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dc.contributor.authorRomoli, Jacopo
dc.contributor.authorRenans, Agata
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-14T06:44:37Z
dc.date.available2021-06-14T06:44:37Z
dc.date.created2021-01-11T11:31:04Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.PublishedJournal of Semantics. 2020, 37 (3), 455-474.
dc.identifier.issn0167-5133
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2759151
dc.description.abstractA sentence with an adverbial modifier under negation like Mike didn’t wash the window with soap gives rise to an inference that Mike did wash the window. A sentence with a plural noun like Mike washed windows gives rise to a so-called ‘multiplicity’ inference that Mike washed multiple windows. In this note, we focus on the interaction between these two inferences in sentences containing both an adverbial modifier and a plural noun under negation, like Mike didn’t wash windows with soap. We observe that this sentence has a reading conveying that Mike didn’t wash any window with soap but that he did wash multiple windows (albeit not with soap). As we discuss, this reading is not predicted by any version of the implicature approach to the multiplicity inference, in combination with the implicature treatment of the inference of adverbial modifiers. We sketch two solutions for this problem. The first keeps the implicature approach to adverbial modifiers but adopts a non-implicature approach to multiplicity based on homogeneity. The second solution holds on to the implicature approach to the multiplicity inference but accounts for the inference of adverbial modifiers as a presupposition. In addition, it adopts the idea that presuppositions can be strengthened via implicatures, as proposed recently in the literature. Either way, the interaction between multiplicity and the inference of adverbial modifiers suggests that we cannot treat both as implicatures: if we want to treat either one as an implicature, we need to do something different for the other. We end by comparing the case above to analogous cases involving different scalar inferences and showing that the ambiguity approach to the multiplicity inference does not provide a solution to our problem.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleMultiplicity and Modifiersen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright The Author(s) 2020en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffaa005
dc.identifier.cristin1868788
dc.source.journalJournal of Semanticsen_US
dc.source.4037
dc.source.143
dc.source.pagenumber455-474en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Semantics. 2020, 37 (3), 455–474.en_US
dc.source.volume37en_US
dc.source.issue3en_US


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