Free choice, simplification, and Innocent Inclusion

IF 0.9 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Natural Language Semantics Pub Date : 2020-03-12 DOI:10.1007/s11050-020-09162-y

Moshe E. Bar-Lev, Danny Fox

引用次数: 35

Abstract

We propose a modification of the exhaustivity operator from Fox (in: Sauerland and Stateva (eds) Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp 71–120, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210752_4) that on top of negating all the Innocently Excludable alternatives affirms all the ‘Innocently Includable’ ones. The main result of supplementing the notion of Innocent Exclusion with that of Innocent Inclusion is that it allows the exhaustivity operator to identify cells in the partition induced by the set of alternatives (assign a truth value to every alternative) whenever possible. We argue for this property of ‘cell identification’ based on the simplification of disjunctive antecedents and the effects on free choice that arise as the result of the introduction of universal quantifiers. We further argue for our proposal based on the interaction of only with free choice disjunction.

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自由选择、简化和无害包容

我们提出了对Fox (in: Sauerland and Stateva(编))的穷尽算子的修改，《组合语义中的预设和含义》，Palgrave Macmillan，伦敦，第71-120页，2007。https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210752_4)在否定所有“无罪排除”选项的基础上，肯定了所有“无罪包含”选项。用无害包含的概念补充无害排除的主要结果是，它允许穷尽算子在可能的情况下识别由备选集引起的分区中的单元(为每个备选分配一个真值)。我们基于析取先行词的简化和引入全称量词对自由选择的影响来论证“细胞识别”的这一特性。我们进一步论证了基于仅与自由选择分离的相互作用的建议。

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Natural Language Semantics Multiple-

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1.90

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27.30%

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