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Counterparts block some 'de' 're' readings

  • Irene Heim in unpublished work proposed a new syntax-semantics interface for propositional attitude reports based on an ontology without transworld individuals, but counterpart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.

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Author:Uli Sauerland
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-385786
URL:http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jZiNmM4N/Sauerland.pdf
ISBN:978-1-1502-85752-1
Parent Title (English):The art and craft of semantics : a festschrift for Irene Heim, Bd. 2, MIT working papers in linguistics ; 71
Publisher:MITWPL
Place of publication:Cambridge, Mass.
Editor:Luka Crnic, Uli Sauerland
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2014
Year of first Publication:2014
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/11/18
GND Keyword:Semantik; Syntax
Page Number:21
First Page:65
Last Page:85
HeBIS-PPN:385127677
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Semantik / Semantics
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht