Barker and Taranto (2003) introduce the “paradox of asserting clarity,” arguing that true assertions of the form It is clear that p are necessarily uninformative. Following a Stalnakerian perspective according to which assertions are felicitous only if they are informative, assertions of clarity should therefore never be felicitous: either they are false or they are uninformative. I address thi...

Consider the class of contextually sensitive expressions whose context independent meanings do not by themselves suffice to secure semantic values for those expressions in contexts. Demonstratives and deictically used pronouns are the most obvious examples of such expressions. But arguably gradable adjectives, modals, possessives, tense, quantifiers, expressions that take implicit arguments (‘r...

Francez and Berg (1994) introduced the term CROSS-SPEAKER ANAPHORA to indicate reference by conversational participant (CP) B to a discourse entity introduced by CP A. Crossspeaker anaphora is further discussed in (Groenendijk, Stokhof, and Veltman, 1997; Dekker, 1997), where it is noted that the phenomenon is subject to a number of constraints: e.g., it is generally not felicitous for B to fol...

In this paper, a complete characterization of the (super) edge-magic linear forests with two components is provided. In the process of establishing this characterization, the super edge-magic, harmonious, sequential and felicitous properties of certain 2-regular graphs are investigated , and several results on super edge-magic and felicitous labelings of unions of cycles and paths are presented...

An -ever free relative (FR) is felicitous only when the speaker doesn't know, or doesn't care about, the identity of the entity denoted. (1) is felicitous if, for example, the speaker doesn’t know if Mary is cooking pea soup or spinach (although he may know it is green). That is, the basic level nominal (in the sense of Cruse 1977) must be undetermined. When an -ever FR contains a nominal head ...

In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance. However, the debate about assessor-relativism about epistemic modals, predicates of taste, gradable adjectives and conditionals has been largely driven by cases in which seemingly felicitous assessments of utterances are...

A graph G of size q is graceful if there exists an injective function f : V (G) → {0, 1, . . . , q} such that each edge uv of G is labeled |f(u)− f(v)| and the resulting edge labels are distinct. Also, a (p, q) graph G with q ≥ p is harmonious if there exists an injective function f : V (G) → Zq such that each edge uv of G is labeled f(u)+f(v) (mod q) and the resulting edge labels are distinct,...

In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance. However, the debate about assessor-relativism about epistemic modals, predicates of taste, gradable adjectives and conditionals has been largely driven by cases in which seemingly felicitous assessments of utterances are...