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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"von fintel"”.
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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
… from an observation about the predictions of von Fintel's 1999 theory of NPI licensing when combined with those of a scope theory of ambiguities in superlative utterances: when -est takes scope at the VP level or higher, it fails to license the particular logical inference (Strawson-Downward …
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The Semantics of Indicative Mood Modal Constructions
… here is similar to that of John Hawthorne and von Fintel and Gillies. A major component of the thesis is a careful study of the way in which contextual factors affect both the "flavor" of possibility expressed by an utterance and the ability of a speaker to defend their modal claim against …
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Constraining credences
… intuitions dominate semantic theories given by VON FINTEL 2001, GILLIES 2007, and EDGINGTON 2008. In Chapter 2, I state constraints on what credence constitutes a perfect compromise between agents who have different credences in a proposition. It is sometimes taken for granted that disagreeing …
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Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator
<p>This thesis presents a case for a binary modal conditional operator compatible with both circumstantial and epistemic modal bases. Certain contexts involving <em>might</em> conditionals require <em>might</em> to take wide-scope over a conditional proposition. A restrictor-view analysis of …