Relative truth,speaker commitment,and control of implicit arguments |
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Authors: | Peter Lasersohn |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA |
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Abstract: | Recent arguments for relativist semantic theories have centered on the phenomenon of “faultless disagreement.” This paper
offers independent motivation for such theories, based on the interpretation of predicates of personal taste in certain attitude
contexts and presuppositional constructions. It is argued that the correct interpretation falls out naturally from a relativist
theory, but requires special stipulation in a theory which appeals instead to the use of hidden indexicals; and that a hidden
indexical analysis presents problems for contemporary syntactic theory. |
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Keywords: | Relativism Taste Factives |
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