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Linglib.Studies.Spector2016

Spector (2016): Worked examples of exhaustivity operators #

[Spe16] "Comparing Exhaustivity Operators." Semantics and Pragmatics 9(11): 1–33.

Concrete derivations of exhMW, exhIE, and their coincidence (Theorem 9) on the two classic Horn scales:

  1. some/all scale: "Some students passed" → "Not all students passed"
  2. or/and scale: "John sang or danced" → exclusive reading

The abstract Spector framework lives in Semantics/Exhaustification/Operators/Basic.lean. This file holds the empirical exemplars — small finite worlds, scale-specific alternative sets, and the per-scale exhMW ≡ exhIE corollaries — kept out of the theory file in line with the project's theory/Studies split.

It also collects the [Chi13] Maximize Strength worked examples (matrix-clause SI computed, DE-context SI suppressed) as a small table of MaximizeStrengthExample records.

Results #

"Some students passed" #

World model: Fin 4 represents how many students passed (0–3 of 3).

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Worlds for some/all example: number of students who passed (0 to 3).

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    "Some students passed" (at least one).

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      "All students passed" (all three).

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        Alternative set: {some, all}.

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          World where exactly 1 student passed.

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            World where all 3 students passed.

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              exhMW(some) holds at w=1 — the scalar implicature "some but not all".

              "John sang or danced" #

              Four worlds for or/and example.

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                  For a two-element Horn scale {weak, strong} where strong ⊆ weak, exhMW ≡ exhIE without invoking the full closure-under-conjunction hypothesis: at any exhIE world, the stronger alternative is false, which makes the world minimal.

                  A small descriptive table of contexts illustrating [Chi13]'s Maximize Strength predictions. The principle itself (maximizeStrength, exh_in_ue_strengthens, etc.) lives in Operators.lean.

                  ContextPolaritySI computed?
                  Matrix clauseUEyes
                  Negation scopeDEno
                  Conditional antecedentDEno
                  Universal restrictorDEno
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