Over the past few decades, presupposition and implicature have risen to a pre‐eminent
place in semantics and pragmatics. They are now among the most trusted and widely …

The accent pattern known as verum focus is commonly understood as an ordinary
alternative focus on the truth of a proposition. This standard view, which we call the focus …

The goals of this paper are twofold. The first goal is to argue that there are operators with a
common ground (= CG) managing function that can influence the truth-conditional meaning …

Formal semanticists, as is well known, have found it useful to make certain simplifying
assumptions in approaching the vast field of natural language meaning. 1 Thus, following …

Although the following polar question forms raise the same issue, the positive question Is
Jane coming?, the low negation question Is Jane not coming?, and the high negation …

I develop a general theory of focus and givenness that can account for truly contrastive
focus, and for polarity focus, including data that are sometimes set apart under the label …

Abstract English polar particles yes and no are interchangeable in response to negative
sentences, that is, either one can be used to convey both positive and negative responses …

Empirical evidence is at the heart of research on natural language meaning. Surprisingly,
however, discussions of what constitutes evidence in research on meaning are almost non …

This article argues in favor of the idea that verum can result from focus marking on sentence
mood. The empirical base are verum strategies in Spanish, English and German. It is shown …

This dissertation explores how the interpretation of polar questions and answers to them is
affected by prosody and negation. Phenomena analyzed include polar questions with …