Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables
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Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables
Linguists often assume that possible worlds and times are represented as pronouns in natural language (see Cresswell 1990, Percus 2000, Kusumoto 2005, Keshet 2008). This paper will construe such pronouns as world-time pairs, which will be referred to as situations, for simplicity. A predicate taking such a pair as an argument is evaluated in the world and the time specified by that situation, e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2163-5951
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2499