Breaking quotations

Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • K. Satoh
  • A. Inokuchi
  • K. Nagao
  • T. Kawamura
Book title New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Book subtitle JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Miyazaki, Japan, June 18-22, 2007 : revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783540781967
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783540781974
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 21st Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2007), Miyazaki, Japan
Pages (from-to) 187-200
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_18
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