Florian Schwarz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Florian Schwarz plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 13. Developmental insights into gappy phenomena: Comparing presupposition, implicature, homogeneity, and vagueness Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 302–324 | Chapter
In natural language, we encounter various sentence types that, under certain circumstances, are evaluated as neither true nor false. For instance, it is intuitively difficult to assess the truth value of a sentence whose presupposition is not satisfied in the context. A common theoretical approach… read more
2014 How weak and how definite are Weak Definites? Weak Referentiality, Aguilar-Guevara, Ana, Bert Le Bruyn and Joost Zwarts (eds.), pp. 213–235 | Article
This paper explores the potential for a unified analysis of Weak Definites and regular definites. I first consider and argue against assimilating Weak Definites to co-varying interpretations of regular definites via general mechanisms. Next, I present a new proposal for analyzing Weak Definites,… read more