#3759. A (contingent) content–parthood analysis of indirect speech reports

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Abstract:
This research presents a semantic analysis of indirect speech reports. The analysis aims to explain a combination of two phenomena. This implies that in uttering a single sentence, one can say several things. Second, when the complements of these reports (and indeed, these reports themselves) are placed in conjunctions, the conjunctions are typically infelicitous. I argue that this combination of phenomena can be explained if speech reports report (perhaps contingent) parts of the contents of the sentences reported.
Keywords:
communication; content parthood; context; indirect speech; speech act pluralism; truthmakers

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