The Grammar of Intensionality
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چکیده
Intensionality phenomena were first discussed by Frege (1893) in the context of sentential complement constructions like (1a,b). Frege noted that substitution of co-referring terms in clausal complements needn’t preserve truth (1a,b).1 Another feature of these environments is that the presence of a nonreferring or nondenoting term needn’t yield a false sentence (2a). Furthermore, an indefinite in such an environment can be read nonspecifically; thus in (2b), Max can believe a famous actor to be in the movie without there being any particular famous actor such that Max believes he or she was in the movie:
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