Martin Kriz

Biographic Data

ID695820
NAMEMartin Kriz
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMEKriz
SIGNATUREKRIZ M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Vienna
ORCID0000-0002-5968-6436
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Interpreting plural predication: Homogeneity and non-maximality

    Open AccessMartin Kriz, Bert Spector et al.ARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2021

    Plural definite descriptions across many languages display two well-known properties. First, they can give rise to so-called non-maximal readings, in the sense that they ‘allow for exceptions’ ( Mary read the books on the reading list , in some contexts, can be judged true even if Mary didn’t read all the books on the reading list). Second, while they tend to have a quasi-universal quantificational force in affirmative sentences (‘quasi-universal…

  • Conceptual alternatives: Competition in language and beyond

    Open AccessBrian Buccola, Martin Kriz et al.ARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2021

  • Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions

    Open AccessLyn Tieu, Martin Kriz et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2019

    Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive "The trucks are blue" and the negative "The trucks aren't blue" are both neither true nor false when some of the trucks are blue and some are not, that is, when the group of trucks is not homogeneous with respect to the property of being blue (Löbner 1987, 2000; Schwarzschild 1994; Križ 2015c). The only existing acquisition studies related to the phenomenon have examined …

  • Homogeneity effects in natural language semantics

    Open AccessMartin KrizARTICLELanguage and Linguistics Compass2019Cited by: 2References: 22

    Natural language sentences in which a property is ascribed to a plurality of objects have truth conditions that are not complementary with the truth conditions of the negations of such sentences. Starting from this observation, this paper presents an overview of so-calledhomogeneity effects. Arguably a pervasive feature of natural language, homogeneity has reflexes in various domains and opens up a prospect for a unified analysis of phenomena tha…

  • Probability Judgments of Gappy Sentences

    Open AccessAnita Cremers, Alexandre Cremers et al.CHAPTERLinguistic and Psycholinguistic…2017

  • Homogeneity, Non-Maximality, and all

    Martin Kriz, Manuel KrižARTICLEJournal of Semantics2016

    This article develops a theory of the non-maximal readings of sentences with plural definite descriptions that treats them as a pragmatic phenomenon that arises from the context-dependent interaction of the well-known homogeneity property of plural predication on the one hand, with independent pragmatic principles on the other. This allows us to, among other things, explain the dual effect of all : as a matter of its semantics, it removes the hom…

  • Two methods to find truth-value gaps and their application to the projection problem of homogeneity

    Open AccessMartin Kriz, Manuel Križ et al.ARTICLENatural Language Semantics2015Cited by: 5References: 26

  • It's that, and that's it! Exhaustivity and homogeneity presuppositions in clefts (and definites)

    Open AccessDaneel Buring, Daniel Büring et al.ARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2013

    This paper proposes a way to encode exhaustivity in clefts as a presupposition, something which has been claimed to be adequate, but never successfully implemented. We furthermore show that the facts that prompted the need for such an analysis carry over to identity sentences with definite DPs and propose a way to achieve the same presuppositions for definite DPs. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.6.6 BibTeX info