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Context shifting in questions and elsewhere

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: It has been shown that context shifting takes place within propositional attitudes. This paper argues that there are other environments where context shift takes place, specifically in questions and in the scope of modal and evidential operators. It is argued that the shift that takes place is a shift in the judge, the individual who determines truth and falsity (of non-objective content). The shift is analyzed in terms of monstrous operators.

Source: Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung

DOI: 10.18148/sub/2007.v11i0.656

Author: McCready, Eric

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3036495803

FWCI: 6.175

Cites: 11

Cited by: 22

Related to: 10