2015
DOI: 10.3765/sp.8.7
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Dual Content Semantics, privative adjectives, and dynamic compositionality

Abstract: This paper defends the view that common nouns have a dual semantic structure that includes extension-determining and non-extensiondetermining components. I argue that the non-extension-determining components are part of linguistic meaning because they play a key compositional role in certain constructions, especially in privative noun phrases such as fake gun and counterfeit document. Furthermore, I show that if we modify the compositional interpretation rules in certain simple ways, this dual content account … Show more

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“…This may be intuitively unsurprising, but it does not sit well with formal semantic theories that emphasise the underlying similarity between modal and temporal adjectives, such as their behaviour vis-à-vis entailment (Partee, 2009). Our behavioural and ERP data are more consistent with analyses that emphasise differences between modal and temporal adjectives in the specific ways they encode privativity (Del Pinal, 2015).…”
Section: Effects Of Intensionality: N400 Modulationssupporting
confidence: 84%
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“…This may be intuitively unsurprising, but it does not sit well with formal semantic theories that emphasise the underlying similarity between modal and temporal adjectives, such as their behaviour vis-à-vis entailment (Partee, 2009). Our behavioural and ERP data are more consistent with analyses that emphasise differences between modal and temporal adjectives in the specific ways they encode privativity (Del Pinal, 2015).…”
Section: Effects Of Intensionality: N400 Modulationssupporting
confidence: 84%
“…a subset of) the denotation of the noun (e.g. a fake diamond is not a diamond), privative temporal adjectives, like "former", or "future" etc., modify a noun's meaning by restricting the times at which the modified noun gets the default denotation (a former president was a president in the past; for discussion, see Coulson & Fauconnier, 1999;Del Pinal, 2015;Kamp & Partee, 1995;McNally & Boleda, 2004;Partee, 2009Partee, , 2010. We refer to the first class as "modal" because, in intensional semantics, the meaning of these adjectives is captured in terms of possible worlds, or some other equivalent modal notions: a "fake president" is necessarily not a president, i.e.…”
Section: Adjectival Modification and Intensional Semanticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When that happens, the aim of the commitment changes from function d to function c , but, crucially, it continues to be represented as an end in itself. The DCCs which represent social roles likely include other dimensions (Del Pinal, ; Pustejovsky, ), which for simplicity we ignore here…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When that happens, the aim of the commitment changes from function d to function c , but, crucially, it continues to be represented as an end in itself. The DCCs which represent social roles likely include other dimensions (Del Pinal, 2015;Pustejovsky, 1995), which for simplicity we ignore here. 8 As we mentioned above, we assume that conceptual representations can encode the relative weights of, and the dependency relations between, features and dimensions (Hampton, 2006;Hampton et al, 2009;Sloman et al, 1998).…”
Section: Dccs In Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%
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