Triggering domain restriction. (22nd November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mankowitz, Poppy
• Is Part Of: Mind & language. Volume 34:Number 5(2019:Nov.)
• Page Start: 563
• Page End: 584
• Publication Date: 2018-11-22
• Subjects: domain restriction -- information structure -- pragmatics -- quantifier expressions -- semantics; Psycholinguistics -- Periodicals; Thought and thinking -- Periodicals; Language and languages -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 153.42
• DOI: 10.1111/mila.12222
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0268-1064

Abstract

Abstract : It is well known that occurrences of sentences such as "Every bottle is empty" will sometimes be understood relative to a subset of the set of all bottles in the universe. Much has been written about what mechanism should be used to model this phenomenon of domain restriction. However, comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of when domain restriction is triggered. I will begin by challenging a recent partial answer to this question. I will then develop my own partial answer based on observations pertaining to information structure.