Semantics and Pragmatics, founded in 2007 and first published in 2008, is a Diamond Open Access journal published by the Linguistic Society of America.

Current Issue

Vol. 15 (2022)

Published: 2022-01-19

Main Articles

“More is up” for domain restriction in ASL

Kathryn Davidson, Deanna Gagne

1:EA

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Referential transparency as the proper treatment for quantification

Andy Lücking, Jonathan Ginzburg

4:EA

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Logic and conversation: The case of free choice

Maria Aloni

5:EA

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Keep only strong

Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Aron Hirsch

6:EA

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Exceptional wide scope of bare nominals

Bert Le Bruyn, Henriëtte de Swart

7:EA

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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

Alternatives and attention in language and reasoning: A reply to Mascarenhas & Picat 2019

Nadine Bade, Léo Picat, WooJin Chung, Salvador Mascarenhas

2:EA

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Varieties of Hurford disjunctions

Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli

3:EA

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Previous Five Years (2021-2017)

Vol. 14 (2021)

Published: 2021-03-02

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Fine-grained semantics for attitude reports

Harvey Lederman

1:EA

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Formal properties of now revisited

Una Stojnić, Daniel Altshuler

3:EA

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Explaining gaps in the logical lexicon of natural languages: A decision-theoretic perspective on the square of Aristotle

Émile Enguehard, Benjamin Spector

5:EA

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

Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Keely New

7:EA

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The landscape of speech reporting

Corien Bary, Emar Maier

8:EA

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The most, the fewest and the least: On the relative readings of quantity superlatives

E. Cameron Wilson

9:EA

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Anyone might but everyone won’t

Ana Arregui

10:EA

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Presuppositional exhaustification

Itai Bassi, Guillermo Del Pinal, Uli Sauerland

11:EA

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Actualistic interpretations in French

Vincent Homer

12:EA

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Negative free choice

Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo, Richard Breheny

13:EA

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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

NPIs, intervention, and collectivity

Brian Buccola, Luka Crnič

2:EA

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Does intonation automatically strengthen scalar implicatures?

John Michael Tomlinson, Jr., Camilo R. Ronderos

4:EA

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On believing and hoping whether

Aaron Steven White

6:EA

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Vol. 13 (2020)

Published: 2020-04-04

Main Articles

Understanding focus: Pitch, placement and coherence

Julian J Schlöder, Alex Lascarides

1:1-53

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

Ivano Caponigro, Anamaria Fălăuș

2:EA

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Numerals and the theory of number

Luisa Martí

3:1-57

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A preference semantics for imperatives

William B Starr

6:EA

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Multi-modal meaning – An empirically-founded process algebra approach

Hannes Rieser, Insa Lawler

8:1-55

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Conjectural questions: The case of German verb-final wohl questions

Regine Eckardt

9:EA

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Reciprocity: Anaphora, scope, and quantification

Dag Trygve Truslew Haug, Mary Dalrymple

10:1-62

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Predicting the end: Epistemic change in Romance

Patricia Amaral, Fabio Del Prete

11:1-50

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Weak necessity without weak possibility: The composition of modal strength distinctions in Javanese

Jozina Vander Klok, Vera Hohaus

12:EA

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Expressions in focus

Poppy Mankowitz

13:1-52

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Compositional trace conversion

Robert Pasternak

14:1-48

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Similative plurality and the nature of alternatives

Ryan Walter Smith

15:1-44

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Intervention in deontic reasoning

WooJin Chung

16:1-50

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Numeral differential constructions in Arabic

Peter Hallman

17:EA

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Non-informative assertions: The case of non-optional wh-in-situ

María Biezma

18:EA

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Eavesdropping: What is it good for?

Jonathan Phillips, Matthew Mandelkern

19:1-35

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The logic of Quantifier Raising

Chris Barker

20:EA

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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

Evidential meaning and (not-)at-issueness

Natasha Korotkova

4:1-26

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Alternative questions: Distinguishing between negated and complementary disjuncts

Andrea Beltrama, Erlinde Meertens, Maribel Romero

5:1-29

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The semantics and pragmatics of nouns in concealed questions

Hana Kalpak

7:1-27

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Vol. 12 (2019)

Published: 2019-11-14

Main Articles

Donkeys under discussion

Lucas Champollion, Dylan Bumford, Robert Henderson

1:EA

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Modal interpretation of tense in subjunctive conditionals

John Mackay

2:EA

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Different again

Pritty Patel-Grosz, Sigrid Beck

3:EA

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Learnability and semantic universals

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, Jakub Szymanik

4:EA

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Distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe

Alexandre Cremers, Floris Roelofsen, Wataru Uegaki

5:EA

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The proprial article and the semantics of names

Patrick Muñoz

6:EA

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The discourse commitments of illocutionary reportatives

Martina T Faller

8:EA

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Coercion by modification — The adaptive capacities of event-sensitive adnominal modifiers

Sebastian Buecking, Claudia Maienborn

9:EA

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Experimental Studies on it-Clefts and Predicate Interpretation

Agata Renans, Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

11:EA

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What ifs

Justin Bledin, Kyle Rawlins

14:EA

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Attitudes in discourse: Italian polar questions and the particle mica

Ilaria Frana, Kyle Rawlins

16:EA

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Pluralities across categories and plural projection

Viola Schmitt

17:EA

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Polarity reversals under sluicing

Margaret Kroll

18:EA

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Know whether and -ever free relative clauses

Maayan Abenina-Adar

19:EA

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Free choice and homogeneity

Simon Goldstein

23:EA

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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

On the grammatical source of adjective ordering preferences

Gregory Scontras, Judith Degen, Noah D. Goodman

7:EA

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Where is the destructive update problem?

Simon Charlow

10:EA

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Filtering free choice

Jacopo Romoli, Paolo Santorio

12:EA

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Anankastic conditionals are still a mystery

Milo Phillips-Brown

13:EA

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Polarity particles revisited

Donka F. Farkas, Floris Roelofsen

15:EA

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Sluicing on free choice

Melissa Fusco

20:EA

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Presupposing counterfactuality

Julia Zakkou

21:EA

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Vagueness, contextualism, and ellipsis

Paul Elbourne

22:EA

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Vol. 11 (2018)

Published: 2018-02-09

Main Articles

Symmetric predicates and the semantics of reciprocal alternations

Yoad Winter

1:EA

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Counterfactual de se

Hazel Pearson

2:EA

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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

3:EA

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Disentangling two distinct notions of NEG raising

Chris Collins, Paul M Postal

5:EA

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Might do better: Flexible relativism and the QUD

Bob Beddor, Andy Egan

7:EA

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A formal semantics for situated conversation

Julie Hunter, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides

10:EA

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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

Free choice and distribution over disjunction: the case of free choice ability

Rick Nouwen

4:EA

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Reconstructing the syntax of focus operators

Liz Smeets, Michael Wagner

6:EA

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

Matthew Mandelkern

8:EA

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Complex sentential operators refute unrestricted Simplification of Disjunctive Antecedents

Daniel Lassiter

9:EA

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Vol. 10 (2017)

Published: 2017-03-30

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A note on (Strawson) entailment

Yael Sharvit

1:1-38

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Events, discourse representations and temporal reference

Hans Kamp

2:1-68

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The preposition at from a spatial language, cognition, and information systems perspective

Maria Vasardani, Lesley Fiona Stirling, Stephan Winter

3:EA

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Lessons from Sobel sequences

Malte Willer

4:1-57

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Pluractionality, iconicity, and scope in French Sign Language

Jeremy Kuhn, Valentina Aristodemo

6:1-49

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Super monsters I: Attitude and Action Role Shift in sign language

Philippe Schlenker

9:EA

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A unified non monstrous semantics for third person pronouns

Fabio Del Prete, Sandro Zucchi

10:EA

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Conflict, cheap talk, and Jespersen’s cycle

Christopher Ahern, Robin Clark

11:EA

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Super monsters II: Role Shift, iconicity and quotation in sign language

Philippe Schlenker

12:EA

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Probability and implicatures: A unified account of the scalar effects of disjunction under modals

Paolo Santorio, Jacopo Romoli

13:1-61

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Must φ is felicitous only if φ is not known

Daniel Goodhue

14:EA

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Or what?

María Biezma, Kyle Rawlins

16:EA

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The Limit Assumption

Stefan Kaufmann

18:1-29

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Puzzling response particles: An experimental study on the German answering system

Berry Claus, A. Marlijn Meijer, Sophie Repp, Manfred Krifka

19:EA

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The lexical pragmatics of count-mass polysemy

Ingrid L. Falkum

20:EA

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Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

A note on temporal reference, anaphora, and Kamp's motivations for DRT

Barbara H Partee

2n:1-4

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Deriving the positive polarity behavior of plain disjunction

Andreea Cristina Nicolae

5:1-24

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Parsing and presuppositions in the calculation of local contexts

Matt Mandelkern, Jacopo Romoli

7:EA

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Quantification over alternative intensions

Thomas Ede Zimmermann

8:1-25

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The scope of nominal quantifiers in comparative clauses

Rick Nouwen, Jakub Dotlačil

15:1-22

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Analyzing imperfective games

Igor Yanovich

17:1-23

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