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Meaning Meeting - Lydia Quevedo / Neg Raising

Lydia Quevedo, a PhD student in Linguistics, smiling at the camera, standing in a garden.

Meaning Meeting - Lydia Quevedo / Neg Raising

Linguistics Monday, April 24, 2023 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Marie Mount Hall, 1401 (Blue Room)

Monday April 24, Lydia Quevedo asks why only some predicates permit neg-raising interpretations: for example, "think" but not "say." She develops the question in relation to a 2022 SALT paper by Paloma Jeretič which analyzes neg-raising with belief predicates as a kind of implicature. On that analysis, "John doesn't think it's snowing" can mean something like 'Only this is true: not all of John's belief worlds have snow,' and by this a speaker may mean that there is snow in none of John's belief worlds, via a grammaticalized form of lower-bounding implicature. 

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Monday April 24, Lydia Quevedo asks why only some predicates permit neg-raising interpretations: for example, "think" but not "say." She develops the question in relation to a 2022 SALT paper by Paloma Jeretič which analyzes neg-raising with belief predicates as a kind of implicature. On that analysis, "John doesn't think it's snowing" can mean something like 'Only this is true: not all of John's belief worlds have snow,' and by this a speaker may mean that there is snow in none of John's belief worlds, via a grammaticalized form of lower-bounding implicature. 

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