@article{Dekker_2019, title={Mention Some of All}, volume={10}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/676}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2006.v10i1.676}, abstractNote={<p>In the interpretation of natural language one may distinguish three types of dynamics: there are the acts or moves that are made; there are structural relations between subsequent moves; and interlocutors reason about the beliefs and intentions of the participants in a particular language game. Building on some of the formalisms developed to account for the first two types of dynamics, I will generalize and formalize Gricean insights into the third type, and show by means of a case study that such a formalization allows a direct account of an apparent ambiguity: the ‘exhaustive’ versus the ‘mention some’ interpretation of questions and their answers. While the principles which I sketch, like those of Grice, are motivated by assumptions of rationality and cooperativity, they do not presuppose these assumptions to be always warranted. <em>Key words</em>: natural language interpretation, dynamic semantics, semantics-pragmatics interface, Gricean pragmatics, epistemic logic, decision theory.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Dekker, Paul}, year={2019}, month={Aug.}, pages={85–98} }