Julian Grove

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New work with @aaron : https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007450.

There's been debate recently about the discrete versus gradient nature of factive presuppositions ('Jo knows X' ~> X): specifically, whether factive predicates support inferences that are on a par with entailments, insofar as they are all-or-nothing - or something a bit weaker, giving rise to a boost to the likelihood that X is true without putting it on a par with other types of semantically licensed inference.

Factivity, presupposition projection, and the role of discrete knowlege in gradient inference judgments - lingbuzz/007450

We investigate whether the factive presuppositions associated with some clause-embedding predicates are fundamentally discrete in nature - as classically assumed - or fundamentally gradient - as recen - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive