%0 Journal Article
%T only: A Case Study In Projective Meaning
%A Craige Roberts
%J The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
%D 2010
%I New Prairie Press
%R 10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1581
%X I offer an integrated theory of the meaning of only in which the prejacent, while not presupposed, is both entailed and backgrounded, hence tends to project (following a general proposal about projection due to Simons et al. 2010). Moreover, I argue, contra Beaver & Brady (2008), that only is not conventionally associated with focus, the focus effects arising instead pragmatically. But I do adopt aspects of their semantics for only, including the presupposition of a pre-order over the elements of its domain. References Abbott, B. 2000. ＆Presuppositions as non-assertions＊. Journal of Pragmatics 32: 1419每37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00108-3 Abbott, B. 2008. ＆Presuppositions and common ground＊. Linguistics and Philosophy 31: 523每538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-008-9048-8 Amaral, P. 2010. ＆Entailment, assertion, and textual coherence: the case of almost and barely＊. Linguistics 48, no. 3: 525每545. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/LING.2010.016 Amaral, P., Roberts, C. & Allyn Smith, E. 2008. ＆Review of The Logic of Conventional Implicature by Chris Potts＊. Linguistics and Philosophy 30: 707每749. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-008-9025-2 Atlas, J. D. 1993. ＆The importance of being ※only§: testing the neo-Gricean versus neoentailment paradigms＊. Journal of Semantics 10: 301每18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/10.4.301 Beaver, D. 2001. Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. Beaver, D. 2010. ＆Handout from a talk on projective meaning＊. Stuttgart, Germany. Beaver, D. & Brady, C. 2003. ＆Always and Only: Why not all focus sensitive operators are alike＊. Natural Language Semantics 11: 323每62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1025542629721 Beaver, D. & Brady, C. 2008. Sense and Sensitivity. Blackwell. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444304176 Beckman, M. E. & Ayers, G. M. 1994. ＆Guidelines for ToBI labeling guide, ver. 2.0＊. On-line at The Ohio State University: www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~tobi/. Chierchia, G. & McConnell-Ginet, S. 1990. Meaning and Grammar: An introduction to semantics. MIT Press, Cambridge. Cohen, A. 1999. ＆How Are Alternatives Computed?＊ Journal of Semantics 16: 43每65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/16.1.43 Coppock, E. & Beaver, D. 2010. ＆Mere-ology: Toward a unified analysis of mere and other exclusives＊. Slides for a talk at the Workshop on Alternative Semantics, Lund, France. de Swart, H. 1991. Adverbs of quantification: a Generalized Quantifier approach. Ph.D. thesis, University of Groningen. F谷ry, C. & Samek-Lodovici, V. 2006. ＆Focus projection and prosodic prominence in nested foci＊. Language 82
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