Peter Lasersohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 738004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Lasersohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lasersohn |
| SIGNATURE | LASERSOHN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3101-7852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Coordination of unmatched clause types and dynamic look-ahead
Declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamative sentences can all be coordinated with each other, even though they are often analyzed as belonging to different logical types. All four clause types can also appear as the consequent of a conditional. These facts are expected in a dynamic semantic theory in which each clause type is associated with an update operation to features of the discourse context, including a common ground, a questio…
Common nouns as modally non-rigid restricted variables
Relative truth, speaker commitment, and control of implicit arguments
Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics
version: 6/27/2008 1.0. Introduction. A common feature of recent relativist semantic analyses is that they treat sentences as expressing contents which are true or false not only relative to a possible world, but
Expressives, perspective and presupposition
I compare Potts' use of a “judge” parameter in semantic interpretation with the use of a similar parameter in Lasersohn (2005). The latter technique portrays the content of expressives as constant across speakers, while Pott's technique does not. The idea that the content of expressives is a kind of presupposition is also briefly defended, and a technical problem in the “dynamics” of Pott's formalism is pointed out
Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste
The Temperature Paradox as Evidence for a Presuppositional Analysis of Definite Descriptions
January 01 2005 The Temperature Paradox as Evidence for a Presuppositional Analysis of Definite Descriptions In Special Collection: CogNet Peter Lasersohn Peter Lasersohn University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Peter Lasersohn University of Illinois Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 Linguistic Inquiry (2005)…
Pragmatic Halos
It is a truism that people speak 'loosely'—that is, that they often say things that we can recognize not to be true, but which come close enough to the truth for practical purposes. Certain expressions, such as those including exactly, all and perfectly, appear to serve as signals of the intended degree of approximation to the truth. This article presents a novel formalism for representing the notion of approximation to the truth, and analyzes th…
Bare Plurals and Donkey Anaphora
Plurality, Conjunction and Events
Existence Presuppositions and Background Knowledge
When a definite noun phrase fails to refer, the statement containing it is often felt to lack a truth value, as in The king of France is bald. In other examples, however, the statement seems intuitively false, and not truth-valueless: consider the case of a speaker who points at an obviously empty chair and says The king of France is sitting in that chair. The difference appears to depend on the pragmatics of verification; we know the sentence is…
Pragmatic Halos
It is a truism that people speak 'loosely'—that is, that they often say things that we can recognize not to be true, but which come close enough to the truth for practical purposes. Certain expressions, such as those including exactly, all and perfectly, appear to serve as signals of the intended degree of approximation to the truth. This article presents a novel formalism for representing the notion of approximation to the truth, and analyzes th…
Relative truth, speaker commitment, and control of implicit arguments
The Temperature Paradox as Evidence for a Presuppositional Analysis of Definite Descriptions
January 01 2005 The Temperature Paradox as Evidence for a Presuppositional Analysis of Definite Descriptions In Special Collection: CogNet Peter Lasersohn Peter Lasersohn University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Peter Lasersohn University of Illinois Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 Linguistic Inquiry (2005)…
Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics
version: 6/27/2008 1.0. Introduction. A common feature of recent relativist semantic analyses is that they treat sentences as expressing contents which are true or false not only relative to a possible world, but
Bare Plurals and Donkey Anaphora
Existence Presuppositions and Background Knowledge
When a definite noun phrase fails to refer, the statement containing it is often felt to lack a truth value, as in The king of France is bald. In other examples, however, the statement seems intuitively false, and not truth-valueless: consider the case of a speaker who points at an obviously empty chair and says The king of France is sitting in that chair. The difference appears to depend on the pragmatics of verification; we know the sentence is…
Plurality, Conjunction and Events
Bare Plurals and Donkey Anaphora
Pragmatic Halos
It is a truism that people speak 'loosely'—that is, that they often say things that we can recognize not to be true, but which come close enough to the truth for practical purposes. Certain expressions, such as those including exactly, all and perfectly, appear to serve as signals of the intended degree of approximation to the truth. This article presents a novel formalism for representing the notion of approximation to the truth, and analyzes th…
Context Dependence, Disagreement, and Predicates of Personal Taste
The Temperature Paradox as Evidence for a Presuppositional Analysis of Definite Descriptions
January 01 2005 The Temperature Paradox as Evidence for a Presuppositional Analysis of Definite Descriptions In Special Collection: CogNet Peter Lasersohn Peter Lasersohn University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Peter Lasersohn University of Illinois Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 Linguistic Inquiry (2005)…
Expressives, perspective and presupposition
I compare Potts' use of a “judge” parameter in semantic interpretation with the use of a similar parameter in Lasersohn (2005). The latter technique portrays the content of expressives as constant across speakers, while Pott's technique does not. The idea that the content of expressives is a kind of presupposition is also briefly defended, and a technical problem in the “dynamics” of Pott's formalism is pointed out
Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics
version: 6/27/2008 1.0. Introduction. A common feature of recent relativist semantic analyses is that they treat sentences as expressing contents which are true or false not only relative to a possible world, but
Relative truth, speaker commitment, and control of implicit arguments
Common nouns as modally non-rigid restricted variables
Coordination of unmatched clause types and dynamic look-ahead
Declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamative sentences can all be coordinated with each other, even though they are often analyzed as belonging to different logical types. All four clause types can also appear as the consequent of a conditional. These facts are expected in a dynamic semantic theory in which each clause type is associated with an update operation to features of the discourse context, including a common ground, a questio…
Philosophy (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy of language (4 works)