Felicitous Underspecification: Contextually Sensitive Expressions Lacking Unique Semantic Values in Context

Oxford University Press (2021)
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This book argues that contextually sensitive expressions have felicitous uses in which they lack unique semantic values in context. It formulates a rule for updating the Stalnakerian common ground in cases in which an accepted sentence contains an expression lacking a unique semantic value in context.

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