Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Gender in conditionals / F. Del Prete, S. Zucchi. - In: LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY. - ISSN 0165-0157. - (2020). [Epub ahead of print] [10.1007/s10988-020-09307-6]
Abstract:
The 3sg pronouns “he” and “she” impose descriptive gender conditions (being
male/female) on their referents. These conditions are standardly analysed as presuppositions
(Cooper in Quantification and syntactic theory, Reidel, Dordrecht, 1983; Heim and Kratzer in Semantics in generative grammar, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998). Cooper argues that, when 3sg pronouns occur free, they have indexical presuppositions: the gender condition must be satisfied by the pronoun’s referent in the actual world. In
this paper, we consider the behaviour of free 3sg pronouns in conditionals and focus on cases in which the pronouns’ gender presuppositions no longer seem to be indexical and project locally instead. We compare these cases to previously reported shifty readings of indexicals in so-called “epistemic conditionals” (Santorio in Philos Rev 121(3):359–406, 2012) and propose a unified account of locally projected gender presuppositions and shifty indexicals based on the idea that indicative conditionals are Kaplanian monsters.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
conditionals; ·pronouns; gender presuppositions; context; indexicals; monsters;
Elenco autori:
F. Del Prete, S. Zucchi
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