Redundancy and Embedded Exhaustification

Meyer, Marie-Christine

doi:10.3765/salt.v25i0.3486

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“…33 The minimal set of alternatives to the first disjunct in (98) includes Mary isn't pregnant and Mary isn't happy. Only the latter will be excluded by exh, which means that (98) would 33 Notice that, as Meyer (2015) discusses, this line of thinking works well if there is no negation in the first disjunct. With negation present, however, we do not see how this account could work.…”

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“…That (86) and (87) are acceptable is unexpected on Meyer's (2015) account who argues that cases like (84) can only be true in situations verifying the exclusive but not the inclusive interpretation of (85). …”

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“…The present paper discusses data that are problematic for all of these accounts. In particular, we focus on the examples in (2) from Mayr & Romoli 2013 (see also Chierchia 2009, Katzir & Singh 2014and Meyer 2015. The problem is that (2a) and (2b) appear to provide exactly the same information.…”

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“…Following Stalnaker 1979, a number of such theories have recently been proposed (Singh 2007, Fox 2008, Schlenker 2008, Chierchia 2009, Meyer 2013, 2015, Katzir & Singh 2014. The present paper discusses data that are problematic for all of these accounts.…”

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“…7 We briefly discuss a third solution proposed by Meyer (2015) in Section 5.1.3. 8 Chierchia's account is a reaction to the first author's pointing out to him the crucial data discussed.…”

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A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context

Mayr

Romoli

2016

Semantics and Pragmatics

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The present paper discusses novel data which are problematic for assertability conditions based on redundancy (Stalnaker 1979 't pregnant or (she is and) it doesn't show and in particular from the optional presence of she is (pregnant). These data are even more puzzling if compared to corresponding conditionals like If Mary is pregnant, (#she is and) it doesn't show where the she is (pregnant) part is unacceptable as expected. In response to this puzzle, we present a solution based on two ingredients: (i) exhaustification and (ii) a notion of incremental redundancy. As we show, exhaustifying a sentence has an effect on the (incremental) redundancy status of its constituents. As a consequence of this, she is (pregnant) is actually not redundant in the disjunctive sentence above, provided the latter is exhaustified. We explore two possible ways of implementing this solution. The first is based on a definition of incremental redundancy which does not make use of local contexts as proposed by Fox (2008Fox ( , 2013

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…7 We briefly discuss a third solution proposed by Meyer (2015) in Section 5.1.3. 8 Chierchia's account is a reaction to the first author's pointing out to him the crucial data discussed.…”

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A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context

Mayr

Romoli

2016

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The counterfactual direct argument

Goldstein¹

2019

Linguist and Philos

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Conditionals and specific links—an experimental study

Rostworowski

Pietrulewicz²,

Będkowski

2021

Synthese

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Based on the new experimental evidence, we argue that a link between a conditional antecedent and the consequent is semantically expressed rather than pragmatically conveyed. In our paper, we focus on particular kinds of links which conditionals may convey in a context. For instance, a conditional ‘If p, q’ may convey a thought equivalent to ‘p will cause q’, ‘p is the best explanation for q’, ‘q follows from p’, etcetera. The traditional theoretical literature on conditionals seems to imply that these specific links are generated pragmatically and are akin to conversational implicatures. In order to test this hypothesis, we used a well-recognized linguistic test from ‘reinforceability’ (i.e., susceptibility to a non-redundant affirmation), which serves to distinguish between a semantic and pragmatic level of meaning, and we designed an experimental study based on that test. The outcome of our study is that specific links conveyed by conditionals exhibit features of semantic entailments rather than conversational implicatures. This result accords with some of the recent findings in empirical investigations on conditionals. In the final part of our paper, we discuss various accounts of conditionals which can accommodate the results of our study.

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Redundancy and Embedded Exhaustification

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context

A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context

The counterfactual direct argument

Conditionals and specific links—an experimental study

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