Paul Pietroski
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Pietroski plays a role.
Articles
2012 Language and conceptual reanalysis Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 57–86 | Article
In my view, phrasal meanings are instructions for how to build conjunctive monadic concepts. But phrasal concepts like ‘chase cows’ are not merely conjunctive. The idea is that open class lexical items fetch monadic concepts like CHASE(_), while some grammatical relations introduce thematic… read more
2010 Obligatory control and local reflexives: Copies as vehicles for de se readings Movement Theory of Control, Hornstein, Norbert and Maria Polinsky (eds.), pp. 67–88 | Article
Why do locally bound reflexives (LBR) and obligatorily controlled PRO (OC-PRO) only have de se interpretations in the scope of verbs like ‘expect’ and ‘believe’, while other pronouns can but need not support such interpretations? We argue that occurrences of LBR and OC-PRO result from copying,… read more