Sometimes form-meaning mappings in language are not arbitrary, but iconic: they depict
what they represent. Incorporating iconic elements of language into a compositional …

This chapter illustrates the use of probabilistic techniques in natural language pragmatics
and semantics with a concrete formal model. This model shows that a probabilistic …

I argue that free indirect discourse should be analyzed as a species of direct discourse
rather than indirect discourse. More specifically, I argue against the emerging consensus …

The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency
of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation. I argue that the …

Conventional wisdom has it that truth is always evaluated using our actual linguistic
conventions, even when considering counterfactual scenarios in which different conventions …

Quotation is ubiquitous in natural language (NL). Recent grammars that take a dialogical
view on the formal and semantic properties of NLs (Ginzburg, The interactive stance …

The quotational theory of free indirect discourse postulates that pronouns and tenses are
systematically unquoted. But where does this unquotation come from? Based on cases of …

Shifty Asymmetries: Universals and Variation in Shifty Indexicality Page 1 Shifty Asymmetries:
Universals and Variation in Shifty Indexicality Amy Rose Deal University of California, Berkeley …

We can communicate linguistic information by asserting sentences that are not explicitly
about linguistic matters. Stalnaker offers a pragmatic account of this phenomenon. It is not …

Starting from the familiar observation that no straightforward treatment of pure quotation can
be compositional in the standard (homomorphism) sense, we introduce general …