Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study  

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DeVeaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. ; Zimmermann, Malte ; Onea, Edgar ; Boell, Anna-Christina

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 25th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at Stanford University, May 15-17, 2015, page 373-393.
Topik: it-clefts; not-at-issue content; exhaustivity; necessary presupposition failures
Fulltext: 3054-4441-1-PB.pdf (185.02KB)

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We present two empirical studies on exclusives, it-clefts, and pseudoclefts (i.e., identity statements with a definite description) in which the at-issue and not-at-issue content—a factor that has not been properly controlled for in prior experimental work on cleft exhaustivity—were teased apart systematically. The results show that violations of exhaustivity in it-clefts, a not-at-issue inference, patterned differently from the necessary presupposition failures of the not-at issue semantic inferences. These findings pose a new experimental challenge to semantic accounts of exhaustivity in it-clefts, while being in line with pragmatic accounts.

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