The grammar of discourse: The case of then

Biezma, María

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“…Relatedly, it is felicitous to mark B's question in (6) with dann 'then' instead of denn, as shown in (i). We won't return to dann in this paper; seeBiezma (2014) for an analysis of the relevant use of English then. (i) [Same scenario as in (12).…”

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Denn as a highlighting-sensitive particle

Theiler

2020

Linguist and Philos

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This paper develops an account of the German discourse particle denn that captures the meaning contribution of this particle in polar questions, wh-questions, and certain conditional antecedents in a unified way. It is shown that the behavior of denn exhibits an asymmetry between polar and wh-interrogatives, which can be captured by treating the particle as sensitive to the property highlighted by its containing clause, in the sense of Roelofsen and Farkas (Language 91(2):359–414, 2015). In addition, the paper argues that highlighting-sensitivity should be incorporated in the account of another discourse particle, German überhaupt, and discusses how the proposed account of discourse particle denn may be extended to also cover the use of denn as a causal conjunction.

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Denn as a highlighting-sensitive particle

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2020

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“…The Relevance Effect reported in Skovgaard-Olsen et al (2016a) was found using indicative conditionals containing neither 'then' and 'will' in the consequent as stimulus materials. Consequently, it is possible that these results could be completely accounted for based on the meaning contribution of 'then' advanced in Iatridou (1994), von Fintel (1994, and Biezma (2014). Against such an account, it was found that the strong interaction for [if A, ¬C)], the Relevance factor, encoding the two different relevance levels, and of the Experiment factor (Exp1 vs. Exp2).…”

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“…7 For all the experiments in this paper, 'then' in the consequents was removed from the contents. This is to see whether reason relation readings of conditionals are induced by 'then' in the consequents (as suggested by Iatridou, 1994;von Fintel, 1994;Biezma, 2014). Additionally, 'will' was removed.…”

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“…The significance of the violation of the Negation Principle for its probabilistic version both with and without 'then' and 'will' is that it rules out an explanation of the Relevance Effect in Skovgaard-Olsen et al (2016a) as based on the non-truth conditional contribution of the discourse marker 'then', along the lines of Iatridou (1994), von Fintel (1994, and Biezma's (2014). Had the Relevance Effect been due to the influence of 'then' in the investigated materials, we would expect the effects on probability evaluations of the contrast Positive Relevance (ΔP > 0) vs. Irrelevance (ΔP = 0) to go away once conditionals without 'then' in the consequent were investigated.…”

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“…SeeIatridou (1994),Biezma (2014),Bhatt & Pancheva (2006), and Zakkou (2017) for further discussion.In bothSkovgaard-Olsen et al (2019a, Experiment 2) and the present experiment, it is found that the probabilistic version of the Negation Principle can only be maintained for the Positive Relevance condition. In contrast, this principle is systematically violated for the Irrelevance condition in both experiments.…”

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Skovgaard-Olsen

2019

Cognition

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In this paper, a critical discussion is made of the role of entailments in the so-called New Paradigm of psychology of reasoning based on Bayesian models of rationality (Elqayam & Over, 2013). It is argued that assessments of probabilistic coherence cannot stand on their own, but that they need to be integrated with empirical studies of intuitive entailment judgments. This need is motivated not just by the requirements of probability theory itself, but also by a need to enhance the interdisciplinary integration of the psychology of reasoning with formal semantics in linguistics. The constructive goal of the paper is to introduce a new experimental paradigm, called the Dialogical Entailment task, to supplement current trends in the psychology of reasoning towards investigating knowledge-rich, social reasoning under uncertainty (Oaksford and Chater, 2019). As a case study, this experimental paradigm is applied to reasoning with conditionals and negation operators (e.g. CEM and wide and narrow-scope negation). As part of the investigation, participants' entailment judgments are evaluated against their probability evaluations to assess participants' cross-task consistency over two experimental sessions.

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Biscuit Conditionals and Prohibited ‘Then’

Zakkou

2017

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy

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It is generally agreed that there are two kinds of indicative conditionals that do not contain conditional 'then.' There are hypothetical conditionals such as 'If Mary has done the groceries, there is beer in the fridge' and there are biscuit conditionals such as 'If you are thirsty, there is beer in the fridge.' There is also broad consensus that we cannot find an analogous distinction between hypothetical and biscuit conditionals within indicative conditionals that do feature 'then.' Conditionals containing 'then,' it is assumed, are uniformly read as hypothetical conditionals. In this article, I shall argue that there are biscuit conditionals featuring 'then.' This result, I take it, is not only interesting on its own. It also puts pressure on the popular view that conditional 'then' triggers the presupposition that in some situations in which the conditional's antecedent is not true, its consequent is not true either.

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The grammar of discourse: The case of then

Cited by 10 publications

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Denn as a highlighting-sensitive particle

Denn as a highlighting-sensitive particle

The Dialogical Entailment Task

Biscuit Conditionals and Prohibited ‘Then’

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