Showing posts with label Stanley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stanley. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Kent Bach, "Quantification, Qualification and Context: A Reply to Stanley and Szabo"

Stanley and Szabo claim that the context-sensitivity of quantified expressions is best explained by positing hidden variables at the level of logical form. Bach argues that so-called "domain restriction" is best explained pragmatically, in terms of implicit qualification.

Jason Stanley, "Nominal Restriction"

Associating hidden function and argument variables with nominal expressions helps explain three apparently different kinds of context-sensitivity: quantifier domain restriction; comparative adjectives; and mass expressions.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Jason Stanley, "Context and Logical Form"

Everything that context contributes to truth conditions (except metonymy, and Travis/Searle type context-sensitivity) must be represented at the level of logical form.

King and Stanley, "Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Role of Semantic Content"

Overview of three ways of drawing the semantics-pragmatics distinction: (1) Semantic skepticism: semantic content is a feature of sentence types; (2) Semantic modesty: semantic content is a property of sentence types + some severly limited range of contextual features, determined by "automatic" indexicals; (3) Semantic content is determined by sentence type + a more expansive conception of context, which includes speaker intentions. K&S argue that (3) is preferable to (1) and (2).