Free Choice Disjunction and Epistemic Possibility

By T. Zimmermann. 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Indeterminate Pronouns: The View from Japanese (2017, neutral): “Exhaustivity inferences have been discussed for the semantics of questions by Groenendijk & Stokhof 1984, and for lists of possibilities by T. E. Zimmermann 2000.”
Exhaustive Interpretation of Complex Sentences (2004, neutral): “19. For example, in Zimmermann (2000) the author distinguishes an open list reading for disjunctions/conjunctions ‘expressing undecidedness or uncertainty whether the list is exhaustive’ (p. 261), but he models this interpretation as a factive weak reading.”
At least et al: The semantic of scalar modifiers (2007, background): “This problem has been discussed at some length by Zimmermann (2000) and Geurts (2005), and we conjecture that whatever turns out to be the right approach for or should also work for at least and at most.”
Conjunctive interpretation of disjunction (2010, background): “Second, according to Zimmermann ( 2000 ), even a disjunctive permission of the form You may do φ or you may do ψ gives rise to the free choice inference, and according to Merin ( 1992 ) a conjunctive permission of the form You may do φ and ψ allows the addressee to perform only φ .”
Quantifiers in Comparatives: A Semantics of Degree Based on Intervals (2002, background): “2 This issue has been much discussed in connection with modals, see Zimmermann(2000) ,”
Focus and uninformativity in Yucatec Maya questions (2012, background): “(63) [Juan wáa anyone else ]F uk’ le sa’-o’ This interpretation for the empty disjunct is the result of grammaticalization of inferences that have been argued to hold (at least pragmatically) of ordinary disjunctions across languages (see, for example, Zimmermann 2000, Geurts 2005, and Simons 2000).”
Two kinds of modified numerals (2010, background): “The mysterious interaction of modified numerals and modals is moreover reminiscent of the interaction of modals and disjunction (Zimmermann 2000; Geurts 2005; Aloni 2007), especially since, on an intuitive level at least, a class B modified numeral like minimally 10 (and, quite obviously, 10 or…”
Children interpret disjunction as conjunction: Consequences for theories of implicature and child development (2016, neutral): “Specifically, complete or exhaustive answers are expressed with falling pitch movement, whereas partial answers are not (e.g., Zimmerman 2000).”
Deliberative modality under epistemic uncertainty (2013, background): “For recent discussions of disjunction, see Zimmermann (2000); Geurts (2005); Simons (2007); Barker (2010).”
Entertaining Alternatives: Disjunctions as Modals (2005, background): “Following Zimmermann (2000), I propose that disjunctions are to be treated as con junctions of modal propositions, and that the essential contribution of 'or' is merely to present a list of alternatives.”