ON CONTEXT SHIFTERS AND COMPOSITIONALITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGES

• Authors: Briciu Adrian
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to prove certain relations between some type of hyper-intensional operators, namely context shifting operators, and compositionality in natural languages. Various authors (e.g. von Fintel & Matthewson 2008; Stalnaker 2014) have argued that context-shifting operators are incompatible with compositionality. In fact, some of them understand Kaplan’s (1989) famous ban on context-shifting operators as a constraint on compositionality. Others, (e.g. Rabern 2013) take context-shifting operators to be compatible with compositionality but, unfortunately, do not provide a proof, or an argument in favour of their position. The aim of this paper is to do precisely that. Additionally, the author provides a new proof that compositionality for propositional content (intension) is a proper generalization of compositionality for character (hyper-intensions).

Keywords

EN

COMPOSITIONALITY; CONTEXT-SHIFTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 2 - 20

Contributors

author

Briciu Adrian

• LOGOS Research Group, Universitat de Barcelona C. Montalegre, 6-8, desp. 4009, Barcelona 08001, Spain