TY - GEN
T1 - Restricted quantification over tastes
AU - Sassoon, Galit W.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper provides an analysis of statements with predicates of personal taste (tasty, fun, etc.) Rather than directly relativizing semantic interpretation to a judge (cf., Lasersohn, 2005), this paper aims to capture the phenomenon called 'faultless disagreement' (the fact that one can deny a speaker's subjective utterance without challenging the speaker's opinion) by means of pragmatic restrictions on quantification domains. Using vagueness models, a statement like the cake is tasty is analyzed as true in a partial context c iff it is true in the set of completions t consistent with c (Kamp, 1975), wherein tasty denotes different, contextually possible, taste measures (Kennedy, 1999). Phrases like for me restrict the set of completions to those with taste measures consistent with the speaker's taste. Faultless disagreement naturally follows assuming speakers accommodate or reject implicit restrictions of this sort (Lewis, 1979).
AB - This paper provides an analysis of statements with predicates of personal taste (tasty, fun, etc.) Rather than directly relativizing semantic interpretation to a judge (cf., Lasersohn, 2005), this paper aims to capture the phenomenon called 'faultless disagreement' (the fact that one can deny a speaker's subjective utterance without challenging the speaker's opinion) by means of pragmatic restrictions on quantification domains. Using vagueness models, a statement like the cake is tasty is analyzed as true in a partial context c iff it is true in the set of completions t consistent with c (Kamp, 1975), wherein tasty denotes different, contextually possible, taste measures (Kennedy, 1999). Phrases like for me restrict the set of completions to those with taste measures consistent with the speaker's taste. Faultless disagreement naturally follows assuming speakers accommodate or reject implicit restrictions of this sort (Lewis, 1979).
KW - Taste
KW - context restriction
KW - faultless disagreement
KW - vagueness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958449829&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_17
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AN - SCOPUS:77958449829
SN - 3642142869
SN - 9783642142864
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 163
EP - 172
BT - Logic, Language and Meaning - 17th Amsterdam Colloquium, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 17th Amsterdam Colloquium on Logic, Language and Meaning
Y2 - 16 December 2009 through 18 December 2009
ER -