Properties of <i>It</i>-Cleft Presupposition

Delin, Judy

doi:10.1093/jos/9.4.289

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“…Focus-background it-clefts-with the bipartite structure consisting of a focused cleft pivot and a backgrounded existential presupposition cleft relative-have been claimed to be licensed by discourse-semantic factors, for instance, by discoursestructural (Delin 1992;Delin & Oberlander 1995) or metalinguistic discourse factors (Destruel & Velleman 2014); cf. common-ground management in Krifka 2008.…”

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Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study

DeVeaugh-Geiss

Zimmermann

Onea

et al. 2015

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We present two empirical studies on exclusives, it-clefts, and pseudoclefts (i.e., identity statements with a definite description) in which the at-issue and not-at-issue content-a factor that has not been properly controlled for in prior experimental work on cleft exhaustivity-were teased apart systematically. The results show that violations of exhaustivity in it-clefts, a not-at-issue inference, patterned differently from the necessary presupposition failures of the not-at-issue semantic inferences. These findings pose a new experimental challenge to semantic accounts of exhaustivity in it-clefts, while being in line with pragmatic accounts.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study

DeVeaugh-Geiss

Zimmermann

Onea

et al. 2015

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“…Appositives (Potts, 2002a,b;Schlenker, 2010Schlenker, , 2009 xii. Clefts (Soames, 1982;Delin, 1992Delin, , 1995Prince, 1986) xiii. Discourse particles like "even" and "only" (von Fintel, 1999;Büring & Hartmann, 2001;Beaver & Clark, 2008), German "überhaupt" (Anderssen, 2011;Rojas-Esponda, 2014), German "wieder " (Blutner & Jäger, 2003) xiv.…”

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Presupposition and Implicature

Potts¹

2015

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

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“…In clefts, if the constituent 2 In this paper, we leave aside what Hedberg (1990) The flip side of the obligatory focal status of the pivot is the obligatory discourse-given status of the cleft-clause. For a cleft to be felicitous, the information conveyed by the cleft-clause must be explicitly mentioned or, minimally, readily accessible in the active discourse context (Rochemont 1986, Delin 1992, Lambrecht 2001. In fact, some authors have suggested that the cleft clause is anaphoric to the current Question Under Discussion (Velleman et al 2012, Abrusan 2016.…”

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Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors in Children’s Comprehension of Cleft Constructions

Aravind

Hackl

Wexler

2017

Language Acquisition

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We present a series of experiments investigating English-speaking children's comprehension of it-clefts and wh-pseudoclefts. Previous developmental work has found children to have asymmetric difficulties interpreting object clefts. We show that these difficulties disappear when clefts are presented in felicitous contexts, where children behave adult-like both in their evaluation of the truth of cleft sentences and in their response time patterns. When the pragmatic requirements on cleft use were not satisfied, children succeeded only on some types of clefts.However, they did not uniformly show difficulties with infelicitous object clefts; rather, success correlated with the amenability of the structure to a word order based parsing strategy. We argue that children fail to build an adult-like representation for infelicitous clefts across-the-board, but pressures to carry out the task lead them to adopt interpretive means outside of what is licensed in adult grammar.2

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Properties of It-Cleft Presupposition

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Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study

Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: An empirical study

Presupposition and Implicature

Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors in Children’s Comprehension of Cleft Constructions

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