Billboards, bombs and shotgun weddings

Egan, Andy

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Billboards, bombs and shotgun weddings

Date

2009

Authors

Egan, Andy

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

It's a presupposition of a very common way of thinking about context-sensitivity in language that the semantic contribution made by a bit of context-sensitive vocabulary is sensitive only to features of the speaker's situation at the time of utterance. I