Accessible Referents in “Opaque” Belief Contexts

Problem(s) (for possible-worlds semantics) discussed: accessible ref’s in “opaque” context ◙ “Hob-Nob sentences” (referential dependence between different people’s believes) 3 ◙ Benz’s (2000) puzzle concerning common ground 4 ◙ modal anchoring (Farkas 1993, Roberts 1996:243) 5 ◙ “Huitink’s paradox” (Zeevat 2005:547) 6 ◙ strange cases of (mis)understanding (Alberti 2005b,d) 7 Essence of our proposal: context of interpretation (instead of the consistent model of a pos. world): truth-conditionally heterogeneous (multi-layered) information state (similar to Zeevat (2005)) Framework: ReALIS → , to be understood as a “psychological extension” of Kamp’s DRT 2