Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus

By Nirit Kadmon. 2001

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Predicting the presuppositions of soft triggers (2011, background): “Such effects have been recently discussed in Beaver (2004) and Kadmon (2001).”
When Semantics Meets Phonetics: Acoustical Studies of Second-Occurrence Focus (2007, background): “These include Vallduv́ı (1990), Rooth (1992), Dryer (1994), Roberts (1996), Büring (1997), Schwarzschild (1997), Williams (1997), Kadmon (2001), and Martı́ (2003), all of whom interpret second occurrence focus data as favoring strong accounts of association with focus phenomena over weak accounts.”
The role of contrastive intonation contours in the retrieval of contextual alternatives (2010, background): “Accommodation is mainly discussed in the semantics and pragmatics literature and describes ‘the phenomenon of accommodating (inserting) something into the context that has not been explicitly mentioned’ (Kadmon, 2001, p. 174).”
Most “babies” are “little” and most “problems” are “huge”: Compositional Entailment in Adjective-Nouns (2016, background): “People often draw conclusions based on “assump-tions that seem plausible, rather than assumptions that are known to be true” (Kadmon, 2001).”