@article{Roelofsen_Uegaki_2019, title={The distributive ignorance puzzle}, volume={21}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/180}, abstractNote={<p>We observe that verbs like <em>wonder</em> do not just imply that their subject does not know the answer to the embedded question, but a stronger form of ignorance, which we call <em>distributive ignorance</em>. This is not predicted by existing work on the semantics of <em>wonder</em>, and we argue that it cannot be straightforwardly derived as a pragmatic inference either. We consider two possible semantic accounts, and conclude in favor of one on which the lexical semantics of <em>wonder</em> involves exhaustification w.r.t. structural alternatives as well as sub-domain alternatives of its complement.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Roelofsen, Floris and Uegaki, Wataru}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={999–1016} }