The Myth of Unarticulated Constituents

Abstract

: it is the location of rain thatdetermines whether we get wet, carrots grow, and roads become slippery. These are,however, contingent facts about rain, wetness, people, carrots, and roads – they are notbuilt into the semantics for the verb 'rain'.We're interested the semantics and pragmatics of (1) not because of an interest inweather reports in general or rain reports in particular. We find Perry's examples anddiscussion of them important as case studies in the relationship between three centralcomponents of all communicative interactions:• The meaning of words (e.g. 'rain') and sentences they occur in (e.g. (1)).• Facts about the subject matter of our sentences not 'encoded' in the meaning ofour words (in this case, facts about rain and our interest in the location of rain).• Our intuitions about what is asserted, claimed, and said by utterances ofsentences.

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