Clemens Mayr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3861975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clemens Mayr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clemens |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayr |
| SIGNATURE | MAYR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intervention Effects with Negation
Negation inhibits certain wh-dependencies. This chapter investigates two kinds of intervention effects: negative islands such as *How didn’t John behave? and Beck-effects such as *Which student did no one give which book to? It is shown that both types of intervention effects call for a semantic or pragmatic rather than a syntactic explanation. At the same time, it is argued that the two types should not be reduced to one. Different semantic and …
Triviality and interrogative embedding: Context Sensitivity, Factivity, and Neg-Raising
Asymmetric Coordination
This chapter discusses asymmetric coordination, starting with a general discussion and then zooming in on a particular instance thereof found in German and other V2 languages. This latter construction resists a straightforward analysis in terms of subordination, yet lacks some of the symptoms of coordinate structures – namely, the requirement that movement has to happen across‐the‐board. It therefore represents an interesting data set for the inv…
A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context
The present paper discusses novel data which are problematic for assertability conditions based on redundancy (Stalnaker 1979, Fox 2008, Schlenker 2009, Singh 2007, Chierchia 2009, Meyer 2013, Katzir & Singh 2014 among others). The problem comes from disjunctions like Either Mary isn’t pregnant or (she is and) it doesn’t show and in particular from the optional presence of she is (pregnant). These data are even more puzzling if compared to corres…
Intervention Effects and Additivity
By discussing a novel paradigm, it is shown that the likeliness of an operator to trigger an intervention effect in a wh-in-situ question is determined by the logical properties of that operator (contra Beck 1996a, 2006, for instance). A new empirical generalization accounting for the differences between operators in their ability to cause intervention and improving on existing analyses is suggested. This generalization is fully predictive and al…
Focusing bound pronouns
Focusing bound pronouns
Intervention Effects and Additivity
By discussing a novel paradigm, it is shown that the likeliness of an operator to trigger an intervention effect in a wh-in-situ question is determined by the logical properties of that operator (contra Beck 1996a, 2006, for instance). A new empirical generalization accounting for the differences between operators in their ability to cause intervention and improving on existing analyses is suggested. This generalization is fully predictive and al…
A puzzle for theories of redundancy: Exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context
The present paper discusses novel data which are problematic for assertability conditions based on redundancy (Stalnaker 1979, Fox 2008, Schlenker 2009, Singh 2007, Chierchia 2009, Meyer 2013, Katzir & Singh 2014 among others). The problem comes from disjunctions like Either Mary isn’t pregnant or (she is and) it doesn’t show and in particular from the optional presence of she is (pregnant). These data are even more puzzling if compared to corres…
Asymmetric Coordination
This chapter discusses asymmetric coordination, starting with a general discussion and then zooming in on a particular instance thereof found in German and other V2 languages. This latter construction resists a straightforward analysis in terms of subordination, yet lacks some of the symptoms of coordinate structures – namely, the requirement that movement has to happen across‐the‐board. It therefore represents an interesting data set for the inv…
Triviality and interrogative embedding: Context Sensitivity, Factivity, and Neg-Raising
Intervention Effects with Negation
Negation inhibits certain wh-dependencies. This chapter investigates two kinds of intervention effects: negative islands such as *How didn’t John behave? and Beck-effects such as *Which student did no one give which book to? It is shown that both types of intervention effects call for a semantic or pragmatic rather than a syntactic explanation. At the same time, it is argued that the two types should not be reduced to one. Different semantic and …
Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Programming language (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Intervention (counseling) (2 works)