Gesture projection and cosuppositions

P Schlenker - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2018 - Springer
In dynamic theories of presupposition, a trigger pp′(eg it stopped raining) with
presupposition p (it rained) and at-issue component p′(it doesn't now rain) comes with a …

Iconic pragmatics

P Schlenker - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2018 - Springer
Recent comparative semantics suggests that sign language makes use of the same logical
resources as spoken language, but has richer mechanisms of iconic enrichment. It is often …

Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks

L Tieu, R Pasternak, P Schlenker, E Chemla - Glossa, 2017 - researchers.mq.edu.au
Two main analyses have been proposed to explain how co-speech gestures interact with
logical operators. According to the Supplemental analysis (Ebert & Ebert 2014), co-speech …

[HTML][HTML] Triggering presuppositions

P Schlenker - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 - glossa-journal.org
While presuppositions are often thought to be lexically encoded, researchers have
repeatedly argued for 'triggering algorithms' that productively classify certain entailments as …

A comparison of sign language with speech plus gesture

C Ebert - Theoretical Linguistics, 2018 - degruyter.com
In the introduction to his target article Schlenker writes that „sign languages provide overt
evidence on crucial aspects of the Logical Form of sentences that are only inferred indirectly …

Sign language semantics: Problems and prospects

P Schlenker - Theoretical Linguistics, 2018 - degruyter.com
Abstract 'Visible Meaning'claims (i) that sign language makes visible some aspects of the
Logical Form of sentences that are covert in spoken language, and (ii) that, along some …