@article{Warstadt_2020, title={"Just" don’t ask: Exclusives and potential questions}, volume={24}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/903}, DOI={10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.903}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The English exclusive <em>just</em> is not synonymous with other exclusives such as <em>only</em> in sentences like <em>Sometimes, bad things just/only happen</em>. I give a new analysis of <em>just</em> which explains this and other puzzling readings of <em>just</em> observed in earlier work (e.g. Wiegand, 2016; Beltrama, 2018). I argue that <em>just</em> excludes alternatives derived from a potential question, or possible future QUD, in the sense of Onea (2016). This new perspective makes it possible to give the first unified account of these non-canonical exclusive readings of <em>just</em>, and provides evidence that the semantics of lexical items can be sensitive to possible futures of the discourse.</p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={2}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Warstadt, Alex}, year={2020}, month={Sep.}, pages={373–390} }