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Reasoning with Polysemes: When Default Inferences Beat Contextual Information

Fischer E., Lazaridou-Chatzigoga D., & Hazel K.

2024

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English middles and implicit argments

Benjamin Bruening

2024

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Are Generics Defaults? A Study on the Interpretation of Generics and Universals in 3 Age-Groups of Spanish-Speaking Individuals.

Castroviejo, E., Hernández-Conde, J., Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, D., Ponciano, M. & Vicente, A.

2023

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Modeling progress: causal models, event types, and the imperfective paradox

Prerna Nadathur and Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal

2023

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When tense shifts presuppositions: hani and monstrous semantics

Furkan Dikmen, Elena Guerzoni & Ömer Demirok

2023

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What we mean when we say semantic: A Consensus statement on the nomenclature of semantic memory

Jamie Reilly et al.

2023

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Can you See? Actuality Entailments in the Present

Anouk Dieuleveut

2023

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Super Linguistics: an introduction

Pritty Patel-Grosz, Salvador Mascarenhas, Emmanuel Chemla, and Philippe Schlenker

2023

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The Italian futuro as a non-biased epistemic necessity: a reply to Ippolito and Farkas

Anastasia Giannakidou and Alda Mari

2023

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Varieties of Conditionals as Definite Descriptions

Muyi Yang

2023

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The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful?

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