t has been two decades since the publication of Davidson’s twin papers, I “Truth and Meaning” (1967) and “On Saying That” (1968). The first proposed that a Tarskian truth theory for a language L can be (the heart of) a theory of meaning for L. The second proposed a radically novel approach, the paratactic account, to the logical form of indirect discourse. The two proposals are related in a num...

The article focuses on the factors that cause linear and vertical sentence extension of multiple complex-compound sentences used in English fictional literature. Considering the sentence structure as a combination of 2 Units – paratactic and hypotactic the authors define the structural peculiarities of paratactic and hypotactic units including the number of clauses and its bonds. The extension ...

In “On Saying That,” Donald Davidson offered an analysis of indirect discourse that was meant to overcome the classic difficulties of a semantic theory of indirect discourse. Additionally, Davidson’s treatment of indirect discourse was purported to further his project of explaining meaning in a purely extensional, explicitly truth-defined, and compositional manner. The particular paratactic the...

This research aims at capturing and characterizing clause complexes in Lampung language by considering the structure conjunction. Here, it focuses on paratactic configuration. A configuration consists of two or more independent clauses is also recognized presence conjunction punctuation. The bridges signs a relation between among those clauses. There are six conjunctions found; ‘ghik’, ‘kidang’...

To better understand the ordering of clause aggregation operators in a text generation application, we manually annotated a small corpus. The annotated corpus supports the preferred ordering of transformations that result in shorter surface expressions, such as adjectives over relative clauses. In addition, we were able to explain why paratactic operators are applied before and after hypotactic...

That is to say, the surface form of indirect speech is itself paratactic and requires only the insertion of a period (‘a tiny orthographic change ... without semantic significance’, as Davidson put it) to be made explicit. If SF is true, then the ‘that’ of ‘says that’ is, grammatically speaking, a demonstrative, and the utterance to which it refers is just the reporter’s utterance of the words ...