Strengthening, exhaustification, and rational inference

The literature in semantics and pragmatics provides extensive evidence for the strengthening of linguistic expressions, both in matrix positions and when embedded under various operators. We study the properties of such strengthening using a very simple setting. Specifically, we look at when the exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Asherov, Daniel, Fox, Danny, Katzir, Roni
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155947