Universal Free Choice and Innocent Inclusion

The goal of this paper is to provide a global account of universal Free Choice (FC) inferences (argued to be needed in Chemla 2009b). We propose a stronger exhaustivity operator than proposed in Fox (2007), one that doesn't only negate all the Innocently Excludable (IE) alternatives but also as...

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Main Authors: Bar-Lev, Moshe E. (Author), Fox, Danny (Author), Fox, Daniel (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America, 2020-11-18T22:46:29Z.
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