Copredication, polysemy and context-sensitivity

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ID21335376
AuthorsEmanuel Viebahn (0000-0001-5747-2269, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume65
Issue8
Pages1066-1082
Publication date2022-09-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-174X • E-ISSN: 1502-3923
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0020174x.2020.1822911
OpenAlexW3088491231
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited16

Copredication, as exhibited by sentences such as ‘That book is heavy but informative,’ is commonly seen as a phenomenon that is tied to sentences featuring polysemous expressions. David Liebesman and Ofra Magidor have recently attacked this view by arguing that ‘book’ has a single context-sensitive sense. The first aim of the present paper is to show that Liebesman and Magidor are wrong to claim that ‘book’ is univocal, but that they may nonetheless be right to question that copredication requires polysemy. Its second aim is to consider implications of this result for the debates on copredication and on semantic variability

Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Polysemy · Sensitivity (control systems) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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