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  title info:
    title: Felicitous underspecification
    sub title: contextually sensitive expressions lacking unique semantic values in context
  name:
    name part: King, Jeffrey C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context. For example, a felicitous use of the singular pronoun 'she' generally has a single female as its unique semantic value in context. In the present work, I argue that contextually sensitive expressions have felicitous uses where they lack unique semantic values in context. I call such uses instances of felicitous underspecification. In such cases, I say that the underspecified expression is associated with a range of candidate semantic values in context. I provide a rule for updating the Stalnakerian common ground when sentences containing felicitous underspecified expressions are uttered and accepted in a conversation. I also give an account of the mechanism that associates the range of candidate semantic values in context with an underspecified expression. Sentences containing felicitous underspecified expressions can be embedded in various constructions. I consider the result of embedding such sentences under negation and verbs of propositional attitude. I also consider the question of why some uses of underspecified expressions are felicitous and others aren't. This investigations yields the notion of a context being appropriate for a sentence (LF), where a context is appropriate for a sentence containing an underspecified expression if the sentence is felicitous. Finally, I consider some difficulties that arise in virtue of the fact that pronouns and demonstratives have some sorts of implications of uniqueness that clash with their being underspecified"--
  note: Jeffrey C. King.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Context (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: Contexte
  subject:
    topic: Sémantique
  subject:
    topic: semantics
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Context (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Semantics
  classification: P325.5.C65 K56 2021
  classification: 401.43
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Felicitous underspecification
    name:
      name part: King, Jeffrey C.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1273675579
  identifier: 0191947857
  identifier: 9780191947858
  identifier: 9780192671196
  identifier: 0192671197
  identifier: 9780192857057
  identifier: 9780192671189
  identifier: 0192671189
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210623
    record change date: 20260319184535.9
    record identifier: in00005720877
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng