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- Title
On the difference between the 'In' and 'According to' operators.
- Authors
Semeijn, Merel
- Abstract
Semanticists and philosophers of fiction that formulate analyses of reports on the content of media—or 'contensive statements'—of the form 'In/According to s, ϕ ', usually treat the 'In s'-operator (In) and the 'According to s'-operator (Acc) on a par. I argue that In and Acc require separate semantic analyses based on three clusters of linguistic observations: (1) preferences for In or Acc in contensive statements about fictional or non-fictional media, (2) preferences for In or Acc in contensive statements about implicit or explicit content and (3) tense preferences in contensive statements with In and Acc. To account for these three observations I propose to adopt Lewis's possible world analysis for contensive statements with In and to analyse contensive statements with Acc as indirect speech reports.
- Subjects
SEMANTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages; INDIRECT discourse (Grammar); NOMINALS (Grammar); LINGUISTICS
- Publication
Linguistics & Philosophy, 2024, Vol 47, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
0165-0157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10988-023-09395-0