Nathan Klinedinst

Biographic Data

ID1634580
NAMENathan Klinedinst
GIVEN NAMESNathan
FAMILY NAMEKlinedinst
SIGNATUREKLINEDINST N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-0880-2919
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Coordinated ifs and theories of conditionals

    Open AccessNathan KlinedinstARTICLESynthese2024References: 9

    This paper concerns the semantics of coordinated if -clauses, as in (1)-(2). It is argued that the meanings of such sentences are explained straightforwardly on theories of conditionals that tie their non- monotonic behaviour to the if -clause itself (e.g. Schlenker 2004, but not theories that tie it to a (covert) modal operator (e.g. Kratzer 1981; 1991). Coordinated if -clauses are revealing of the fine-grained compositional semantics of conditi…

  • The symmetry problem

    Open AccessRichard Breheny, Nathan Klinedinst et al.ARTICLENatural Language Semantics2018Cited by: 7References: 27

    The structural approach to alternatives (Katzir in Linguist Philos 30(6):669–690, 2007; Fox and Katzir in Nat Lang Semant 19(1):87–107, 2011; Katzir in Semantics, pragmatics and the case of scalar implicatures, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp 40–71, 2014) is the most developed attempt in the literature at solving the symmetry problem of scalar implicatures. Problematic data with indirect and particularised scalar implicatures have however been rai…

  • Predicates of Relevance and Theories of Question Embedding

    Patrick D Elliott, Nathan Klinedinst et al.ARTICLEJournal of Semantics2017

    Lahiri (2002) classifies question embedding predicates into two major types, rogative and responsive predicates. Rogative predicates like wonder are only compatible with interrogative complements, while responsive predicates like know are also compatible with declarative complements. There are two main theories of responsive predicates: The question-to-proposition reduction approach holds that responsive predicates semantically always select for …

  • Connectives without truth tables

    Open AccessNathan Klinedinst, Daniel RothschildARTICLENatural Language Semantics2012Cited by: 6References: 28

  • Quantified Conditionals and Conditional Excluded Middle

    Nathan KlinedinstARTICLEJournal of Semantics2011

    Higginbotham (1986) observed that quantified conditionals have a stronger meaning than might be expected, as attested by the apparent equivalence of examples like No student will pass if he goofs off and Every student will fail if he goofs off. Higginbotham's observation follows straightforwardly given the validity of conditional excluded middle (CEM; as observed by von Fintel & Iatridou 2002), and as such could be taken as evidence thereof (e.g.…

  • Exhaustivity in questions with non-factives

    Open AccessNathan Klinedinst, Daniel RothschildARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2011

    This paper is concerned with the conditions under which a person can be said to have told someone or predicted (the answer to a question like) 'who sang'. It is standardly claimed that while (i) the true answer must be completely specified, it is not necessary that (ii) it be specified *as being* the complete answer. Here the non-factive verbs 'tell' and 'predict' are said to differ from the factive verb 'know', which typically does impose the *s…