Prolegomena to a theory of X-marking

K von Fintel, S Iatridou - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2023 - Springer
The morphological marking that distinguishes conditionals that are called “counterfactual”
from those that are not, can also be found in other modal constructions, such as in the …

Non-literal lies are not exculpatory

H Güngör - The Philosophical Quarterly, 2024 - academic.oup.com
One can lie by asserting non-literal content. If I tell you 'You are the cream in my coffee'while
hating you, I can be rightfully accused of lying if my true emotions are unearthed. This is not …

Modelling selectional super-flexibility

K Liefke - Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2021 - journals.linguisticsociety.org
The selectional flexibility of some attitude verbs (eg know, realize, report) between
declarative and interrogative complements has been the subject of much recent work in …

Underspecifying desires

RJ Booth - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2023 - Springer
According to a simple theory of the relationship between 'want'ascriptions and the desires
they ascribe, when I learn that⌜ A wants p⌝ is true, I learn that the truth of p is necessary and …

Modality, expected utility, and hypothesis testing

WJ Chung, S Mascarenhas - Synthese, 2023 - Springer
We introduce an expected-value theory of linguistic modality that makes reference to
expected utility and a likelihood-based confirmation measure for deontics and epistemics …

[CITATION][C] Attitudes, aboutness, and indirect restriction

K von Fintel, R Pasternak, AI Synthflow - Linguistics and Philosophy