Being pragmatic about biscuits

Biezma, María; Goebel, Arno

doi:10.1007/s10988-022-09368-9

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“…This revised, more flexible notion of CE allows us to both more accurately circumscribe the behavior of PBs and make connections to dynamic accounts of biscuit conditionals such as that of Biezma & Goebel (2023). In Section 3, we will explore this account of biscuit conditionals and several others in greater depth.…”

Section: Biscuit Conditionalsmentioning

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“…Goebel (2017) and Biezma & Goebel (2023) extend this approach to a more predictive version of independence, factual independence, by taking into account law-like dependencies (Veltman 2005) in addition to epistemic states to handle factual conditionals, where the antecedent is a proposition both interlocutors already take for granted.…”

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“…One important factor is how PBs and other conditionals interact with the current question under discussion, or QUD (Roberts 1996). Biezma & Goebel (2023) state that in conditionals generally, the antecedent if -clause typically introduces the question to be addressed or answered by the consequent matrix clause. Often, the question arising from the antecedent p can be phrased as the QUD "What do the selected worlds in which p is true look like?"…”

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“…, as discussed inBiezma & Goebel 2023 (parentheticals ours):(43) If you go swimming there'll be snacks on the other shore . .…”

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“…Swanson takes this to show that CE is an implicature, thoughBiezma & Goebel (2023) argue that the use of in fact and but are used only to correct potential misalignment of presuppositions among discourse participants, presuppositions which would contain assumptions about factual (in)dependence. For our purposes, whether or not CE is an implicature is not important.…”

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Perspectival biscuits

Mulligan,

Rawlins

2024

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This paper describes a novel class of biscuit conditional, the 'perspectival biscuit', which arises when an if-clause containing a generic pronoun (e.g., generic you) is used to shift perspective for the interpretation of a perspective-sensitive item in the consequent: e.g., fixing the directionality of behind in "If you're at the door, the cat is behind the desk." This sentence is like a biscuit conditional in that it entails a fully-specified, propositionally stable consequent describing the spatial configuration of cat and desk, but this reading vanishes in favor of a conditional dependence reading when the antecedent contains any non-generic DP, a prediction that is not straightforwardly accounted for by existing theories of biscuit conditionals. An analysis is given demonstrating that biscuithood for perspectival biscuits arises due to generic quantification exclusively over individuals, not worlds.

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Section: Biscuit Conditionalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pragmatic Inferencementioning

confidence: 99%