Edgington, Dorothy

"The scope ambiguity in natural language mirrors the ambiguity in thought."

"Metaphor allows us to speak of the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar."

"The speech act of promising creates obligation through linguistic performance."

"Indirect speech allows thought to nest within thought through language."

"The semantics of belief sentences reveals the transparency of reference."

"Generics express patterns and regularities that quantifiers miss."

"The subjunctive mood opens linguistic space for counterfactual reasoning."

"Composite meanings are not merely the sum of component meanings."

"The indicative mood expresses commitment to actualization."

"Ellipsis allows language economy without semantic loss."

"The semantics of comparison reveals how we structure gradability."

"Identity statements are not logically redundant even when true."

"The interpretation of pronouns depends on establishing linguistic antecedents."

"Modification is structurally ambiguous because meaning naturally multidirects."

"The future is linguistically projected but not semantically determined."

"Speech acts create social facts through language in ways logic cannot explain."

"The semantics of know vs. believe reveals different commitment structures."

"Embedding one sentence in another creates recursive possibilities for thought."

"The meaning of a word is its use in the language; use is multifaceted."

"Quantifier scope determines logical form, which determines truth conditions."

"The semantics of 'almost' reveals the importance of precisification."

"Reference is socially mediated; language is fundamentally a social phenomenon."

"The conditional is the most philosophically significant logical connective."

"Tense and aspect work together to structure temporal perspective."

"The meaning of proper names resists reduction to descriptive content."

"Performative utterances do things rather than merely describe them."

"The semantic value of a sentence depends on its context of utterance."

"Negation-as-failure differs from negation-as-absence in logical systems."

"The semantics of necessity reveals what we regard as invariant."

"Language allows us to project possible worlds from the actual world."