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Non-sentential assertions and semantic ellipsis

Author(s) -

Robert J. Stainton

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

linguistics and philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1573-0549

pISSN - 0165-0157

DOI - 10.1007/bf00985446

Subject(s) - ellipsis (linguistics) , linguistics , phrase , assertion , computer science , anaphora (linguistics) , philosophy of language , expression (computer science) , semantics (computer science) , natural language processing , philosophy , artificial intelligence , metaphysics , epistemology , programming language , resolution (logic)

The restricted semantic ellipsis hypothesis, we have argued, is committed to an enormous number of multiply ambiguous expressions, the introduction of which gains us no extra explanatory power. We should, therefore, reject it. We should also spurn the original version since: (a) it entails the restricted version and (b) it incorrectly declares that, whenever a speaker makes an assertion by uttering an unembedded word or phrase, the expression uttered has illocutionary force.

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