Zoltán Vecsey

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zoltán Vecsey plays a role.

Articles

Vecsey, Zoltán 2018 Negative existentials: A problem still unsolvedPragmatics 28:4, pp. 599–616 | Article
Negative existentials containing empty NPs are understood colloquially as representing how things stand in the world. Moreover, utterances of such sentences seem to express propositions or thoughts that are informative and true. Standard static semantic theories cannot provide a straightforward… read more
Vecsey, Zoltán 2014 Chapter 8. A plausibility-based model of shifted indexicalsThe Evidential Basis of Linguistic Argumentation, Kertész, András and Csilla Rákosi (eds.), pp. 199–218 | Article
In his groundbreaking formal work on context-dependent expressions, Kaplan (1989a) argued that the conventional meaning of natural language indexicals cannot be modified by sentential operators. Kaplan’s original theory, however, has been recently challenged by empirical studies. It turned out that… read more
Vecsey, Zoltán 2013 Epistemic modals: A cross-theoretical approachLanguage and Dialogue 3:3, pp. 422–436 | Article
In recent years, the standard account of epistemic modal discourse has been criticized from two directions. Expressivists and dynamic semanticists argue that simple epistemic modal sentences should be understood as non-truth-conditional. Relativists hold that the truth values of epistemic modal… read more
Vecsey, Zoltán 2010 On the pluralistic conception of logicPragmatics & Cognition 18:1, pp. 1–16 | Article
Beall and Restall (2000, 2006) argue for a pluralistic conception of logic, which may be called Background Pluralism. In the first part of this paper, I outline the core tenets of Beall and Restall’s position. In the second part I consider a particular line of criticism presented in Read (2004,… read more