Copredication, Counting, and Criteria of Individuation: A Response to Gotham

Liebesman, David; Magidor, Ofra

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“…It has been used by theorists like Chomsky (2000) to argue against referential semantics and the idea that word meaning is a denotation stable across contexts (see also Collins, 2017; Pietroski, 2005; Vicente, 2021a). This discussion in turn led to various proposals aimed at explaining copredication as a topic in its own right (for recent discussion, see Gotham, 2017; Liebesman & Magidor, 2017, 2019; Ortega‐Andrés & Vicente, 2019; Vicente, 2021b; Löhr & Michel, 2022; Ortega‐Andrés, 2022).…”

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Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication

Liu

2023

Mind & Language

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Empirical evidence suggests that perceptual‐motor simulations are often constitutively involved in language comprehension. Call this “the simulation view of language comprehension”. This article applies the simulation view to illuminate the much‐discussed phenomenon of copredication, where a noun permits multiple predications which seem to select different senses of the noun simultaneously. On the proposed account, the (in)felicitousness of a copredicational sentence is closely associated with the perceptual simulations that the language user deploys in comprehending the sentence.

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“…Each of these accounts nevertheless faces criticism (see Liebesman & Magidor, 2019; Ortega‐Andrés, 2022; Vicente, 2021b; Viebahn, 2022). It may be that proponents of these ontological accounts can address the respective objections.…”

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Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication

Liu

2023

Mind & Language

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“…It is currently debated what the phenomenon of copredication tells us about the meaning of words like “bank” and “book” and how these terms relate to truth‐conditional semantics. One option is that nominals like “book” refer to objects that can literally be informative as well as heavy (Liebesman & Magidor, 2019 ). Another option is that “book” refers to a complex object (e.g., Gotham, 2017 ) consisting of the informational content of the book as well as a physical object with pages and a cover.…”

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Copredication in Context: A Predictive Processing Approach

Michel

2022

Cognitive Science

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We propose a cognitive‐psychological model of linguistic intuitions about copredication statements. In copredication statements, like “The book is heavy and informative,” the nominal denotes two ontologically distinct entities at the same time. This has been considered a problem for standard truth‐conditional semantics. In this paper, we discuss two questions that have so far received less attention: What kinds of word representations and cognitive mechanisms are responsible for judgments about the felicitousness of copredication statements? Relatedly, why can similar copredication statements have different degrees of felicitousness? We first propose a cognitive‐computational model of copredication within the predictive processing framework. We then suggest that certain asymmetries in felicitousness judgments can be modeled in terms of a set of expectations that are influenced by higher‐order priors associated with discourse context and world knowledge.

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“…If a simpler and ontologically more modest alternative is viable, it should definitely be preferred. 34 For a thorough examination and rejection of Gotham's account, see Liebesman and Magidor (2019). Now, I turn to Asher's (2011) proposal.…”

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“…This is enough to show that 'sedan' is not polysemous. For a defense of the semantic view, see Liebesman and Magidor 2019. life. If so, these cases would be much closer to true homonymy (e.g.…”

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Martone de Faria

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for their though questions and careful comments. This is a much better work because of them.I owe special thanks to Eliot Michaelson, my sponsor during my visit to King's College London. Without our discussions, chapter 3 would not exist. Always thoughtful and always insightful, he reminded me how exciting philosophy can be.Thanks also to Emma Borg, who so kindly found the time to talk about polysemy with me. She is the best.Without my friends Lucas Grecco, Lucas Miotto, Leonardo Soutello and Vinicius Carvalho, graduate school would have been much tougher. Thanks for always being there for me.Many thanks to FAPESP -São Paulo Research Foundationfor always supporting my work (grants #2015/26344-3 and #2019/15591-0). In such dark times for science in Brazil, FAPESP shines even brighter.Thanks also to Alexandra and LG. I cannot thank my mother enough. Her love and support throughout this whole journey were unconditional. I can only hope to be a fraction of the teacher she was and the person she is.Finally, thanks to Gabriela, for bringing life into my life.

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Copredication, Counting, and Criteria of Individuation: A Response to Gotham

Cited by 11 publications

References 10 publications

Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication

Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication

Copredication in Context: A Predictive Processing Approach

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