Abstract

AbstractThe fourth chapter extends the findings of the previous ones by giving an account of two types of phenomena intensively discussed in the dynamic semantics literature. They concern the representational and dynamic interpretation of generalized quantifiers and epistemic modalities. It is shown that these as well can be handled in a conservative fashion and without requiring a need to resort to another concept of meaning. In all three chapter the main idea is that of a Tarskian satisfaction semantics and that of the dynamic composition of meanings. The chapter concludes with a discussion of a variety of situation semantics, which is definitely useful, but arguably of no use for the treatment of the phenomena dealt with in any version of dynamic semantics, including the one offered in this book.KeywordsDynamic generalized quantifiersWeak and strong readingsContingent identity statementsBelief reportsKnowing who`De re' belief`Hob-Nob' sentencesAlethic and epistemic modalitySituation theory

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