Abstract
This squib studies the order in which elements are added to the shared context of interlocutors in a conversation. It focuses on context updates within one hierarchical structure and argues that structurally higher elements are entered into the context before lower elements, even if the structurally higher elements are pronounced after the lower elements. The crucial data are drawn from a comparison of relative clauses in two head-initial languages, English and Icelandic, and two head-final languages, Korean and Japanese. The findings have consequences for any theory of a dynamic semantics.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 37 |
| Number of pages | 37 |
| Journal | Glossa |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Oct 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I would like to thank Florian Schwarz, Jim Wood, and the participants of classes and seminars on semantics and presuppositions at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013–2016 for insightful comments and discussions. Special thanks to Dorothy Ahn and Satoshi Nambu for helping with the data from Korean and Japanese, respectively, both in terms of constructing appropriate examples and giving their native speaker acceptability judgments which are reported in the paper. Thanks to the editorial team of Glossa and three anonymous reviewers. The reviewing process resulted in valuable improvements to the paper. All remaining mistakes are mine. This work was in part supported by NSF Grant BCS-1349009 to Florian Schwarz.
Funding Information:
I would like to thank Florian Schwarz, Jim Wood, and the participants of classes and seminars on semantics and presuppositions at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013?2016 for insightful comments and discussions. Special thanks to Dorothy Ahn and Satoshi Nambu for helping with the data from Korean and Japanese, respectively, both in terms of constructing appropriate examples and giving their native speaker acceptability judgments which are reported in the paper. Thanks to the editorial team of Glossa and three anonymous reviewers. The reviewing process resulted in valuable improvements to the paper. All remaining mistakes are mine. This work was in part supported by NSF Grant BCS-1349009 to Florian Schwarz.
Publisher Copyright:
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Other keywords
- Hierarchy
- Pragmatics
- Redundancy
- Dynamic semantics
- Common Ground
- Málnotkunarfræði
- Merkingarfræði