Semantics and Pragmatics

“More is up” for domain restriction in ASL

1:EA

Referential transparency as the proper treatment for quantification

4:EA

Logic and conversation

The case of free choice

5:EA

Keep only strong

6:EA

Exceptional wide scope of bare nominals

7:EA

Pragmatic reasoning and semantic convention

A case study on gradable adjectives

9:EA

Attentional Pragmatics

A new pragmatic approach to exhaustivity

10:EA

Two paths to habituality

The semantics of habitual mode in Tlingit

11:EA

Probabilistic modeling of rational communication with conditionals

13:EA

Belief or consequences

14:EA

Presupposition projection as a scope phenomenon

15:EA

Alternatives and attention in language and reasoning

A reply to Mascarenhas & Picat 2019

2:EA

Varieties of Hurford disjunctions

3:EA

The role of Alternatives in the interpretation of scalars and numbers

Insights from the inference task

8:EA

Scorekeeping in a chess game

12:EA

Fine-grained semantics for attitude reports

1:1-45

Formal properties of now revisited

3:EA

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:EA

Anyone might but everyone won’t

10:EA

Presuppositional exhaustification

11:1-48

Actualistic interpretations in French

12:1-56

Negative free choice

13:EA

NPIs, intervention, and collectivity

2:1-24

Does intonation automatically strengthen scalar implicatures?

4:EA

On believing and hoping whether

6:EA

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:EA

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:EA

Modal interpretation of tense in subjunctive conditionals

2:EA

Different again

3:EA

Learnability and semantic universals

4:EA

Distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe

5:EA

The proprial article and the semantics of names

6:EA

The discourse commitments of illocutionary reportatives

8:EA

Coercion by modification

The adaptive capacities of event-sensitive adnominal modifiers

9:EA

Experimental Studies on it-Clefts and Predicate Interpretation

11:EA

What ifs

14:EA

Attitudes in discourse

Italian polar questions and the particle mica

16:EA

Pluralities across categories and plural projection

17:EA

Polarity reversals under sluicing

18:EA

Know whether and -ever free relative clauses

19:EA

Free choice and homogeneity

23:EA

On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences

7:EA

Where is the destructive update problem?

10:EA

Filtering free choice

12:EA

Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery

13:EA

Polarity particles revisited

15:EA

Sluicing on free choice

20:EA

Presupposing counterfactuality

21:1-23

Vagueness, contextualism, and ellipsis

22:1-15

Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations

1:EA

Counterfactual de se

2:EA

That’s not quite it

An experimental investigation of (non‑)exhaustivity in clefts

3:EA

Disentangling two distinct notions of NEG raising

5:EA

Might do better: Flexible relativism and the QUD

7:EA

A formal semantics for situated conversation

10:EA

Free choice and distribution over disjunction

The case of free choice ability

4:EA

Reconstructing the syntax of focus operators

6:EA

The case of the missing ‘If’: Accessibility relations in Stalnaker’s theory of conditionals

8:EA

Complex sentential operators refute unrestricted Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents

9:EA