Taste predicates and the acquaintance inference  

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Ninan, Dilip

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 24th Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at New York University, May 30th - June 1st, 2014, page 290-309.
Topik: taste predicates; contextualism; relativism; presupposition; implicature; epistemic modals; norm of assertion
Fulltext: 18. 2413-2616-1-PB.pdf (160.37KB)

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Simple sentences containing predicates like tasty and beautiful typically suggest that the speaker has first-hand knowledge of the item being evaluated. I consider two explanations of this acquaintance inference: a presuppositional approach and a pragmatic-epistemic approach. The presuppositional approach has a number of virtues, but runs into trouble because the acquaintance inference has a very different projection pattern from that of standard presuppositions. The pragmatic-epistemic approach accounts for the main data discussed in the paper, but faces challenges of its own.

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