Titlebook: Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values; Essays in Honour of Robert J. Stainton,Christopher Viger Book 2009 Springer Science+Busines

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On Failing to Capture some (or even all) of what is Communicated and by implication a great many other ones – cannot be correct, because they fail to capture some of the “intuitive truth conditions” of the relevant sentences. In response, I argue that this charge rests on the claim that an acceptable scientific theory must (at least sometimes) capture all of the

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The Disunity of Truth picture which escapes Frege’s criticisms by positing a thin notion of semantic content which then interacts with a multiplicity of kinds of truth to account for phenomena such as modality. After exploring several ways in which we can understand the existence of multiple truth properties, I discuss

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Descriptions, Negation, and Focusntion to the role of focus, and a number of related semantic and pragmatic factors, shows that the cases give no evidence of scope interaction. However, these factors can generate an illusion of scope. In particular, focus can generate illusions of scope, which may lead us to think sentences display

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Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctionsuished from main Verbs, and thus amenable to abstract study, even through languages that do not support evidential morphology. These questions point to distinctions that are often not made, and sometimes not even considered, in the important and growing literature on the topic. A major question is:

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Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values978-1-4020-8310-5Series ISSN 0924-4662 Series E-ISSN 2215-034X

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8310-5Formal semantics; Pragmatics; communication; language; philosophy of language; semantic

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