Sentences

"Linguistic" sentences and "real" sentences

This p~$r Id~ntift~ iwe klr¢ds of sentences: "llngulsUc" sentences ~ J "r~al" a~-ntence~. "l't~,~ former is a kind of sentel~'~,e~ that ar~ often discussed in (cemputatkmal) Ungulstlc literatures, sucll as the:re In i:lgure 1. The latter, on the other hand, is a kind of senteace=~ that appear in practical applications, such as those In Flgu='e 2. Where~ts both are grammatical English sentences,...

Clustering Sentences - Making Sense of Synonymous Sentences

Some Sentences on Our Consciousness of Sentences

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Identificational sentences

This paper gives a novel analysis of identificational sentences such as This is Mary, That is a beautiful woman, or This looks like Mary based on the notion of a trope. On that analysis, bare demonstratives in the subject position of an identificational sentence involve reference to a trope as the direct object of perception and the sentence itself states the identification of the bearer of the...

Meaning of Generic Sentences

It has sometimes been proposed that generic sentences make statements about prototypic members of a category. In this paper I will elaborate this view and develop an account where generic sentences express quantification about the normal exemplars in a category— here and in counterfactual worlds sufficiently similar to our own. Comparing the account to the currently most widespread analysis whi...