PNB 2XB3 Lecture 7: Semantics hw 7
15 Nov 2017
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1)peter expects someone from new york to win a lottery: yes, this sentence is ambiguous. The ambiguity is related to the difference between extensional and intensional contexts, arising from the word someone . One meaning of someone is anybody from new york while the other reading someone means someone specific from. De dicto meaning : peter is expecting anyone from new york to win the lottery. example= peter looked at the statistics and it looks like most tickets were bought from. New york and the lottery are both noun phrases. A lottery has to move out of the intentional complement. They behave differently, someone from new york wouldn"t move. Everything in the complement is being interpreted in the belief worlds (intentionally) They both have intentions only the one moving out can have an extension. It arises from the 2 readings of the word someone . There are two possible readings for the sentence: de dicto and de re.
