Situations, alternatives, and the semantics of ‘cases’

Linguistics and Philosophy 44 (1):1-41 (2019)
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This paper argues that NPs with case as head noun stand for situations in their role as truthmakers within a sentential or epistemic case space. The paper develops a unified semantic analysis of case-constructions of the various sorts within a truthmaker-based version of alternative semantics.

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