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Pelczar, Michael; Rainsbury, J.

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“…It may be worth mentioning that some people contest the view that the class of indexical expressions is limited to the ones we enumerated. Some go so far as to claim that proper names are indexicals as well (see, for instance, Burge 1973, Recanati 1993, Voltolini 1995, Pelczar and Rainsbury 1998. Others claim that comparative adjectives such as "rich", "small", … (see Stanley 2000, Richard 2004), quantified expressions like "the book", "some students", … (see Stanley and Szabo 2000), common nouns like "local", "foreigner", "enemy", … (see Partee 1989, Condoravdi and Gawron 1986, Vallée 2003 are context sensitive expressions as well.…”

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Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism

Corazza,

Dokic

2007

Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism

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As we understand it, semantic minimalism is the view that: (i) an utterance u of a (declarative) sentence S expresses a proposition p whose constituents must all be represented by elements of S; (ii) the structure of p reflects the logical form of S, and (iii) if S does not contain indexical expressions, u expresses p in a context-independent way. This last claim can be illustrated in considering:

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Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism

Corazza,

Dokic

2007

Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism

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“…to name-like expressions that carry descriptive content, such as the capitalized use of Mom in English (Pelczar & Rainsbury 1998), or school as in School is closed today. 4 We show that definite bare Ns in both languages behave like names as rigid designators.…”

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Are there “weak” definites in bare classifier languages?

Yip,

Banerjee,

Lee

2024

SALT

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This paper motivates a new view on the typology of definiteness that integrates (quasi-)names. The primary data is drawn from Cantonese and Bangla, where both bare classifier constructions and bare nominals are recruited for definite expressions. We argue that these bare nominals, while often analyzed as the so-called “weak”/unique definites in other languages, are indeed name-like expressions akin to the quasi-name Mom in English, in contrast with the definite descriptions denoted by bare classifier constructions. We propose that quasi-names, as well as proper names, are derived by a definite determiner that encodes a functional relation between the discourse participants and the referent. We further discuss cases where quasi-names compete with definite descriptions and proper names. The findings not only suggest that names should be brought into the picture, but also shed light on how pragmatic principles interact and determine the choice of referring expressions.

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“…The Predicate View is the semantic view of names held byBurge (1973),Bach (1987),Katz (2001),Elbourne (2005),Sawyer (2010),Gray (2012), andFara (2015). Indexicalism includes the views ofBurks (1951), Recanati (1993,Pelczar & Rainsbury (1998),Schoubye (2017;, among others.…”

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The metaphysical burden of Millianism

Mahant

2022

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The Millian semantic view of names relies on a metaphysical view of names—often given the label ‘common currency conception’ (‘CCC’)—on which the names of distinct individuals count as distinct names. While even defenders of the Millian view admit that the CCC ‘does not agree with the most common usage’ (Kripke in Naming & Necessity, Harvard University Press, 1980), I will argue further that the CCC makes names exceptional amongst the class of linguistic expressions: if the CCC is correct, then names must have a sui-generis metaphysical nature, distinct from the metaphysics of every other kind of linguistic expression. Such metaphysical exceptionalism would be justified if the Millian view had a clear, uncontested theoretical advantage over its rivals. However, in the context of a semantic debate about names in which the closest competitors of the Millian view—the Predicate view and Indexicalism—do not result in such exceptionalism, it counts as a strike against the Millian view.

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Cited by 126 publications

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Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism

Sense and Insensibility Or Where Minimalism Meets Contextualism

Are there “weak” definites in bare classifier languages?

The metaphysical burden of Millianism

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