Edgington, Dorothy

"The verb system encodes our understanding of events and states."

"Implicature allows communication to exceed the bounds of explicit meaning."

"The semantics of 'some' and 'any' reveals quantificational asymmetries."

"Modal force in language expresses our degree of commitment to propositions."

"The interpretation of sentences is underdetermined by syntax and context alike."

"Speech acts are constitutive of social reality in ways physical acts are not."

"The semantics of causation in language outpaces causal theory in philosophy."

"Presupposition failure does not render a statement false but infelicitous."

"The indicative conditional expresses subjunctive dependence with indicative form."

"Language carves nature at the joints that matter to human cognition."

"The semantics of gradable adjectives reveals scalar structure in properties."

"Definite description presupposes existence and uniqueness simultaneously."

"The past tense does not merely locate events; it evaluates them temporally."

"Modal logic formalizes what natural language expresses in subtle ways."

"The semantics of silence is as important as the semantics of speech."

"Indexical expressions show that meaning is not purely extensional."

"The interpretation of metaphor requires understanding conceptual mapping."

"Language allows us to discuss what is merely possible as if it were real."

"The semantics of belief reports involves opaque contexts and transparent reference."

"Assertion creates commitment; retraction acknowledges that commitment failed."

"The semantics of 'and' differs from logical conjunction in subtle ways."

"Linguistic competence allows infinite expressions from finite means."

"The meaning of a statement is partially determined by what denies it."

"The subjunctive conditional expresses counterfactual dependence through language."