The paper presents a case study in the compositionality of particle-motionverbs. Part of the investigation is the interaction between indexical elements contributed by hin(there, thither) vs. her(here, hither) and the deictic motion verbs kommen (come) vs. gehen (go). The investigation will lead to a distinction between the notion indexical in the sense of ’direct reference to the utterance sit...

By definition, the reference of an indexical depends on the context of utterance. For example, the proposition expressed by I am hungry depends on who says this and when. Since Kaplan (1979), context dependence has been analyzed in terms of two parameters: an utterance context, which determines the reference of indexicals, and a formally unrelated assignment function, which determines the refer...

In this paper we test the hypothesis that monophthongal /aw/ is semiotically associated with local identity in Pittsburgh. We compare results of an experimental task that directly elicits participants' sense of the indexical value of /aw/-monophthongization with the occurrence of this variant in the same people's speech. People who hear monophthongal /aw/ as an index of localness are unlikely t...

In this paper, we present a high-level intermediate language, called delay-Prolog, for implementing CLP(FD), the constraint language over nite-domains. Delay-Prolog has a much stronger description power than indexical, the intermediate language widely used in current nite-domain constraint compilers. It is powerful enough for describing all kinds of constraint propagation procedures, which by n...

According to the probabilistic relevance account of confirmation, E confirms H relative background knowledge K just in case P(H/K&E)>P(H/K). This requires an inequality between rational degree belief determined two bodies total that are such one (K&E) includes other (K) as a proper part. In this article, I argue it is quite plausible there no possible for ideally agents meeting requi...

The Sleeping Beauty problem is test stone for theories about self-locating belief, i.e. theories about how we should reason when data or theories contain indexical information. Opinion on this problem is split between two camps, those who defend the “1/2 view” and those who advocate the “1/3 view”. I argue that both these positions are mistaken. Instead, I propose a new “hybrid” model, which av...

When Nez Perce speakers were presented with a cartoon depicting the interactions between Sue, the classmate, and the teacher, they judged both (1) and (2) to be appropriate utterances by the classmate. In (1), a 3rd person pronoun in the embedded clause co-refers with the matrix subject, Sue. In (2), a 1st person pronoun replaces it, with the same reference. In English, this second pattern is a...

When Nez Perce speakers were presented with a cartoon depicting the interactions between Sue, the classmate, and the teacher, they judged both (1) and (2) to be appropriate utterances by the classmate. In (1), a 3rd person pronoun in the embedded clause co-refers with the matrix subject, Sue. In (2), a 1st person pronoun replaces it, with the same reference. In English, this second pattern is a...