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Triggering domain restriction
Author(s) -
Mankowitz Poppy
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12222
Subject(s) - domain (mathematical analysis) , phenomenon , set (abstract data type) , mechanism (biology) , epistemology , computer science , universe , cognitive science , philosophy , psychology , mathematics , physics , programming language , mathematical analysis , astrophysics
It is well known that occurrences of sentences such as “Every bottle is empty” will sometimes be understood relative to a subset of the set of all bottles in the universe. Much has been written about what mechanism should be used to model this phenomenon of domain restriction. However, comparatively little attention has been paid to the question of when domain restriction is triggered. I will begin by challenging a recent partial answer to this question. I will then develop my own partial answer based on observations pertaining to information structure.