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Polish and Russian in German Rap: A Corpus Study on Language Contact and Social Semantics
According to public opinion, multilingual diversity in German rap music (Deutschrap) has been marginalised since the 1990s (Caglar, 1998). Recently,...
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Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice
Recent work on mood choice considers fine-grained semantic differences among desire predicates (notably, ‘want’ and ‘hope’) and their consequences...
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Force shift: a case study of Cantonese ho2 particle clusters
This paper investigates force shift, a phenomenon in which the canonical discourse conventions, or force, associated with a clause type can be...
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Isn’t there more than one way to bias a polar question?
I show that speaker bias in polarity focus questions (PFQs) is context sensitive, while speaker bias in high negation questions (HNQs) is context...
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Compensatory role of verbal learning and consolidation in reading and spelling of children with dyslexia
The present study investigated the compensatory role of verbal learning and consolidation in reading and spelling of children with ( N = 54) and...
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Faultless disagreement without contradiction: expressive-relativism and predicates of personal taste
In this paper we motivate and develop a new approach to predicates of personal taste within the framework of semantic relativism. Our primary goal is...
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Descriptions, pronouns, and uniqueness
Both definite descriptions and pronouns are often anaphoric; that is, part of their interpretation in context depends on prior linguistic material in...
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A Correlative Typology Mixing Syntactic and Semantic Parameters
The Dravidian correlative is formed with a wh-item containing sentence with -oo at the clause edge. The disjunction marker -oo in Dravidian languages...
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Counterfactuals and modality
This essay calls attention to a set of linguistic interactions between counterfactual conditionals, on one hand, and possibility modals like could have ...
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Principles of presupposition in development
This paper brings a developmental perspective to the discussion of a longstanding issue surrounding the proper characterization of presuppositions....
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On Heim’s “On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions”
Irene Heim’s 1983 paper, “On the Projection Problem for Presuppositions” is, first, a paper about presupposition projection. But perhaps its major...
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The structure of communicative acts
Utterances of natural language sentences can be used to communicate not just contents, but also forces. This paper examines this topic from a...
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Dependent plurals and three levels of multiplicity
The paper focuses on the semantics of distributivity, grammatical number, and cardinality predicates (numerals and modifiers like several ). I argue...
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Two puzzles about ability can
The received wisdom on ability modals is that they differ from their epistemic and deontic cousins in what inferences they license and better receive...
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Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals
Expressivists about epistemic modals deny that ‘Jane might be late’ canonically serves to express the speaker’s acceptance of a certain propositional...
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The nature of the semantic stimulus: the acquisition of every as a case study
We evaluate the richness of the child’s input in semantics and its relation to the hypothesis space available to the child. Our case study is the...
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Presupposition, assertion, and definite descriptions
In recent work on the semantics of definite descriptions, some theorists (Elbourne in Definite descriptions, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
2013 ;...
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Not all arguments are processed equally: a distributional model of argument complexity
This work addresses some questions about language processing: what does it mean that natural language sentences are semantically complex? What...
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On Stalnaker’s “Indicative Conditionals”
Stalnaker’s “Indicative conditionals” is not primarily about conditionals. Its main goal is to showcase the power of a general-purpose theoretical...
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CAOSS and transcendence: Modeling role-dependent constituent meanings in compounds
Many theories on the role of semantics in morphological representation and processing focus on the interplay between the lexicalized meaning of the...
