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Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallColloquium: Lyn Frazier
Haines Hall A25Topic situations and domain restriction Lyn Frazier University of Massachusetts Amherst Topic Situations are discussed in several guises in the linguistics literature. Austinian Topic Situations (Austin, 1950) are familiar in situation semantics, where sentences are true of partial worlds, not entire worlds, and people hold attitudes toward partial worlds (Barwise and Perry, 1983, Kratzer, 1989,...