Paul Marty

Dados Biográficos

ID322926
NOMEPaul Marty
PRENOMESPaul
SOBRENOMEMarty
ASSINATURAMARTY P
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Lisbon
ORCID0000-0003-4459-1933
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS18
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES21
TOTAL COMO AUTOR18
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1919
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Spreading ignorance

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Marco Degano et al.ARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2026

    This squib compares two notions of alternatives. On a familiar pragmatic view, alternatives are relevant propositions a speaker could have conveyed instead of, or in addition to, the asserted sentence. On the inquisitive-semantic view, alternatives are part of a sentence’s semantic value, typically tied to specific lexical operators, and correspond to maximal ways of supporting that sentence. We compare these notions by examining ignorance infere…

  • Counterfactuals and quantificational force

    Open AccessSonia Ramotowska, Paul Marty et al.ARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2025

    Theories of counterfactuals agree on the use of a comparative similarity relation, but disagree about the quantificational force of counterfactual modals. This study reports findings from two experiments designed to evaluate the predictions of three prominent approaches: universal theories, homogeneity theories, and single-world selection theories (supplemented with supervaluations over selection functions). To differentiate the predictions of th…

  • The ups and downs of ignorance

    Open AccessMarco Degano, Paul Marty et al.ARTICLENatural Language Semantics2025Referências: 29

    Plain disjunctive sentences, such as The mystery box contains a blue ball or a yellow ball, typically imply that the speaker does not know which of the two disjuncts is true. This is known as an ignorance inference. We can distinguish between two aspects of this inference: the negated universal upper bound part (i.e., the speaker is uncertain about each disjunct), which we call uncertainty, and the existential lower bound part (i.e., the speaker …

  • What Makes Linguistic Inferences Robust?

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Jacopo Romoli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Semantics2024

    Sentences involving embedded disjunctions give rise to distributive and free choice inferences. These inferences exhibit certain characteristics of Scalar Implicatures (SIs) and some researchers have proposed to treat them as such. This proposal, however, faces an important challenge: experimental results have shown that the two inferences are more robust, faster to process, and easier to acquire than regular SIs. A common response to this challe…

  • Do Languages Have Exclusive Disjunctions

    Open AccessAndreea C Nicolae, Aliona Petrenco et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2024

    Most natural languages have more than one linguistic form available to express disjunction. One of these forms is often reported by native speakers to be more exclusive than the other(s) and, in recent years, it has been claimed that some languages may in fact have dedicated exclusive disjunctions. In this paper, we report on a series of experiments testing this claim across five languages of primary interest. Results show important variation in …

  • Implicature priming, salience, and context adaptation

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Jacopo Romoli et al.ARTICLECognition2024

    Recent experimental research has observed two kinds of priming effects on quantity implicatures. One is the Strong-Weak contrast, where more quantity implicatures are observed after prime trials forcing interpretations with quantity implicatures ('Strong primes') than after prime trials forcing interpretations without quantity implicatures ('Weak primes'). The other effect is the Alternative-Weak contrast, where prime trials mentioning alternativ…

  • Presupposed free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Jacopo RomoliARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2022

    A disjunctive sentence like Olivia took Logic or Algebra conveys that Olivia didn’t take both classes ( exclusivity ) and that the speaker doesn’t know which of the two classes she took ( ignorance ). The corresponding sentence with a possibility modal, Olivia can take Logic or Algebra , conveys instead that she can take Logic and that she can take Algebra ( free choice ). These exclusivity , ignorance and free choice inferences are argued by man…

  • Varieties of Hurford disjunctions

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Jacopo RomoliARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2022

    Hurford 1974 famously observed that a disjunction is generally infelicitous if one of the disjuncts entails the other. Several accounts of Hurford’s observation have been put forward in the literature, grounding the infelicity of the so-called “Hurford disjunctions” into various principles of language use. In this article, we investigate three variants of Hurford’s original cases and we show that none of the major explanatory approaches to “Hurfo…

  • Negative free choice

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Jacopo Romoli et al.ARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2021

    Free Choice (FC) is an inference arising from the interaction between existential modals and disjunction. Schematically, a sentence of the form permitted(A or B) gives rise to the inference ◊A∧◊B. Many competing theories of FC have been proposed but they can be classified into two main groups: one group derives FC as an entailment, while the other derives it as an implicature. By contrast, Negative Free Choice (NFC), the corresponding inference f…

  • Presuppositions, implicatures, and contextual equivalence

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Jacopo RomoliARTICLENatural Language Semantics2021Referências: 34

    Maximize Presupposition! (MP), as originally proposed in Heim (Semantik: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung, pp. 487–535, 1991) and developed in subsequent works, offers an account of the otherwise mysterious unassertability of a variety of sentences. At the core of MP is the idea that speakers are urged to use a sentence ψ over a sentence φ if ψ contributes the same new information as φ , yet carries a stronger presuppos…

  • The effect of three basic task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment tasks

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Emmanuel Chemla et al.ARTICLEGlossa a journal of general…2020

    Sprouse and Almeida (2017) provide a first systematic investigation of the sensitivity of four acceptability judgment tasks. In this project, we build on these results by decomposing those tasks into three constituent task features (single versus joint presentation, number of response options, and use of response labels), and explore the consequences of those task features on the sensitivity of acceptability judgment experiments. We present 6 add…

  • What Do French Inanimate Anaphors Really Show

    Paul MartyARTICLELinguistic Inquiry2020Citada por: 1Referências: 15

  • Scalar implicatures

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Paul P Marty et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2013

    A Scalar Implicature (SI) arises when the use of a relatively weak sentence (e.g., some politicians are corrupt) implies the denial of an alternative, stronger sentence (e.g., not all politicians are corrupt). The cognitive effort associated with the processing of SIs involves central memory resources (De Neys and Schaeken, 2007; Dieussaert et al., 2011; Marty et al., 2013). The goal of this study is to locate this previous result within the curr…

  • Interpreting numerals and scalar items under memory load

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Emmanuel Chemla et al.ARTICLELingua2013Citada por: 8Referências: 28

  • Introduction to the Digital Heritage section

    Paul Marty, Paul F Marty et al.ARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2009

    It is a privilege to introduce the following paper – Critical and reflective uses of new media technologies in tribal museums, by Srinivasan, Enote, Becvar, and Boast – which represents the first r

  • Usability@90mph

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Paul F Marty et al.ARTICLEFirst Monday2005

    This article documents the authors’ attempt to develop a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method for demonstrating user testing to an audience. The resulting method, Usability@90mph, is simple enough to be conducted at minimal expense, fast enough to be completed in only thirty minutes, comprehensible enough to be presented to audiences numbering in the hundreds, and yet sophisticated enough to produce relevant design recommendations, thereby ill…

  • Lost in gallery space

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Paul F Marty et al.ARTICLEFirst Monday2004

    This article reports on a study which used results from 119 scenario–based evaluations of 36 museum Web sites to develop a conceptual framework for analyzing the usability flaws of museum Web sites. It identifies 15 unique dimensions, grouped into five categories, that exemplify usability problems common to many museum Web sites. Each dimension is discussed in detail, and typical examples are provided, based on actual usability flaws observed dur…

  • L'Emirat des Trarzas

    Open AccessPaul Marty, Paul F MartyBOOK1919Citada por: 12

    Invasions berbères (Çanhadja) et arabes (Hassanes)L'histoire, même légendaire, de la Mauritanie, ne remonte pas au delà du Xe siècle de notre ère.La tradition rapporte qu'à cette époque le pays compris entre le fleuve Sénégal et le nord de l'Adrar était occupé par un peuple qu'on présume noir : les Bafour.Au sud du fleuve, dans les pays sénégalais, vivait le peuple socé.Le siège du groupement bafour était dans l'Adrar.L'Azougui actuel, à 15 kilom…