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Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values

Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Robert J. Stainton

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario Talbot College, London Ontario, Canada

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  2. Christopher Viger

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario Talbot College, London Ontario, Canada

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  • New papers by top scholars
  • Topic is absolutely central to contemporary philosophy of language
  • Celebrates the work of renowned philosopher of language Ernie Lepore

Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 85)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Compositionality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. “If”, “Unless”, and Quantification

      • Sarah-Jane Leslie
      Pages 3-30

    3. Bridging the Paratactic Gap

      • Daniel Blair
      Pages 31-58

  3. Context and “What Is Said”

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. On the Epistemic Utility of What is Said

      • Sanford C. Goldberg
      Pages 61-78

    3. In Defense of Context Shifting Arguments

      • Lenny Clapp
      Pages 79-103

    4. Contextualism, Skepticism and Objectivity

      • David Hunter
      Pages 105-128

    5. On Failing to Capture some (or even all) of what is Communicated

      • Kent Johnson
      Pages 129-144

  4. Semantic Values

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. The Disunity of Truth

      • Josh Dever
      Pages 147-191

    3. Descriptions, Negation, and Focus

      • Michael Glanzberg
      Pages 193-220

    4. Evidentials: Some Preliminary Distinctions

      • James Higginbotham
      Pages 221-235

    5. The Direct Expression of Metaphorical Content

      • Marga Reimer
      Pages 237-253

    6. The Empirical Case for Bare Demonstratives in Vision

      • Zenon Pylyshyn
      Pages 254-274

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 275-281
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Are natural languages genuinely compositional? What roles does context play in linguistic communication, and by what means? In particular, does context interfere with the compositional determination of truth conditions? What meanings should theorists assign to sentences if compositionality is to be retained? These are the central questions of this important volume of new philosophical essays in honour of Ernie Lepore.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario Talbot College, London Ontario, Canada

    Robert J. Stainton, Christopher Viger

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