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Syntax and Interpretation
Author(s) -
PUPA FRANCESCO,
TROSETH ERIKA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2011.01415.x
Subject(s) - syntax , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , linguistics , context (archaeology) , cognitive science , epistemology , philosophy , psychology , history , archaeology
In his book Language in Context , Jason Stanley provides a novel solution to certain interpretational puzzles (Stanley, 2007). The aphonic approach, as we call it, hangs upon a substantial syntactic thesis. Here, we provide theoretical and empirical arguments against this particular syntactic thesis. Moreover, we demonstrate that the interpretational puzzles under question admit of a better solution under the explicit approach.