Yan (2022), The Overtone of Monotonicity under Desire

Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2022 Student Session

The Overtone of Monotonicity under Desire

Jialiang Yan

The goal of this paper is to propose a unified account for different puzzles on upward monotonicity under desire. Conclusions drawn by monotonicity will be shown to license some additional inferences by pragmatic effects. It is assumed that a predicate can convey a potential disjunctive meaning via reinterpretation and hence gives rise to free choice effects. In addition, a logic-based framework is presented to capture free choice inferences and the reinterpretation process.