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Quotation exhibits characteristics of both use and mention. I argue against the recently popular pragmatic reductions of quotation to mere language use (Recanati 1), and in favor of a truly hybrid account synthesizing and extending Potts (2) and Geurts & Maier (3), using a mention logic and a dynamic semantics with presupposition to establish a context-driven meaning shift. The current paper explores a “quote-breaking” extension to solve the problems posed by non-constituent quotation, and anaphora, ellipsis and quantifier raising across quotation marks.
I thank the audiences of LENLS 2007 (Miyazaki), LeGO Colloquium (Amsterdam), and the Frankfurt GK colloquium for valuable comments and suggestions on parts of this work. Further thanks go to the organizers and referees of LENLS 2007.
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Maier, E. (2008). Breaking Quotations . In: Satoh, K., Inokuchi, A., Nagao, K., Kawamura, T. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_18
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