[کتاب][B] Questions

V Dayal - 2016‏ - books.google.com
This book synthesizes and integrates 40 years of research on the semantics of questions,
and its interface with pragmatics and syntax, conducted within the formal semantics tradition …

Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon

G Chierchia, D Fox, B Spector - Handbücher zur Sprach-und …, 2012‏ - library.oapen.org
This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-
rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily …

Meaning and alternatives

N Gotzner, J Romoli - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Alternatives and competition in language are pervasive at all levels of linguistic analysis.
More specifically, alternatives have been argued to play a prominent role in an ever-growing …

Mass nouns, vagueness and semantic variation

G Chierchia - Synthese, 2010‏ - Springer
The mass/count distinction attracts a lot of attention among cognitive scientists, possibly
because it involves in fundamental ways the relation between language (ie grammar) …

On the semantics of phi features on pronouns

Y Sudo - 2012‏ - dspace.mit.edu
This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

[کتاب][B] Parts of a whole: Distributivity as a bridge between aspect and measurement

L Champollion - 2017‏ - books.google.com
This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in
language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't. For instance, why can we …

[کتاب][B] Quantification

A Szabolcsi - 2010‏ - books.google.com
Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence
structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …

Implicated presuppositions

U Sauerland - The discourse potential of underspecified structures, 2008‏ - degruyter.com
Presuppositions are an important means to structure information. They allow speakers to
communicate more than one proposition with a single sentence, and furthermore indicate …

Children's derivation of scalar implicatures: Alternatives and relevance

D Skordos, A Papafragou - Cognition, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Utterances such as “Megan ate some of the cupcakes” are often interpreted as “Megan ate
some but not all of the cupcakes”. Such an interpretation is thought to arise from a pragmatic …

Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development

R Singh, K Wexler, A Astle-Rahim, D Kamawar… - Natural Language …, 2016‏ - Springer
We present evidence that preschool children oftentimes understand disjunctive sentences
as if they were conjunctive. The result holds for matrix disjunctions as well as disjunctions …