Semantics and Pragmatics


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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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

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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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

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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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

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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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

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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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

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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A problem for Predicativism not solved by Predicativism
Anders J. Schoubye
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