TY  - CHAP
A1  - Sauerland, Uli
A2  - Crnic, Luka
A2  - Sauerland, Uli
T1  - Counterparts block some 'de' 're' readings
T2  - The art and craft of semantics : a festschrift for Irene Heim, Bd. 2, MIT working papers in linguistics ; 71
N2  - Irene Heim in unpublished work proposed a new syntax-semantics interface for propositional attitude reports based on an ontology without transworld individuals, but counterpart functions instead. We show that the approach can capture the 'de re'/'de dicto' distinction, but makes different predictions from accounts with transworld individuals. Specifically, the account uses a non-invertible counterpart functions: a single individual in an alternative world can be the counterpart of many individuals of the real world. The directionality of counterpart functions predicts that a 'de dicto' interpreted DP cannot be an argument of a 'de re' interpreted predicate. We show that the predicted restriction is corroborated by existing work on restrictions on 'de re' interpretation. The derivation of constraints on 'de re' interpretation argues empirically for the counterpart ontology and Heim’s implementation thereof.
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Syntax
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38578
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385786
UR  - http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jZiNmM4N/Sauerland.pdf
SN  - 978-1-1502-85752-1
SP  - 65
EP  - 85
PB  - MITWPL
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
ER  -