Language in Context: Selected Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0199225923
- ISBN-13
- 9780199225927
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Author
- Jason Stanley
Description
These linguistically mandated constraints are most evident in the cases of sentences containing explicit pronouns, such as 'She is a mathematician', where interpretation of the information expressed is guided by the use of the pronoun 'she'. But even when such explicit pronouns are lacking, our sentences provide similar cues to allow our interlocutors to determine the information expressed. We are, in the main, confident that our interlocutors will smoothly grasp what we say, because the grammar and meaning of our sentences encodes these constraints. In defending this theory, Stanley pays close attention to specific cases of context-sensitive constructions, such as quantified noun phrases, comparative adjectives, and conditionals."
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