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Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry SadockEdited by Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 176] 2011
► pp. 23–34
Edited by Etsuyo Yuasa, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 176] 2011
► pp. 23–34
Sadock and the Performadox
In 1985 Jerry Sadock offered a solution to the Performadox, a puzzle about performative sentences propounded in 1980 by Boër and Lycan. The present paper defends Sadock’s approach, particularly against a number of objections previously made by Lycan.
