Laurence R. Horn
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurence R. Horn is involved.
2025 Insincerely yours: On the uses of sarcasm ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 233–260 | Article
A lie commits the speaker to the truth of an assertion they believe false. But a speaker uttering a falsehood in jest or sarcasm arguably neither asserts that falsehood nor lies. The insincere speaker essentially “uncommits” to the truth of their remark. Social media posters, criminal… read more
2011 Almost forever Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article
The division of labor between semantic and pragmatic contributions of almost and other proximatives has long been controversial. A watershed in this dispute is Sadock’s (1981) proposal that I almost won only conversationally implicates, rather than entailing, I didn’t win. Neither this “radical… read more
2008 Pragmatics and the lexicon Unity and Diversity of Languages, Sterkenburg, Piet van (ed.), pp. 29–41 | Article
2001 Flaubert triggers, squatitive negation, and other quirks of grammar Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items, Hoeksema, Jack, Hotze Rullmann, Víctor Sánchez-Valencia and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 173–200 | Article
1997 Negative Polarity and the Dynamics of Vertical Inference Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995, Forget, Danielle, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero (eds.), pp. 157–182 | Article