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Kyle Rawlins

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

proceedings from semantics and linguistic theory

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2163-5951

pISSN - 2163-5943

DOI - 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2688

Subject(s) - proposition , predicate (mathematical logic) , content (measure theory) , noun , linguistics , computer science , mathematics , natural language processing , philosophy , programming language , mathematical analysis

I provide a compositional account of about -PPs in combination with attitude predicates, content nouns, and as a predicate. The account requires that attitude predicates are properties of content-bearing eventualities, rather than relations that take propositions (or other clause denotations) as arguments. I argue further that the relevant notion of 'content' must be extremely general, allowing for question-like, proposition-like, and hybrid meanings.

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