1–2 |
Introduction: Environments, operators, and the Condition |
Entailment, entailment-reversal, non-monotonicity, negated DPs (PDF) |
3 |
Environments and modified numeral quantifiers |
Modified numeral quantifiers with distributive vs. collective predicates, maximal informativity, preview of the explanation (PDF) |
4 |
Strawson entailment and definite descriptions |
Strawson entailment, surprise, only, singular definite descriptions (PDF) |
5 |
Strawson entailment and definite descriptions, cont'd |
Extension of the entailment relation, decomposing definites, partitives, distributivity operator (PDF) |
6 |
Strawson entailment and definite descriptions, cont'd |
Conjunction, type-shifting, event semantics, thematic roles, exhaustivity (PDF) |
7 |
Modality, free choice, and exhaustification |
Existential modals, exhaustification, revision of the Condition (PDF) |
8 |
Modality, free choice, and exhaustification, cont'd |
Existence presupposition, constraints and requirements on pruning (PDF) |
9 |
Modality, free choice, and exhaustification, cont'd |
Exceptives, approximatives, reconstruction, universal modals, mass vs. count nouns (PDF) |
10 |
Towards an explanation |
Other modal environments, Hindi NPIs, probability, and explanation (PDF) |
11 |
Non-monotonicity and some challenges |
Additivity, singular definites, accommodation, non-monotone quantifiers, desire predicates (PDF) |
12 |
Non-monotonicity and some challenges, cont'd |
Intervention, minimizers, and variation (PDF) |