In this paper we discuss the role of descriptive content in deictic uses of demonstratives. Our focus is on cases where descriptive descriptions are licensed for additional descriptive content, making indexical elements such as demonstrations and contextual salience unnecessary. On the basis of these cases, we argue that: (i) the indexical component of the descriptive descriptions must refer to subsituations of the speech situation, as proposed by Wolter (2006); (ii) because it refers to these subsituations, the demonstrative deixis may be imprecise; in such cases, it is necessary to compute the descriptive content of the demonstrative descriptions compositionally. This is an argument against the idea that the indexical component of the dem...
Demonstratives are a typologically well-established, elementary and possibly universal grammatical c...
Demonstratives are key items in understanding how a language constructs and interprets spatial relat...
Demonstratives are a subclass of deictic expressions, whose reference can only be established relati...
Neste artigo discutimos o papel do conteúdo descritivo nos usos dêiticos dos demonstrativos. O foco ...
In this paper we discuss the role of descriptive content in deictic uses of demonstratives. Our focu...
Este artigo apresenta duas das principais abordagens semântico-pragmáticas – Kaplan (1989a) e Wolter...
Tese arquivada ao abrigo da Portaria nº 227/2017 de 25 de Julho-Registo de Grau EstrangeiroThis thes...
This paper gathers contributions which seek to demonstrate that the phenomenon of memory de...
Na literatura filosófica, o debate em torno da semântica dosdemonstrativos complexos e descrições re...
This paper examines demonstrative pronouns used as deictics to refer to the interpretation of one or...
Kaplan argues for the view that demonstratives are direct reference devices on the grounds of their ...
Este estudo trata dos demonstrativos no português do Brasil e em espanhol a partir de uma análise qu...
The received view about indexicals holds that they are directly referential expressions, and that th...
In this paper we start a reflection about demonstrative noun phrases. From the concept of memorial d...
Journal ArticleThis paper deals with one of the major pragmatic uses of the demonstrative in French,...
Demonstratives are a typologically well-established, elementary and possibly universal grammatical c...
Demonstratives are key items in understanding how a language constructs and interprets spatial relat...
Demonstratives are a subclass of deictic expressions, whose reference can only be established relati...
Neste artigo discutimos o papel do conteúdo descritivo nos usos dêiticos dos demonstrativos. O foco ...
In this paper we discuss the role of descriptive content in deictic uses of demonstratives. Our focu...
Este artigo apresenta duas das principais abordagens semântico-pragmáticas – Kaplan (1989a) e Wolter...
Tese arquivada ao abrigo da Portaria nº 227/2017 de 25 de Julho-Registo de Grau EstrangeiroThis thes...
This paper gathers contributions which seek to demonstrate that the phenomenon of memory de...
Na literatura filosófica, o debate em torno da semântica dosdemonstrativos complexos e descrições re...
This paper examines demonstrative pronouns used as deictics to refer to the interpretation of one or...
Kaplan argues for the view that demonstratives are direct reference devices on the grounds of their ...
Este estudo trata dos demonstrativos no português do Brasil e em espanhol a partir de uma análise qu...
The received view about indexicals holds that they are directly referential expressions, and that th...
In this paper we start a reflection about demonstrative noun phrases. From the concept of memorial d...
Journal ArticleThis paper deals with one of the major pragmatic uses of the demonstrative in French,...
Demonstratives are a typologically well-established, elementary and possibly universal grammatical c...
Demonstratives are key items in understanding how a language constructs and interprets spatial relat...
Demonstratives are a subclass of deictic expressions, whose reference can only be established relati...