Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics Book

Notes on Contributors     viii
Introduction   Uli Sauerland   Penka Stateva     1
Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions   Sigrid Beck     12
Introduction     12
The presupposition of again     14
Quantifier dependent again     22
Conclusions and consequences     31
Licensing or   Regine Eckardt     34
Introduction     34
Boolean and mis-behaved 'or'     38
Explicit existential quantification and 'or'     46
Modal existentials     53
Interactions between different licensers     62
Summary     67
Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures   Danny Fox     71
Some background on scalar implicatures     72
The problem of free choice permission     80
Other free choice inferences     85
Chierchia's puzzle     89
Sauerland's proposal     90
An alternative perspective     95
Recursive exhaustification and FC     102
Other existential quantifiers     105
Singular indefinites     106
Other FC effects     108
Remaining issues     109
Conclusion     111
Partial Variables and Specificity   Gerhard Jager     121
Introduction     121
Specificity and scope     122
Solution strategies     125
Partial variables     136
Partial variables and presuppositions     150
Conclusion     154
Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap   Manfred Krifka     163
Double negatives     163
Attempts to explain double negatives     165
Pragmatic strengthening within an epistemic theory of vagueness     168
Conclusion     175
A Pragmatic Constraint on Adverbial Quantification   Orin Percus     178
A possible line of argumentation, and reasons to reject it     178
A constraint on the use of sentences with adverbial quantifiers     183
Some consequences of this constraint     191
Consequences for 'semantic partition'     201
Concluding remarks     206
Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection   Philippe Schlenker     214
The dynamic turn and the Transparency theory     215
The projection problem: basic results of the Transparency theory     223
The triggering problem: against a lexical treatment     232
Problems and prospects     236
Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures   Benjamin Spector     243
A puzzle about plural indefinites     243
Sketch of the analysis     245
The proposal     251
More complex cases     257
An enigma that confirms the hypothesis: the modal presupposition induced by plural indefinites     264
Sauerland's alternative     267
Conclusion     271
Index     282