Breaking Quotations

Emar Maier*

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Abstract

Quotation exhibits characteristics of both use and mention. I argue against the recently popular pragmatic reductions of quotation to mere language use (Recanati 1), and in favor of a truly hybrid account synthesizing and extending Potts (2) and Geurts & Maier (3), using a mention logic and a dynamic semantics with presupposition to establish a context-driven meaning shift. The current paper explores a “quote-breaking” extension to solve the problems posed by non-constituent quotation, and anaphora, ellipsis and quantifier raising across quotation marks.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
EditorsKen Satoh, Akihiro Inokuchi, Katashi Nagao, Takahiro Kawamura
PublisherSpringer
Pages187-200
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-78197-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-78196-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008

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