Title | : | Felicitous Underspecification |
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Author | : | Jeffrey C. King |
Release | : | 2021-12-21 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Reference, Words & Language, Foreign Languages, Linguistics |
Size | : | 1129499 |
This book argues that contextually sensitive expressions have felicitous uses in which they lack unique semantic values in context. It formulates a rule for updating the Stalnakerian common ground in cases in which an accepted sentence contains an expression lacking a unique semantic value in context. |