words

2:EA

Numerals and the theory of number

3:1-57

A preference semantics for imperatives

6:1-60

Multi-modal meaning

An empirically-founded process algebra approach

8:1-55

Conjectural questions

The case of German verb-final wohl questions

9:1-54

Reciprocity

Anaphora, scope, and quantification

10:1-62

Predicting the end

Epistemic change in Romance

11:1-50

Weak necessity without weak possibility

The composition of modal strength distinctions in Javanese

12:1-55

Expressions in focus

13:1-52

Compositional trace conversion

14:1-48

Similative plurality and the nature of alternatives

15:1-44

Intervention in deontic reasoning

16:1-50

Numeral differential constructions in Arabic

17:1-45

Non-informative assertions

The case of non-optional wh-in-situ

18:1-54

Eavesdropping

What is it good for?

19:1-35

The logic of Quantifier Raising

20:1-40

Evidential meaning and (not-)at-issueness

4:1-26

Alternative questions

Distinguishing between negated and complementary disjuncts

5:1-29

The semantics and pragmatics of nouns in concealed questions

7:1-27

Donkeys under discussion

1:1-51

Modal interpretation of tense in subjunctive conditionals

2:1-34

Different again

3:1-56

Learnability and semantic universals

4:1-39

Distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe

5:1-65

The proprial article and the semantics of names

6:1-36

The discourse commitments of illocutionary reportatives

8:1-53

Coercion by modification

The adaptive capacities of event-sensitive adnominal modifiers

9:1-43

Experimental studies on it-clefts and predicate interpretation

11:1-56

What ifs

14:1-62

Attitudes in discourse

Italian polar questions and the particle mica

16:1-55

Pluralities across categories and plural projection

17:1-55

Polarity reversals under sluicing

18:1-55

Know whether and -ever free relative clauses

19:1-53

Free choice and homogeneity

23:1-53

On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences

7:1-24

Where is the destructive update problem?

10:1-24

Filtering free choice

12:EA

Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery

13:1-12

Polarity particles revisited

15:1-25

Sluicing on free choice

20:1-22

Presupposing counterfactuality

21:1-23

Vagueness, contextualism, and ellipsis

22:1-15

Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations

1:1-52

Counterfactual de se

2:1-47

That’s not quite it

An experimental investigation of (non‑)exhaustivity in clefts

3:1-49

Disentangling two distinct notions of NEG raising

5:1-21

Might do better: Flexible relativism and the QUD

7:1-49

A formal semantics for situated conversation

10:1-59

Free choice and distribution over disjunction

The case of free choice ability

4:1-13

Reconstructing the syntax of focus operators

6:1-30

The case of the missing ‘If’

Accessibility relations in Stalnaker’s theory of conditionals

8:1-6

Complex sentential operators refute unrestricted Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents

9:1-9