Rooth-Partee conditionals and the symmetry of disjunction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12859639
AutoresYael Sharvit (0000-0002-6295-7903, University of California, Los Angeles, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume22
Fascículo5
Páginas939-979
Data de publicação2025-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIntercultural Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1612-295X • E-ISSN: 1613-365X
EditoraDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ip-2025-5004
OpenAlexW7115565736
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas33

It is argued that or is inherently symmetric, based on the intuitive equivalence of If x is P or Q, then y is and If x is Q or P, then y is – referred to as Rooth-Partee conditionals. As observed in Rooth and Partee [1982. Conjunction, type ambiguity and wide scope or. In Daniel P. Flickinger, Marlys Macken & Nancy Wiegand (eds.), Proceedings of WCCFL , vol. 1], the elided phrase in the consequent clause of these conditionals brings about a reading paraphrased as If x is P, y is P, and if x is Q, y is Q . Accounting for that reading proves to be problematic for asymmetric approaches to or , even those that rely on presupposition accommodation

Ambiguity · Completeness (order theory · Equivalence (formal languages · Phrase · Presupposition · Reading (process · Scope (computer science · Symmetry (geometry · Logic, programming, and type systems · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation