Local Satisfaction Explained Away

The paper makes the proposal to replace local satisfaction as a source of presupposition blocking by causal and identity inferences that indirectly ---through Trapping--- lead to the same effect

Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information

Schlangen D, Lascarides A, Copestake A. Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information. In: Kühnlein P, Rieser H, Zeevat H, eds. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (BI-DIALOG 2001). Bielefeld; 2001: 79-93

On truth unpersistence: At the crossroads of epistemic modality and discourse

International audienceWe propose a semantic analysis of the particles afinal (European Portuguese) and alla fine (Italian) in terms of the notion of truth unpersistence, which combines both epistemic modality and constraints on discourse structure. We argue that the felicitous use of these modal particles requires that the truth of a proposition p* fail to persist through a temporal succession of epistemic states, where p* is incompatible with the proposition modified by afinal/alla fine, and that the interlocutors share knowledge of a previous epistemic attitude toward p*. We analyze two main cases, that of plan-related propositions and that of propositions without plans. We also discuss the connections between truth unpersistence and evidentiality

Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics Selected papers of BRIDGE-14

The articles in this volume are the outcome of the successful BRIDGE Workshop held in Düsseldorf in 2014. The workshop gathered a number of distinguished researchers from formal semantics and conceptual semantics and aimed to initiate a deeper conversation and collaboration instead of separating the two sides as competing views. The workshop provided a platform to further discuss parallelisms on specific semantic issues on the one hand and on the other hand to confront opposed claims from the two different perspectives. This volume represents a selected number of high-quality papers presented at the workshop featuring various approaches to meaning from linguistics, logic and philosophy of language. The series 'Studies in Language and Cognition' explores issues of mental representation, linguistic structure and representation, and their interplay. The research presented in this series is grounded in the idea explored in the Collaborative Research Center 'The structure of representations in language, cognition and science' (SFB 991) that there is a universal format for the representation of linguistic and cognitive concepts

Le mécanisme des relations de réplique

H. Zeevat, Université d'Amsterdam : « Le mécanisme des relations de réplique » The paper discusses the laws by which the counterpart relation between objects in the world and the « objects » in the mind of a person (or between the « objects » in the mind of a person A and those in the mind of a person B) evolve under the influence of communication and perception. The results of this investigation are combined with a recent theory of presuppositions to obtain an alternative solution to Frege's problem in attitudinal contexts.Zeevat Henk. Le mécanisme des relations de réplique. In: Langages, 30ᵉ année, n°123, 1996. Sémantique du discours, sous la direction de Francis Corblin. pp. 99-123