“…However, they differ in what the at-issue content is: That is, they take exclusives and clefts to encode the same semantics, but while clefts presuppose exhaustivity (the MAX operator in their analysis) and assert the truth of the answer to the current question (the MIN operator), for exclusives these operators are reversed, i.e., MAX is asserted and MIN is presupposed. Alternatively, there are several proposals in the literature in which clefts are argued to be parallel to definite descriptions in their underlying syntax and semantics (Percus 1997;Hedberg 2000;Büring & Križ 2013). Similar to Velleman et al 2012, Büring & Križ (2013 argue that exhaustivity in clefts is presuppositional; unlike Velleman et al 2012, however, in this analysis cleft exhaustivity is captured indirectly as a homogeneity-not a maximality-presupposition, which they propose for definite descriptions as well.…”