Janek Guerrini
Biographic Data
| ID | 8655842 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janek Guerrini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janek |
| FAMILY NAME | Guerrini |
| SIGNATURE | GUERRINI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6605-8358 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Against wide scope free choice
Sentences of the form "x may A or x may B" have a reading that implies "x may A" and "x may B". This has led many to conclude that there is a specific problem of wide-scope free choice, namely, the problem of explaining how a disjunction of possibilities ◇A ∨ ◇B can receive a reading that implies its disjuncts. We argue that this conclusion is mistaken: once we consider a broader range of data, it becomes plausible that the relevant reading in fa…
Distributive kind predication
), have definite, non-generic uses in sentences expressing generalizations that were traditionally thought to uniformly involve generic quantification. These non-generic uses explain why the distribution of kind-denoting plurals in sentences expressing generalizations is wider as compared to singular indefinites, which can only appear in generalizations that have a genuinely generic Logical Form (Sects. 3-5). Second, the paper draws on a contrast…
Homogeneity as presuppositional exhaustification
The goal of this paper is to reconcile two observations regarding homogeneity and non-maximality. First, homogeneity is sensitive to constraints on presupposition accommodation, both in the positive case and under negation (Wehbe 2022). Second, there are asymmetries between positive and negative sentences with definite plurals (Bar-Lev 2021). We argue that taken together, these two observations support an account of homogeneity in terms of presup…
Numerous -like predicates in bare plural generics
In this paper, we discuss the unavailability of generic constructions when a bare plural is modified by ‘numerous’: for instance, ‘gathered students are loud’ has a salient generic reading roughly equivalent to ‘when they are gathered, students are loud’. ‘Numerous students are loud’, instead, only has a quantificational reading: it can only mean that the number of students being loud is high, and lacks a generic reading equivalent to ‘when stude…
Keeping Fake Simple
In this paper, I argue against two common claims about so-called privative adjectives like ‘fake’: first, I argue against the idea that their semantic complexity requires a richer notion of lexical meaning than the standard one (see, e.g., Del Pinal, 2018); second, I argue against the idea that ‘fake’ is a subsective adjective ‘in disguise’ and does not semantically negate its input (see, e.g., Partee, 2010). I propose that a fake P is (i) intend…
Linguistic inferences from pro-speech music
Question-answer dynamics and confirmation theory in reasoning by representativeness
We show that probabilistic decision-making behavior characteristic of reasoning by representativeness or typicality arises in minimalistic settings lacking many of the features previously thought to be necessary conditions for the phenomenon. Specifically, we develop a version of a classical experiment by Kahneman and Tversky (1973) on base-rate neglect, where participants have full access to the probabilistic distribution, conveyed entirely visu…
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Question-answer dynamics and confirmation theory in reasoning by representativeness
We show that probabilistic decision-making behavior characteristic of reasoning by representativeness or typicality arises in minimalistic settings lacking many of the features previously thought to be necessary conditions for the phenomenon. Specifically, we develop a version of a classical experiment by Kahneman and Tversky (1973) on base-rate neglect, where participants have full access to the probabilistic distribution, conveyed entirely visu…
Linguistic inferences from pro-speech music
Numerous -like predicates in bare plural generics
In this paper, we discuss the unavailability of generic constructions when a bare plural is modified by ‘numerous’: for instance, ‘gathered students are loud’ has a salient generic reading roughly equivalent to ‘when they are gathered, students are loud’. ‘Numerous students are loud’, instead, only has a quantificational reading: it can only mean that the number of students being loud is high, and lacks a generic reading equivalent to ‘when stude…
Keeping Fake Simple
In this paper, I argue against two common claims about so-called privative adjectives like ‘fake’: first, I argue against the idea that their semantic complexity requires a richer notion of lexical meaning than the standard one (see, e.g., Del Pinal, 2018); second, I argue against the idea that ‘fake’ is a subsective adjective ‘in disguise’ and does not semantically negate its input (see, e.g., Partee, 2010). I propose that a fake P is (i) intend…
Homogeneity as presuppositional exhaustification
The goal of this paper is to reconcile two observations regarding homogeneity and non-maximality. First, homogeneity is sensitive to constraints on presupposition accommodation, both in the positive case and under negation (Wehbe 2022). Second, there are asymmetries between positive and negative sentences with definite plurals (Bar-Lev 2021). We argue that taken together, these two observations support an account of homogeneity in terms of presup…
Against wide scope free choice
Sentences of the form "x may A or x may B" have a reading that implies "x may A" and "x may B". This has led many to conclude that there is a specific problem of wide-scope free choice, namely, the problem of explaining how a disjunction of possibilities ◇A ∨ ◇B can receive a reading that implies its disjuncts. We argue that this conclusion is mistaken: once we consider a broader range of data, it becomes plausible that the relevant reading in fa…
Distributive kind predication
), have definite, non-generic uses in sentences expressing generalizations that were traditionally thought to uniformly involve generic quantification. These non-generic uses explain why the distribution of kind-denoting plurals in sentences expressing generalizations is wider as compared to singular indefinites, which can only appear in generalizations that have a genuinely generic Logical Form (Sects. 3-5). Second, the paper draws on a contrast…
Computer Science (5 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Plural (2 works)