Property Inheritance, Deferred Reference and Copredication. (23rd December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gotham, Matthew
• Is Part Of: Journal of semantics. Volume 39:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 87
• Page End: 116
• Publication Date: 2021-12-23
• Subjects: Semantics -- Periodicals; Semantik; Semantics; Periodicals; 401.43
• DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffab020
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0167-5133

Abstract

Abstract: There are sentences that are coherent and possibly true, but in which there is at the very least the appearance of a conflict between the requirements of two (or more) predicates that are applied to the same argument. This phenomenon, known as copredication, raises various issues for linguistic theory. In this paper I defend and develop an approach to the issues of counting and individuation in copredication put forward in previous work, in dialogue with criticisms made by Liebesman & Magidor and their own positive account of copredication.