Attitude Reports (Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics) - Softcover

Grano, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108437206 ISBN 13: 9781108437202

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Propositional attitude reports are sentences built around clause-embedding psychological verbs, like Kim believes that it's raining or Kim wants it to rain. These interact in many intricate ways with a wide variety of semantically relevant grammatical phenomena, and represent one of the most important topics at the interface of linguistics and philosophy, as their study provides insight into foundational questions about meaning. This book provides a bird's-eye overview of the grammar of propositional attitude reports, synthesizing the key facts, theories, and open problems in their analysis. Couched in the theoretical framework of generative grammar and compositional truth-conditional semantics, it places emphasis on points of intersection between propositional attitude reports and other important topics in semantic and syntactic theory. With discussion points, suggestions for further reading and a useful guide to symbols and conventions, it will be welcomed by students and researchers wishing to explore this fertile area of study.

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About the Author

Thomas Grano is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Control and Restructuring (2015) and his work has appeared in numerous journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108437206
• ISBN 13: 9781108437202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250