Diagnosing (not-)at-issue content
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Natural language utterances typically convey more than one proposition. Mario’s utterance in (1), for example, conveys at least the following propositions: i) that Mario is indicating somebody, ii) that the person indicated by Mario is a man, iii) that Carlos had money, iv) that the man Mario is indicating stole Carlos’ money, v) that Mario has a mother, and vi) that the man Mario is indicating is Mario’s mother’s friend.
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