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On greek illusions: a semantic account of Alexopoulouâs generalization
Alexopoulou (2008) argues that Greek provides new evidence for the concept of binding illusions that was hypothesized by Fox and Sauerland (1996). Of special interest from my perspective is Alexopoulouâs argument that binding illusions arise not only with existential and universal quantifiers, but also with negative and interrogative quantifiers. The purpose of this note is to speculate on how to account for these kinds of binding illusions semantically building on Alexopoulouâs argument. In the following I refer to Alexopoulouâs (2008) paper as BIRG (Binding Illusions and Resumption in Greek) and to Clitic Left-Dislocation as CLLD. BIRGâs argument is based on the generalization concerning CLLD in Greek. Generally, a left-dislocated noun phrase cannot bind a pronoun in its clause in Greek
Higher-Dimensional Timed Automata
We introduce a new formalism of higher-dimensional timed automata, based on
van Glabbeek's higher-dimensional automata and Alur's timed automata. We prove
that their reachability is PSPACE-complete and can be decided using zone-based
algorithms. We also show how to use tensor products to combat state-space
explosion and how to extend the setting to higher-dimensional hybrid automata
On embedded implicatures
The Gricean approach explains implicatures by assumptions about the pragmatics of entire utterances. The phenomenon of embedded implicatures remains a challenge for this approach since in such cases apparently implicatures contribute to the truth-conditional content of constituents smaller than utterances. In this paper, I investigate three areas where embedded implicatures seem to differ from implicatures at the utterance level: optionality, epistemic status, and implicated presuppositions. I conclude that the differences between the two kinds of implicatures justify an approach that maintains Gricean assumptions at the utterance level, and assumes a special operator for embedded implicatures
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