The last Logic Colloquium of the semester will be held on Friday, May 2, 2:30pm in MONT 420 (with a hybrid option; contact Stefan Kaufmann for the zoom link). The speaker is Yasutada Sudo from University College, London.
 Specific indefinites and dynamic presuppositions
This is an attempt to explain the exceptional scope behavior of specific indefinites in terms of ‘dynamic presuppositions’—presuppositions with anaphoric content in addition to propositional content. It is also claimed that puzzling interpretive properties of ‘certain’ indefinites are straightforwardly explained as dynamic presuppositions with functional anaphora.