The Dynamics of Tense under Attitudes – Anaphoricity and de se Interpretation in the Backward Shifted Past

Bary, Corien; Maier, Emar

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“…In short, the problem is that if a reported speaker (for example the some in (2)) is mistaken about the time when he utters or believes the present tense complement of the report, the anaphoric account ascribes him a belief about the time of the reported utterance itself, whereas the reported speaker actually has a belief about the time he thinks it is, which I will call the reported now. For a discussion of this point I refer the reader to von Stechow (1995), Kratzer (1998), and Bary and Maier (2009).…”

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“…As the analysis presented here shows, however, there need not be a clash between the two features as long as one restricts the uptake possibilities to the entities introduced in the same embedding, which in fact already follows from the semantics. Bary and Maier (2009) argue that (English) examples where there is an apparent anaphoric uptake outside the embedded context should be analysed along the same lines.…”

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Tense in Ancient Greek Reports

Bary¹

2012

J Greek Linguist

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This paper shows that tenses in Ancient Greek reports have both an anaphoric and a shifted-indexical component. It develops a new account of Ancient Greek tenses that deals with this combination of features. Following Klein's (1994) semantics of tense, I claim that tense indicates the relation between an anaphoric topic time and the moment of utterance, the now. As for Ancient Greek indirect discourse, I argue that the anaphoric component works exactly the same as in non-embedded discourse (contra von Stechow 1995). The indexical component, however, is di ferent in that the now is not provided by the actual context of utterance, but by the reported context. The DRT account developed models this combination of features, taking also into account the role of aspect.

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Tense in Ancient Greek Reports

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2012

J Greek Linguist

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“…This is arguably inadequate because it often happens that an entity introduced de dicto in a belief report is picked up by an anaphoric element in a subsequent de dicto report. SeeBary and Maier (2009) for examples and a solution involving a modification of the update mechanism compatible with the analysis presented here.…”

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Presupposing acquaintance: a unified semantics for de dicto, de re and de se belief reports

Maier

2009

Linguist and Philos

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This paper deals with the semantics of de dicto, de re and de se belief reports. First, I flesh out in some detail the established, classical theories that assume syntactic distinctions between all three types of reports. I then propose a new, unified analysis, based on two ideas discarded by the classical theory. These are: (i) modeling the de re/de dicto distinction as a difference in scope, and (ii) analyzing de se as merely a special case of relational de re attitudes. The resurrection of these ideas takes place in a dynamic setting. My formalization of the first idea involves a modification of the presupposition-as-anaphora resolution algorithm for DRT. The second involves treating acquaintance relations as second-order presuppositions, to be bound in the context by means of higher-order unification, or accommodated if necessary. The resulting framework requires no syntactic distinctions between different modes of attitude, with the exception of a specific subclass of de se reports characterized by special 'de se pronouns' (i.e. PRO and logophors). These special pronouns are handled in syntax; everything alse is passed on to the pragmatic resolution module as it appears on the surface. The more sophisticated contextual resolution process nonetheless ensures adequate output truth conditions for a variety of classical and novel puzzles. In particular, I compare the new pragmasemantic system to the classical, syntactic analysis with respect to iterated and quantified reports, and monstrously shifted indexicals.

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Parasitic attitudes

Maier

2015

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Karttunen observes that a presupposition triggered inside an attitude ascription, can be filtered out by a seemingly inaccessible antecedent under the scope of a preceding belief ascription. This poses a major challenge for presupposition theory and the semantics of attitude ascriptions. I solve the problem by enriching the semantics of attitude ascriptions with some independently argued assumptions on the structure and interpretation of mental states. In particular, I propose a DRT-based representation of mental states with a global belief-layer and a variety of labeled attitude compartments embedded within it. Hence, desires and other non-doxastic attitudes are asymmetrically dependent on beliefs. I integrate these mental state representations into a general semantic account of attitude ascriptions which relies on the parasitic nature of nondoxastic attitudes to solve Karttunen's puzzle.

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The Dynamics of Tense under Attitudes – Anaphoricity and de se Interpretation in the Backward Shifted Past

Cited by 3 publications

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Tense in Ancient Greek Reports

Tense in Ancient Greek Reports

Presupposing acquaintance: a unified semantics for de dicto, de re and de se belief reports

Parasitic attitudes

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