Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning
By David I. Beaver, B. Clark. 2008
632 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Christopher Potts
- Gennaro Chierchia
- Craige Roberts
- Mandy Simons
- Judith Tonhauser
- Elizabeth Coppock
- David I. Beaver
- Hedde Zeijlstra
In Sociology and Political Science
- Christopher Potts
- Gennaro Chierchia
- Craige Roberts
- Mandy Simons
- Judith Tonhauser
- Elizabeth Coppock
- David I. Beaver
Citations in the corpus
- Toward a Taxonomy of Projective Content (2013, methodology): “…already been successfully used in experimental research on scalar implicatures (e.g. Geurts et al. 2010) and presuppositions (e.g. Schwarz 2007, Beaver & Clark 2008, Chemla 2009), where a common paradigm is to ask linguistically untrained participants to assess whether an utterance has a…”
- Negation, Polarity, and Deontic Modals (2013, background): “12 The condition that focus must be c-commanded by its licenser at surface structure has been challenged for licensing by even (Rooth 1985) and only (Wagner 2006), and for negation as well (Beaver and Clark 2008, pointed out to us by Maziar Toosarvandani (pers. comm.)).”
- On the negativity of negation (2010, methodology): “Keywords: scales, negation, negative polarity, expressives, corpus pragmatics”
- Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention (2013, background): “Beaver and Clark (2008) is very relevant to clarifying such connection. Romoli (2012) uses Beaver and Clark’s approach to link the representations in (70a,b) to focus via the notion of Question under Discussion.”