Distributive ignorance inferences with wonder and believe
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We observe that verbs like wonder do not just imply that their subject does not know the answer to the embedded question, but a stronger form of ignorance, which we call distributive ignorance. This is not predicted by existing work on the semantics of wonder, and we argue that it cannot be straightforwardly derived as a pragmatic inference either. We consider two possible semantic accounts, an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Pragmatics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1937-8912
DOI: 10.3765/sp.12.5