Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09329-8
P. Schlenker
{"title":"Musical meaning within Super Semantics","authors":"P. Schlenker","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09329-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09329-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"45 1","pages":"795 - 872"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47981092","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 : 2021-11-20DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09338-7
Michela Ippolito, Donka F. Farkas
In this paper, we study the distribution and interpretation of a non-temporal use of the future tense in Italian, called ‘presumptive’ or ‘epistemic’, which we label here PF. We first distinguish PF from its closest modal relatives, namely epistemic necessity/possibility/likelihood modals, as well as weak necessity modals. We then propose an account of PF in declaratives and interrogatives that treats it as a special comparative subjective likelihood modal, and test its empirical predictions. A theoretical lesson drawn from this detailed study of the semantics of PF is that semantics needs sharpened theoretical tools to be able to capture the fine-grained distinctions languages make when it comes to signaling modulated epistemic commitment to a proposition.
{"title":"Assessing alternatives: the case of the presumptive future in Italian","authors":"Michela Ippolito, Donka F. Farkas","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09338-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09338-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we study the distribution and interpretation of a non-temporal use of the future tense in Italian, called ‘presumptive’ or ‘epistemic’, which we label here PF. We first distinguish PF from its closest modal relatives, namely epistemic necessity/possibility/likelihood modals, as well as weak necessity modals. We then propose an account of PF in declaratives and interrogatives that treats it as a special comparative subjective likelihood modal, and test its empirical predictions. A theoretical lesson drawn from this detailed study of the semantics of PF is that semantics needs sharpened theoretical tools to be able to capture the fine-grained distinctions languages make when it comes to signaling modulated epistemic commitment to a proposition.</p>","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"14 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138503628","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 : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1007/s10988-005-5695-1
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Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09339-6
Guillermo Del Pinal
{"title":"Probabilistic semantics for epistemic modals: Normality assumptions, conditional epistemic spaces and the strength of must and might","authors":"Guillermo Del Pinal","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09339-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09339-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"45 1","pages":"985 - 1026"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52958809","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 : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09341-y
W. Uegaki
{"title":"Correction to: The existential/uniqueness presupposition of wh-complements projects from the answers","authors":"W. Uegaki","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09341-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09341-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"45 1","pages":"199"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44668007","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 : 2021-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09323-0
Yağmur Sağ
{"title":"Bare singulars and singularity in Turkish","authors":"Yağmur Sağ","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09323-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09323-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"45 1","pages":"741 - 793"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46261783","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 : 2021-09-09DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09340-z
Wojciech Rostworowski, K. Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz
{"title":"Against intentionalism: an experimental study on demonstrative reference","authors":"Wojciech Rostworowski, K. Kuś, Bartosz Maćkiewicz","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09340-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09340-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"45 1","pages":"1027 - 1061"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48890152","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 : 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09337-8
Tyler Knowlton, P. Pietroski, Justin Halberda, J. Lidz
{"title":"The mental representation of universal quantifiers","authors":"Tyler Knowlton, P. Pietroski, Justin Halberda, J. Lidz","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09337-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09337-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"45 1","pages":"911 - 941"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48271905","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 : 2021-08-31DOI: 10.1007/s10988-021-09335-w
Sam Carter
{"title":"Force and Choice","authors":"Sam Carter","doi":"10.1007/s10988-021-09335-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-021-09335-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47748,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics and Philosophy","volume":"45 1","pages":"873 - 910"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41654166","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}