Abstract
It is well known that occurrences of sentences such as “Every bottle is
empty” will sometimes be understood relative to a subset of the set of
all bottles in the universe. Much has been written about what mechanism
should be used to model this phenomenon of domain restriction. However,
comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of when
domain restriction is triggered. I will begin by challenging a recent
partial answer to this question. I will then develop my own partial
answer based on observations pertaining to information structure.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Mind & Language |
Volume | Early View |
Early online date | 22 Nov 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 22 Nov 2018 |
Keywords
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Quantification