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

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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.

Author(s): Sarah-Jane Leslie (auth.), Robert J. Stainton, Christopher Viger (eds.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 85
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 282
Tags: Linguistics (general); Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Theoretical Languages

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
“If”, “Unless”, and Quantification....Pages 3-30
Bridging the Paratactic Gap....Pages 31-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
On the Epistemic Utility of What is Said ....Pages 61-78
In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments....Pages 79-103
Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity....Pages 105-128
On Failing to Capture some (or even all) of what is Communicated....Pages 129-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
The Disunity of Truth....Pages 147-191
Descriptions, Negation, and Focus....Pages 193-220
Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions....Pages 221-235
The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content....Pages 237-253
The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision....Pages 254-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-281