The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that
attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics …

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 …

The typology of the logical vocabulary in natural language is highly skewed. In the domain of
logical connectives, AND and OR are often lexicalized, lexicalizations of NOR are less …

An influential view in philosophy and linguistics equates the meaning of a sentence to the
conditions under which it is true. But it has been argued that this truth-conditional view is too …

Abstract Grammatical theories of Scalar Implicatures make use of an exhaustivity operator
exh, which asserts the conjunction of the prejacent with the negation of excludable …

Plain disjunctive sentences, such as The mystery box contains a blue ball or a yellow ball,
typically imply that the speaker does not know which of the two disjuncts is true. This is …

Recent advances in computational cognitive science (ie, simulation-based probabilistic
programs) have paved the way for significant progress in formal, implementable models of …

Sentences are standardly assumed to trigger scalar and ignorance implicatures because
there are alternative utterances the speaker could have said. The central question in …

During communication, the interpretation of utterances is sensitive to a listener's probabilistic
prior beliefs. In this paper, we focus on the influence of prior beliefs on so‐called exhaustivity …

Why is ordinary language vague? We argue that in contexts in which a cooperative speaker
is not perfectly informed about the world, the use of vague expressions can offer an optimal …