Situations as indices and as denotations

Tim Fernando (1)

1 Trinity College Dublin

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 and applied to implicit quantifier domain restrictions, intensionality and conditionals.

Mots clés: Situations; Possible worlds; Events; Types; Intensionality

Tim Fernando. Situations as indices and as denotations. Linguistics and Philosophy, 2009, 32 (2), pp.185-206. ⟨10.1007/s10988-009-9058-1⟩. ⟨hal-00535504⟩