Individual Concepts and Attitude Reports

Conditionals as attitude reports

Most theories of conditionals and attitudes do not analyze either phenomenon in terms of the other. A few view attitude reports as a species of conditionals (e.g. Stalnaker 1984, Heim 1992). Based on evidence from Kalaallisut, this paper argues for the opposite thesis: conditionals are a species of attitude reports. The argument builds on prior findings that conditionals are modal topic-comment...

Individual Concepts / 1 INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR CONCEPTS

Attitude Reports , Events , and Partial Models

Annotating Speech, Attitude and Perception Reports

We present REPORTS, an annotation scheme for the annotation of speech, attitude and perception reports. The scheme makes it possible to annotate the various text elements involved in such reports (e.g. embedding entity, complement, complement head) and their relations in a uniform way, which in turn facilitates the automatic extraction of information on, for example, complementation and vocabul...

Demonstratives as individual concepts

Using a version of situation semantics, this article argues that bare and complex demonstratives are interpreted as individual concepts.