Abstract
The pragmatic determinants of what is said are those elements drawn from the context of utterance which contribute to the literal meaning, sometimes called the ‘semantic content,’ of linguistic utterances. These contributions come in two varieties: those which are triggered by something in the syntax of the sentence (e.g., the referent for an indexical or a demonstrative) and those which are not. It is the latter kind of pragmatic determinants, often known as ‘unarticulated constituents,’ which have become the focus of much recent discussion as they appear problematic for a key claim of formal semantics, namely that the route to meaning runs along exhaustively syntactic trails.
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