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SUMMARY:The Syntax of Meteorology - John Collins (University of East Angli
 a)
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CONTACT:George Walkden
DESCRIPTION:Most contemporary theorists agree that aspects of the context 
 of an utterance systematically contribute to the uptake of the truth-condi
 tional content of the utterance. Disagreement arises over what extra-lingu
 istic factors are relevant and how such factors are triggered or made sali
 ent by a given utterance for the speaker-hearer to exploit. The use of met
 eorological predicates in so-called 'weather reports' has been the focus o
 f much of the debate and will be my focus\, too. The paper argues\, follow
 ing Recanati\, that meteorological verbs do not thematically (syntacticall
 y) feature a locative position\, either as part of their syntactic project
 ion or as part of their lexical content. This conclusion will be reached\,
  however\, not by way of Recanati's arguments (some of which will be rejec
 ted)\, but by way of general considerations on the syntax-semantics interf
 ace.
LOCATION:Barbara White Room\, Newnham College
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