Publications

Publication details [#8596]

Schnelle, Helmut S. 1979. Circumstance sentences. In Margalit, Avishai, ed. Meaning and use. Proceedings of a Yehoshua Bar-Hillel memorial conference, Jerusalem 1976. Reidel. pp. 93–115.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | language | present | situation

Annotation

S. discusses circumstance sentences (i.e sentences which, by definition, can only be understood in the context of the utterance) in the present tense.

Reviewed by

Raskin, Victor. 1979. Is there anything non-circumstantial? In Margalit, Avishai, ed. Meaning and use. Proceedings of a Yehoshua Bar-Hillel memorial conference, Jerusalem 1976. Reidel. pp. 116–122.