Open Accessformal pragmatic account of Double Access
Author(s) -
Peter Klecha
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.61.2018.482
Subject(s) - computer science , implicature , sentence , linguistics , interpretation (philosophy) , embedding , meaning (existential) , natural language processing , dependent clause , artificial intelligence , pragmatics , programming language , philosophy , epistemology
This paper argues that Double Access sentences in English (Smith, 1978) are akind of loose talk. When the meaning of a Double Access sentence is computed literally, theresult is infelicity. Double Access sentences can be used meaningfully only when rescued bypragmatics which intervenes to interpret the embedded clause loosely. A formal model forloose interpretation, building on Klecha (2018), is provided.Keywords: tense, embedding, Double Access, imprecision, defaults, embedded implicature.