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Monsters in Kaplan's logic of demonstratives

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Authors

Rabern, Brian

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Abstract

Kaplan (1989a) insists that natural languages do not contain displacing devices that operate on character-such displacing devices are called monsters. This thesis has recently faced various empirical challenges (e.g., Schlenker 2003; Anand and Nevins 2004

Keywords

Keywords: Assignment function; Binding; Bound pronouns; Compositionality; Direct reference; Ingredient sense; Kaplan; Lambda binders; Logic of demonstratives; Monsters; Quantifiers; Semantics; Variables; What is said

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/59662

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Philosophical Studies

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s11098-012-9855-1

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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