Felicitous Underspecification
Contextually Sensitive Expressions Lacking Unique Semantic Values in Context
Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context. For example, a felicitous use of the singular pronoun 'she' generally has a single female as its unique semantic value in context. In the present work, Jeffrey C. King argues that contextually sensitive expressions have felicitous uses where they lack unique semantic values in context. He calls such uses instances of felicitous underspecification. In such cases, hesays that the underspecified expression is associated with a range of candidate semantic values in context. King provides a rule for updating the Stalnakerian common ground when s…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-267119-6
- EAN: 9780192671196
- Produktnummer: 38067196
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Jeffrey C. King completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego in 1985. He taught at California StateUniversity, San Bernardino from 1985-1990. Professor King then moved to University of California, Davis, wherehe taught from 1991-2004. In 2004 he took a job at University of Southern California, where he remained until2007. He moved to Rutgers University in 2007, where he currently teaches. He became Distinguished Professorthere in 2011. His main research areas are philosophy of language, formal semantics, philosophical logic, andmetaphysics.
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