Mistakes About Conventions and Meanings

The Standard View is that, other things equal, speakers’ judgments about the meanings of sentences of their language are correct. After all, we make the meanings, so how wrong can we be about them? The Standard View underlies the Elicitation Method, a typical method in semantic fieldwork, according...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, Cosmo(Cosmo Douglas)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129701