Errata inserted. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Who are we? -- Talking about us -- Complex demonstratives, articulation, and overarticulation -- Unarticulated comparison classes -- Conventional implicature revisited -- On local bars and imported beer -- Slurring and common knowledge of ordinary language -- Color adjectives, compositionality and true utterances.
Summary:
"The papers in Richard Vallée's Words and Contents span twenty-one years. The author navigates the discovery and exploration of different expressions and perspectives on language in this volume. Beginning with referring expressions and later addressing context sensitivity, the book examines how specific words contribute to the contents of utterances and the philosophical issues that surround them"-- Provided by publisher.
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