#3750. Three arguments for an individual concept analysis of specificational sentences

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Abstract:
The literature has debated whether specificational interpretations exist and, if so, what they are. This paper contributes to this debate by providing three new arguments for recognizing specificational interpretations, and against the view, prevalent in the syntactic literature, that sentences with allegedly specificational readings actually involve predicational readings and a structure of predicate inversion. Our discussion also demonstrates that the question of the semantics of specification is entirely independent of the question of whether the syntax of specification involves inversion or not.
Keywords:
Copular sentences; Individual concepts; Predication and predicate inversion; Specificational sentences

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