Semantics and the objects of assertion

Dilip Ninan (1)

1 University of St Andrews [Scotland]

This paper is about the relationship between two questions: the question of what the objects of assertion are and the question of how best to theorise about 'shifty' phenomena like modality and tense. I argue that the relationship between these two questions is less direct than is often supposed. I then explore the consequences of this for a number of debates in the philosophy of language.

Mots clés: Kaplan; Lewis; Content; Context; Semantics; Epistemic modals; Relativism; Contextualism; Temporalism

Domaines: Linguistique

Dilip Ninan. Semantics and the objects of assertion. Linguistics and Philosophy, 2011, pp.355-380. ⟨10.1007/s10988-011-9084-7⟩. ⟨hal-00684231⟩