Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore /
Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be...
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Dordrecht :
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2009.
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| Series: | Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy,
85 |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8310-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Brian McLaughlin, Foreword
- I. Compositionality. Sarah-Jane Leslie, If, Unless and Quantification. Daniel Blair, Bridging the Paratactic Gap
- II. Context and What Is Said . Sandy Goldberg, On the Epistemic Utility of What Is Said. Lenny Clapp, In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments. David Hunter, Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity. Kent Johnson, On Failing to Capture Some (Or Even All) of What is Communicated
- III. Semantic Values. Josh Dever, The Disunity of Truth. Michael Glanzberg, Descriptions, Negation, and Focus. James Higginbotham, Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions. Marga Reimer, The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content. Zenon Pylyshyn, The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision.