Browsing Department of Foreign Languages by Author "Romoli, Jacopo"

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    • Multiplicity and Modifiers 

      Romoli, Jacopo; Renans, Agata (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      A 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 ...

    • Presupposed free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures 

      Marty, Paul; Romoli, Jacopo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      A disjunctive sentence like Olivia took Logic or Algebra conveys that Olivia didn’t take both classes (EXCLUSIVITY) and that the speaker doesn’t know which of the two classes she took (IGNORANCE). The corresponding sentence ...

    • Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence 

      Marty, Paul; Romoli, Jacopo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed in subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise ...