Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-Theoretic Semantics

Peter Lasersohn is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his Ph.D. in Linguistics at Ohio State University in 1988, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the University of Rochester before his appointment at Illinois in 1996. He is the author of two previous books, A Semantics for Groups and Events (Garland, 1990), and Plurality, Conjunction and Events (Kluwer, 1995); and of shorter articles in journals including Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of Semantics, Natural Language Semantics, Synthese, and Inquiry.

• PrefaceList of abbreviations1: Subjectivity, disagreement, and content2: Dismissing the easy alternatives3: Setting the syntactic and semantic stage4: Notes on the grammar of time and space5: Basic relativist semantics6: "Hidden" and "disguised" elements7: Pragmatics of truth assessment8: Attitude predicates in relativist semantics9: Assertion and other speech acts10: Between fact and opinion11: Reliability, imagination, and the functional motivation for relativismReferencesIndex

this monograph represents a welcome contribution to the study of sentences concerning matters of opinion within the framework of logical semantics. As a result, it will be particularly appealing to specialists in formal linguistics and, more generally, scholars who are interested in the study of linguistic expressions of subjectivity.