Experimenting with the king of France: Topics, verifiability and definite descriptions
Definite descriptions with reference failure have been argued to give rise to different truth-value intuitions depending on the local linguistic context in which they appear. We conducted an experiment to investigate these alleged differences, thereby contributing new data to the debate. We have fou...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Linguistic Society of America
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/2823 |