Only, or, and free choice presuppositions
| Autor: | Sam Alxatib |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Semantics (computer science) Philosophy 05 social sciences Operator (linguistics) 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Presupposition Linguistics Epistemology Syntax (logic) Philosophy of language Meaning (philosophy of language) 060302 philosophy 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Implicature |
| Zdroj: | Natural Language Semantics. 28:395-429 |
| ISSN: | 1572-865X 0925-854X |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11050-020-09170-y |
| Popis: | Bar-Lev and Fox (Natl Lang Semant 28:175–223, 2020), B-L&F, redefine the exhaustification operator, Exh, so that it negates innocently excludable (IE) alternatives and asserts innocently includable (II) ones. They similarly redefine the exclusive particle only so that it negates IE-alternatives and presupposes II ones. B-L&F justify their revision of only on the basis of Alxatib’s finding (in: Proceedings of NELS 44, 2014) that only presupposes free choice (FC) in cases like Kim was only allowed to eat soup or salad. I show challenges to B-L&F’s view of only and argue against extending II to its meaning. Instead I propose that FC is better treated as a “presuppositional implicature” in such cases. I show the details of how this can be done and identify the necessary (and occasionally novel) auxiliary assumptions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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