Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09215-y
Furkan Dikmen, Elena Guerzoni, Ömer Demirok
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09214-z
Roni Katzir
The sensitivity of focus to context has often been analyzed in terms of focus-based anaphoric relations between sentences and surrounding discourse. The literature, however, has also noted empirical difficulties for the anaphoric approach, and my goal in the present paper is to investigate what happens if we abandon the anaphoric view altogether. Instead of anaphoric felicity conditions, I propose that focus leads to infelicity only indirectly, when the semantic processes that it feeds—in particular, exhaustification and question formation—make an inappropriate contribution to discourse. I outline such an account, in line with Roberts (In Papers in semantics, Vol. 49 of Working papers in linguistics, 91–136, The Ohio State University, 1996) and incorporating recent insights from Büring (In Questions in discourse, Vol. 36 of Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface, 6–44, Leiden: Brill, 2019) and Fox (In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, 403–434, 2019). This account, which I motivate on conceptual grounds, has no anaphoric conditions on focus placement and has only an economy condition as a potential felicity condition on focus. However, there are cases where the fine control offered by anaphoricity seems needed, either to block deaccenting that would be licensed by a question or to allow local deaccenting that is not warranted by a question. Such cases challenge non-anaphoric accounts such as the present one and appear to support recent anaphoric proposals such as Schwarzschild (In Making worlds accessible. Essays in honor of Angelika Kratzer, 167–192, 2020), Wagner (In The Wiley Blackwell companion to semantics, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), and Goodhue (Journal of Semantics 39: 117–158, 2022). I argue that this potential motivation for anaphoricity is only apparent and that to the extent that anaphoric conditions on focus from the literature are not inert, they are in fact harmful.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09213-0
Kjell Johan Sæbø
The type of mood or tense marking that causes counterfactuality inferences—as figuring prominently, but far from exclusively, in counterfactual conditionals—has not yet received a comprehensive and compositional analysis. Focusing on four languages, the paper presents under-appreciated facts and a novel theory where the mood serves to activate alternatives to modal operators, particularly one: the identity operator, often giving rise to counterfactual implicatures.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09212-1
Olga Kagan
This paper investigates lexical mass-to-count and count-to-mass operators in Slavic languages, primarily Russian and Ukrainian, by exploring the distribution and semantic contribution of the suffix -in/-yn. The focus is on two uses of the suffix: the singulative turns mass nouns like gorox ‘pea’ into count, denoting sets of natural units (e.g., gorošina ‘a pea’), and the massifier applies to count nouns, such as kon’ ‘horse’, and turns them into mass (e.g., konina ‘horsemeat’). It is proposed that each use of -in/-yn contributes a partition operator which triggers a new division into units of the original material part. It is further argued that the singulative and the massifier should be unified, given their (i) phonological identity, (ii) shared grammatical properties, and (iii) common semantic core. Under the proposed analysis, there is a single suffix that functions as an underspecified lexical partition shifter.
本文通过探索后缀-in/-yn的分布和语义贡献，研究了斯拉夫语言(主要是俄语和乌克兰语)中词汇mass-to-count和count-to-mass操作符。重点是后缀的两种用法:单数将质量名词(如gorox ' pea ')转化为count，表示一组自然单位(例如gorošina ' a pea ')，而massifier应用于计数名词，如kon ' horse '，并将它们转化为mass(例如konina '马肉')。提出每次使用-in/-yn都提供了一个划分算子，该算子触发对原始材料部分的新划分。鉴于其(i)语音同一性，(ii)共同的语法特性，以及(iii)共同的语义核心，我们进一步认为单数词和块化词应该统一起来。在建议的分析中，有一个后缀用作未指定的词法分区转移器。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09210-3
Moshe E. Bar-Lev, Danny Fox
{"title":"On fatal competition and the nature of distributive inferences","authors":"Moshe E. Bar-Lev, Danny Fox","doi":"10.1007/s11050-023-09210-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-023-09210-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09206-z
Alexandros Kalomoiros
{"title":"Deriving presupposition projection in coordinations of polar questions: a reply to Enguehard 2021","authors":"Alexandros Kalomoiros","doi":"10.1007/s11050-023-09206-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-023-09206-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136153229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09205-0
Ilaria Frana, Paula Menéndez-Benito
{"title":"The evidential future in Italian","authors":"Ilaria Frana, Paula Menéndez-Benito","doi":"10.1007/s11050-023-09205-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-023-09205-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"31 1","pages":"139 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46782644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09208-x
Sam Alxatib
{"title":"Remarks on exhaustification and embedded free choice","authors":"Sam Alxatib","doi":"10.1007/s11050-023-09208-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-023-09208-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45120004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1007/s11050-023-09209-w
Tyler Knowlton, P. Pietroski, Alexander Williams, Justin Halberda, J. Lidz
{"title":"Psycholinguistic evidence for restricted quantification","authors":"Tyler Knowlton, P. Pietroski, Alexander Williams, Justin Halberda, J. Lidz","doi":"10.1007/s11050-023-09209-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-023-09209-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47108,"journal":{"name":"Natural Language Semantics","volume":"31 1","pages":"219 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43117187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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