Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics

2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (12) ◽  
pp. 613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Kolbel
Keyword(s):  
Davidsonian Semantics

Davidsonian Semantics and Anaphoric Deflationism

dialectica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
David LÖWENSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Davidsonian Semantics

Facing Facts With Davidsonian Semantics

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-127
Author(s):  
Richard N. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Davidsonian Semantics

Content and Theme in Attitude Ascriptions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Side Effect ◽  
The State ◽  
Syntactic Category ◽  
Standard View ◽  
Transitive Verb ◽  
Attitude Ascriptions ◽  
Thematic Relations ◽  
Psych Verbs ◽  
Substitution Failure ◽  
Davidsonian Semantics

This chapter addresses a less-commonly discussed substitution failure in attitude ascriptions: a “that”-clause and its corresponding proposition description cannot in general be interchanged in the scope of psych-verbs, despite the standard view that the two forms refer to the same proposition. For example, “Holmes suspects that Moriarty has returned” and “Holmes suspects the proposition that Moriarty has returned” mean something quite different. The chapter accounts for these data in the framework of neo-Davidsonian semantics, arguing that substitution does not simply change the syntactic category of the attitude verb from clausal to transitive or vice versa, but also triggers the side-effect of changing thematic relations: when the transitive verb is used, it is the theme of the attitude-state or event that is identified, but when the clausal verb is used, it is the content of the state that is identified.

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