QUDs, brevity, and the asymmetry of alternatives

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• dc.contributor.author Westera, Matthijsca
• dc.date.accessioned 2018-10-10T09:48:39Z
• dc.date.available 2018-10-10T09:48:39Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description Comunicació presentada al Amsterdam Colloquium 2017, celebrat a Amsterdam (Holanda) del 20 a 22 de desembre de 2017
• dc.description.abstract Exhaustivity is typically explained in terms of the exclusion of unmentioned alternatives. For this to work, the set of alternatives must be asymmetrical, lest both a proposition and its negation get excluded, yielding a contradiction (the Symmetry Problem). Since exhaustivity is regularly observed, these alternative sets must tend to be asymmetrical, and this requires an explanation. Existing explanations are based on considerations of brevity, but these run into certain problems. A new solution is proposed, explaining the asymmetry of alternatives in terms of the fact that discourse strategies with asymmetrical questions under discussion (Quds) are favored because they allow part of the answer to be communicated implicitly, namely as an exhaustivity implicature.
• dc.description.sponsorship Many thanks to Floris Roelofsen and Jeroen Groenendijk for their comments on many iterations of this work. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 715154). This paper reflects the authors’ view only, and the EU is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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• dc.identifier.citation Westera M. QUDs, brevity, and the asymmetry of alternatives. In: Cremers A, van Gessel T, Roelofsen F, editors. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium; 2017 Dec 20-22; Amsterdam, Holland. Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam; 2017. p. 502-10.
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35591
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)ca
• dc.relation.ispartof Cremers A, van Gessel T, Roelofsen F, editors. Proceedings of the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium; 2017 Dec 20-22; Amsterdam, Holland. Amsterdam: ILLC, University of Amsterdam; 2017. p. 502-10.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/715154
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• dc.subject.keyword Symmetry problem
• dc.subject.keyword Scalar implicature
• dc.subject.keyword Exhaustivity
• dc.subject.keyword Question under discussion
• dc.subject.keyword Discourse strategy
• dc.subject.keyword Alternatives
• dc.title QUDs, brevity, and the asymmetry of alternativesca
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