Dynamic excursions on weak islands

Specifically, Dynamic excursions on weak islands explores the consequences of the novel claim that WIs reduce to the same principles of dynamic semantics that account for inaccessibility. In addition, it examines in both empirical and theoretical terms the precise relationship between the dynamic theory of WIs and Szabolcsi & Zwarts’s (1993) algebraic semantic approach. This inquiry leads to a number of further developments of dynamic semantics, such as an intensional version of Existential Disclosure and an algorithm for computing the dynamic properties of an expression on the basis of its Boolean properties.

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