Predication, and what is said

pp. 140-172

in: Rod Bertolet, What is said, Berlin, Springer, 1990

Abstract

In the previous chapter a theory of speaker's reference based on the intentions of the speaker was developed. Completion of the story about what is said requires a companion theory of predication — referring to something is after all generally not all there is to saying something — and a demonstration of how these theories yield the desired result. Let us start then with predication. Happily, many of the considerations that occupied us in the previous chapter will apply here as well, which will allow the discussion to be somewhat less detailed than would otherwise be required.