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Felicitous Underspecification - Contextually Sensitive Expressions Lacking Unique Semantic Values in Context (Hardcover)
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Felicitous Underspecification - Contextually Sensitive Expressions Lacking Unique Semantic Values in Context (Hardcover)
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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, he says 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 sentences containing felicitous underspecified expressions are
uttered and accepted in a conversation. He also gives an account of
the mechanism that associates the range of candidate semantic
values in context with an underspecified expression. Sentences
containing felicitous underspecified expressions can be embedded in
various constructions. King considers the result of embedding such
sentences under negation and verbs of propositional attitude. He
also considers the question of why some uses of underspecified
expressions are felicitous and others aren't. This investigation
yields the notion of a context being appropriate for a sentence
(LF), where a context is appropriate for a sentence containing an
underspecified expression if the sentence is felicitous in that
context. Finally, he considers some difficulties that arise in
virtue of the fact that pronouns and demonstratives have some sorts
of implications of uniqueness that clash with their being
underspecified.
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