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Iconological Semantics Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Philippe Schlenker, Jonathan Lamberton
We argue that sign language requires a radical extension of formal semantics. It has long been accepted that sign language employs the same logical machinery as spoken language (occasionally making its abstract components overt), and simultaneously makes extensive use of iconicity. But the articulation between these two modules has only been discussed piecemeal. To capture it, we propose an ‘iconological
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Counting individuals and their halves Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Alan Bale, David Nicolas
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Sense-based low-degree modifiers in Japanese and English: their relations to experience, evaluation, and emotions Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Osamu Sawada
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Preconditions and projection: Explaining non-anaphoric presupposition Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Craige Roberts, Mandy Simons
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Negation and modality in unilateral truthmaker semantics Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Lucas Champollion, Timothée Bernard
Fine (J Philos Logic 46(6):625–674, 2017) develops a unilateral and a bilateral truthmaker semantics for propositional logic. The unilateral approach trades off the primitive exact falsification relation of the bilateral approach for a primitive exclusion relation between states, thereby raising the question if exclusion serves any purpose other than to avoid exact falsification. We argue that exclusion
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Verb roots encode outcomes: argument structure and lexical semantics of reversal and restitution Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Diti Bhadra
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Same and different are additive presupposition triggers Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Line Mikkelsen, Daniel Hardt
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Truth, topicality, and transparency: one-component versus two-component semantics Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Peter Hawke, Levin Hornischer, Francesco Berto
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Strengthening, exhaustification, and rational inference Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Daniel Asherov, Danny Fox, Roni Katzir
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Ignorance and concession with superlative modifiers: a cross-linguistic perspective Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Yi-Hsun Chen
Superlative modifiers (SMs) are known to demonstrate an ambiguity between an epistemic reading (EPI) conveying speaker ignorance and a concessive reading (CON) conveying speaker concession. Such EPI-CON ambiguity has often been taken, implicitly or explicitly, to be a lexical coincidence. While there may be some justification for such a position when a single language is considered, we argue for an
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Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Thomas Grano
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Demonstratives, context-sensitivity, and coherence Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Michael Devitt
Una Stojnić urges the radical view that the meaning of context-sensitive language is not “partially determined by non-linguistic features of utterance situation”, as traditionally thought, but rather “is determined entirely by grammar—by rules of language that have largely been missed”. The missed rules are ones of discourse coherence. The paper argues against this radical view as it applies to demonstrations
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Absolute gradable adjectives and loose talk Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Alexander Dinges
Kennedy (Linguist Philos 30:1–45, 2007) forcefully proposes what is now a widely assumed semantics for absolute gradable adjectives. On this semantics, maximum standard adjectives like “straight” and “dry” ascribe a maximal degree of the underlying quantity. Meanwhile, minimum standard adjectives like “bent” and “wet” merely ascribe a non-zero, non-minimal degree of the underlying quantity. This theory
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Representing multiply de re epistemic modal statements Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Cem Şişkolar
I review Ninan’s Hundred Tickets case pertaining to quantification into epistemic modal contexts, and his counterpart theoretic way to address it (Ninan, Philos Rev, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6973010). Ninan’s solution employs a ‘counterpart relation’ parameter intended to reflect how the domain of quantification is thought of in a context. This approach theoretically rules out the possibility
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On the difference between the ‘In’ and ‘According to’ operators Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Merel Semeijn
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Keeping context in mind: a non-semantic explanation of apparent context-sensitivity Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Mark Bowker
Arguments for context-sensitivity are often based on judgments about the truth values of sentences: a sentence seems true in one context and false in another, so it is argued that the truth conditions of the sentence shift between these contexts. Such arguments rely on the assumption that our judgments reflect the actual truth values of sentences in context. Here, I present a non-semantic explanation
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Language games and their types Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jonathan Ginzburg, Kwong-Cheong Wong
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Iconic Syntax: sign language classifier predicates and gesture sequences Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Philippe Schlenker, Marion Bonnet, Jonathan Lamberton, Jason Lamberton, Emmanuel Chemla, Mirko Santoro, Carlo Geraci
We argue that the pictorial nature of certain constructions in signs and in gestures explains surprising properties of their syntax. In several sign languages, the standard word order (e.g. SVO) gets turned into SOV (with preverbal arguments) when the predicate is a classifier, a distinguished construction with highly iconic properties (e.g. Pavlič, 2016). In silent gestures, participants also prefer
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Prolegomena to a theory of X-marking Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Kai von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou
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Truth and directness in pictorial assertion Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Lukas Lewerentz, Emanuel Viebahn
This paper develops an account of accuracy and truth in pictorial assertion. It argues that there are two ways in which pictorial assertions can be indirect: with respect to their content and with respect to their target. This twofold indirectness explains how accurate, unedited pictures can be used to make false pictorial assertions. It captures the fishiness of true pictorial assertions involving
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No tense: temporality in the grammar of Paraguayan Guarani Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Roumyana Pancheva, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
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Super Linguistics: an introduction Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Pritty Patel-Grosz, Salvador Mascarenhas, Emmanuel Chemla, Philippe Schlenker
We argue that formal linguistic theory, properly extended, can provide a unifying framework for diverse phenomena beyond traditional linguistic objects. We display applications to pictorial meanings, visual narratives, music, dance, animal communication, and, more abstractly, to logical and non-logical concepts in the ‘language of thought’ and reasoning. In many of these cases, a careful analysis reveals
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“Won’t you?” reverse-polarity question tags in American English as a window into the semantics-pragmatics interface Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Tatjana Scheffler, Sophia A. Malamud
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The Italian futuro as a non-biased epistemic necessity: a reply to Ippolito and Farkas Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Anastasia Giannakidou, Alda Mari
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The indexical character of epistemic modality Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Craige Roberts
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Scalar implicatures with discourse referents: a case study on plurality inferences Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Yasutada Sudo
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On the optimality of vagueness: “around”, “between” and the Gricean maxims Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Paul Égré, Benjamin Spector, Adèle Mortier, Steven Verheyen
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Not every pronoun is always a pronoun Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 E. G. Ruys
A homonymy analysis is proposed to explain the so-called “demonstrative use” of personal pronouns. This analysis explains why some pronouns (it) do not allow a demonstrative use, as demonstrated in Nunberg (1993). The absence of a demonstrative feature in it can also account for the fact that it does not allow deferred reference. It is argued on the basis of the structure of the nominal demonstrative
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Super Pragmatics of (linguistic-)pictorial discourse Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Julian J. Schlöder, Daniel Altshuler
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A semantics of face emoji in discourse Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Patrick Georg Grosz, Gabriel Greenberg, Christian De Leon, Elsi Kaiser
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Linguistic inferences from pro-speech music Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Léo Migotti, Janek Guerrini
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Being pragmatic about biscuits Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 María Biezma, Arno Goebel
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Quantifying into wh-dependencies: multiple-wh questions and questions with a quantifier Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Yimei Xiang
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What if, and when? Conditionals, tense, and branching time Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Antje Rumberg, Sven Lauer
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Lying versus misleading, with language and pictures: the adverbial account Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Manuel García-Carpintero
We intuitively make a distinction between lying and misleading. On the explanation of this phenomenon favored here—the adverbial account—the distinction tracks whether the content and its truth-committing force are literally conveyed. On an alternative commitment account, the difference between lying and misleading is predicated instead on the strength of assertoric commitment. One lies when one presents
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Attitude verbs’ local context Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Kyle Blumberg, Simon Goldstein
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Reps and representations: a warm-up to a grammar of lifting Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Maria Esipova
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Musical grouping as prosodic implementation Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Jonah Katz
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A flexible scope theory of intensionality Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Patrick D. Elliott
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Principles of presupposition in development Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Athulya Aravind, Danny Fox, Martin Hackl
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Pointing to communicate: the discourse function and semantics of rich demonstration Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Christian De Leon
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Update rules and semantic universals Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Luca Incurvati, Giorgio Sbardolini
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Properties of propositional attitude operators Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 R. Zuber
A simple model accounting for semantic properties of propositional attitude operators in negative contexts with no reference to possible worlds is proposed. Verbs occurring in such operators denote relations between individuals and specific sets of sentences (of a given natural language) and their negation is defined as the complement within a specific set of cognitively determined sentences. This
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The semantics of exceptives Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Stanley Peters, Dag Westerståhl
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Moving to the rhythm of spring: a case study of the rhythmic structure of dance Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Isabelle Charnavel
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Counterfactuals, hyperintensionality and Hurford disjunctions Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Hüseyin Güngör
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Default meanings: language’s logical connectives between comprehension and reasoning Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 David J. Lobina, Josep Demestre, José E. García-Albea, Marc Guasch
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Faultless disagreement without contradiction: expressive-relativism and predicates of personal taste Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Justina Berškytė, Graham Stevens
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Acquaintance and evidence in appearance language Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Rachel Etta Rudolph
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Familiarity inferences, subjective attitudes and counterstance contingency: towards a pragmatic theory of subjective meaning Linguist. Philos. (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Christopher Kennedy, Malte Willer