Semantics and Pragmatics


About the Journal

Semantics and Pragmatics (S&P) is a peer-reviewed open access journal. The main content is high quality, original, self-contained research articles on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. While our target audience is primarily academic linguists, we expect to also publish material by, or of relevance to, philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists.

The journal is affiliated with and published by the Linguistic Society of America under its eLanguage initiative, and receives financial support from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin.

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Vol 4 (2011)

Table of Contents

Main Articles

Quantity implicatures, exhaustive interpretation, and rational conversation
Michael Franke
  1:1-82
Explaining presupposition projection with dynamic semantics
Daniel Rothschild
  3:1-43
Wh-islands in degree questions: A semantic approach
Márta Abrusán
  5:1-44
Another argument for embedded scalar implicatures based on oddness in downward entailing environments
Giorgio Magri
  6:1-51
Temporal anaphora across and inside sentences: The function of participles
Corien Bary, Dag Trygve Truslew Haug
  8:1-56

Squibs, Remarks, and Replies

Exhaustivity in questions with non-factives
Daniel Rothschild, Nathan Klinedinst
  2:1-23
Operators or restrictors? A reply to Gillies
Justin Khoo
  4:1-25
Modification in non-combining idioms
Scott McClure
  7:1-7


ISSN: 1937-8912 | Journal doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp