Demonstratives without rigidity or ambiguity (accepted version)

Most philosophers recognize that applying the standard semantics for complex demonstratives to non-deictic instances results in at best anoma-lous truth conditions. This fact has generated little concern, however, since most philosophers treat non-deictic demonstratives as marginal cases, and believe that they should be analyzed using a distinct semantic mechanism. In this paper, I argue that non-deictic demonstratives cannot be written off; they are widespread in English and foreign languages, and must be treated using the same semantic machinery that is applied to deictic in-stances.