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Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore

:	Gennaro Chierchia, K. Fintel, Francis J. Pelletier, Robert J. Stainton, Christopher Viger
:	Robert J. Stainton, Christopher Viger
:	Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9781402083105
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:	CHF 89.50
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

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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 retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore.

	Contents	6
	Contributors	8
	Ernie	10
	Compositionality	14
	If , Unless , and Quantification	15
	1 Introduction: Quantified Conditionals and Compositionality	15
	2 The Puzzle of Quantified Conditionals	17
	3 The Semantics of Conditionals Containing If	19
	4 The Semantics of Conditionals Containing Unless	29
	5 Conclusion	41
	References	42
	Bridging the Paratactic Gap	43
	1 Introduction	43
	2 Davidson s Analysis	44
	3 Binding Problems	50
	4 Sentences, Logical Forms and Parataxis	55
	5 Conclusion	68
	References	69
	Context and What Is Said	71
	On the Epistemic Utility of What is Said	72
	1 Introduction	72
	2 What is Said and Testimonial Knowledge	73
	3 Speech Reports	76
	4 Potential Problem: Testimonial Knowledge and the Context of Speech Reporting	78
	5 A Dialectical Look at Possible Solutions	81
	6 Epistemic Intuitions and What is Strictly Said	84
	7 Conclusion	88
	References	88
	In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments	90
	1 Introduction	90
	2 The Debate Between Radical Pragmatics and Truth Conditional Semantics	91
	3 Cappelen and Lepore s Positive Views and the Case of Incomplete Definite Descriptions	95
	4 Cappelen and Lepore s Main Argument Against CSAs	100
	5 Vagueness and a Reductio of the Main Argument	101
	6 Why the Second Premise of the Main Argument Against CSAs Is False	102
	7 Conclusion: Cappelen and Lepore Should Endorse CSAs	108
	Notes	110
	References	114
	Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity	115
	1 Assertion and Context	117
	2 Knowledge and Belief	119
	3 Two Uncontroversial Kinds of Context Dependence	122
	4 Contextualism and the Skeptic	124
	5 Some Examples	129
	6 Contextualism and Objectivity	132
	Notes	136
	References	137
	On Failing to Capture Some (or Even All) of What is Communicated	139
	1 Introduction	139
	2 The Problem of Irrelevance	141
	3 Linguistic Theories as Scientific Theories	143
	4 Rescuing the Attack on Minimalism?	150
	5 Conclusion	153
	Notes	154
	References	154
	Semantic Values	155
	The Disunity of Truth	156
	1 In Media Res: Supervaluations	156
	2 Flashback: Frege s Terminality Argument	159
	3 Pre-Fregean Semantic Maximalism and Minimalism	161
	4 The Disunity of Truth	165
	5 Main Plot: Necessity is a Mode of Truth	167
	6 Modality and Possible Worlds	172
	7 The Emergence of Modal Language	173
	8 Truth Pointwise and Setwise	176
	9 What Makes a Mode of Truth a Mode of Truth?	178
	10 Conclusio Res: Vagueness is a Modality	183
	11 A Disunified Treatment of Vagueness	186
	12 Two Objections to Supervaluationism	188
	13 Dynamic Semantics and the Omniscience Argument	191
	14 Update, Truth, and Disunity	195
	References	199
	Descriptions, Negation, and Focus	201
	1 Initial Observations	203
	2 Approaches to Definite Descriptions	205
	3 Negation and Focus	211
	4 Improper Descriptions and Negation	218
	5 Negative Quantifiers	222
	6 Conclusion	224
	References	225
	Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions	229
	1 Evidential Constructions	230
	2 Evidence versus Source	231
	3 The Object of Evidentiality	232
	4 Singulary or Binary?	233
	5 Application to Evidentials	236
	6 Recursion in Binary Constructions	237
	7 Slifting Diagnostics	240
	8 Final Questions	240
	Notes	241
	References	242
	The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content	244
	1 Preliminaries	244
	2 Some Data	246
	3 A Direct Expression Account of Cappy s Metaphorical Utterance	248
	4 A Reason for Rejecting a Direct Expression Account?	250
	5 A Direct Expression Response	252
	6 Linguistic Communication: Miraculous or Merely Incompletely Understood?	258
	References	260
	The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision	261
	1 Background: Representation in Language and Vision	261
	2 Some Parallels Between the Study of Vision and Language	263
	3 What does all this have to do with Connecting Vision and the World?	274
	Notes	276
	References	278
	Index	281