Mixed Quotation

Maier, Emar

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“…Here, the defender of the quotational view could reply that (1a) involves mixed quotation (Cappelen & Lepore, 1997;Maier, 2007Maier, , 2014aMaier, , 2020Shan, 2010). Mixed quotations are sentences in which we report someone's utterance by quoting only some of the words they used: 11. a. Bush said that the enemy (misunderestimated) him.…”

Section: Quotational Accountsmentioning

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“…To see this, we may recruit arguments against the hypothesis that indexical shifting amounts to quotation (Anand & Nevins, 2004; Deal, 2017; Deal, 2020): For example, we can wh ‐extract components from the complement clause in (1a). This should be impossible if the clause is quoted (* marks ungrammaticality): Who does Andrea believe is an attorney? * Who does Andrea believe ‘is an attorney’? Here, the defender of the quotational view could reply that (1a) involves mixed quotation (Cappelen & Lepore, 1997; Maier, 2007, 2014a, 2020; Shan, 2010). Mixed quotations are sentences in which we report someone's utterance by quoting only some of the words they used: Bush said that the enemy

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misunderestimated

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him. Quine said that quotation

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has a certain anomalous feature

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. Following this model, it could be argued that (1a) should be understood as: Andrea believes that Fiona is an

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attorney

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. However, this reconstruction of (1a) is not immediately transparent as a case of mixed quotation.…”

Section: A Challenge For the Semantics Of Propositional Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On Mates's puzzle

Ruiz

2022

Mind & Language

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I defend a metalinguistic account of Mates's puzzle: sentences where synonymous expressions cannot be substituted salva veritate. If Andrea thinks that attorneys are different from lawyers, and she thinks that Fiona is the former but not the latter, we may hesitate to substitute 'lawyer' for 'attorney' in 'Andrea believes that Fiona is an attorney', even though 'lawyer' and 'attorney' are synonymous. I argue that these sentences report de re beliefs about linguistic expressions, thereby blocking such substitutions, and I offer a compositional derivation of their meaning.

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Section: Quotational Accountsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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misunderestimated

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him. Quine said that quotation

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has a certain anomalous feature

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. Following this model, it could be argued that (1a) should be understood as: Andrea believes that Fiona is an

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attorney

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. However, this reconstruction of (1a) is not immediately transparent as a case of mixed quotation.…”

Section: A Challenge For the Semantics Of Propositional Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

On Mates's puzzle

Ruiz

2022

Mind & Language

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Pure Quotation in Linguistic Context

Rabern

2022

J Philos Logic

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A common framing has it that any adequate treatment of quotation has to abandon one of the following three principles: (i) The quoted expression is a syntactic constituent of the quote phrase; (ii) If two expressions are derived by applying the same syntactic rule to a sequence of synonymous expressions, then they are synonymous; (iii) The language contains synonymous but distinct expressions. In the following, a formal syntax and semantics will be provided for a quotational language which adheres to all three principles. The point here is not merely to provide a “possibility proof”, but to reveal the hard constraints on the theory of quotation, and to highlight certain assumptions at the syntax/semantics/post-semantics interfaces.

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Quotational nicknames in German at the interface between syntax, punctuation, and pragmatics

Finkbeiner

2023

Linguistics

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The paper is concerned with a particular nickname construction in German in which a linguistic expression is inserted between the given name and surname and enclosed by quotation marks (Johanna „Hansi“ Angermeier) or parentheses (Ursula (Uschi) Vollmuth). The apparent interchangeability of quotation marks and parentheses in the construction raises the question of the exact meaning of the (variants of the) construction and what the respective punctuation marks contribute to this meaning. The aim of the paper is to develop a comprehensive account of the variation by unfolding the complex interplay between syntax, punctuation, and pragmatics in the meaning constitution of the construction. Based on a close linguistic analysis of examples from a corpus of death notices and supplemented by recent graphematic and pragmatic accounts on punctuation marks, the view is developed that the choice of quotation marks and parentheses is governed by two different, independent processes which partly overlap in the construction. While both quotation marks and parentheses play a role in marking an underlying parenthetical structure, quotation marks are richer in meaning, triggering an additional context shift effect and further conversational implicatures. The analysis lends support to the view that parentheses are boundary signals operating on syntactic structure, while quotation marks are boundary signals operating on the meaning of linguistic expressions.

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Mixed Quotation

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Pure Quotation in Linguistic Context

Quotational nicknames in German at the interface between syntax, punctuation, and pragmatics

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