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Situations as indices and as denotations

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A distinction is drawn between situations as indices required for semantically evaluating sentences and situations as denotations resulting from such evaluation. For atomic sentences, possible worlds may serve as indices, and events as denotations. The distinction is extended beyond atomic sentences according to formulae-as-types and applied to implicit quantifier domain restrictions, intensionality and conditionals.

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Fernando, T. Situations as indices and as denotations. Linguist and Philos 32, 185–206 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-009-9058-1

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