This paper concerns two points of intersection between de se attitudes and the study of
natural language: attitude ascription and communication. I first survey some recent work on …

This thesis investigates three topics relating to the semantics of phi features on pronouns.
Part I focuses on gender features on pronouns. Following previous studies (Cooper 1983 …

Propositionalism is the view that all intensional constructions (including nominal and clausal
attitude reports) can be interpreted as relations to truth-evaluable propositional content …

This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of"
uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and …

The phenomenon of mixed quotation exhibits clear signs of both the apparent transparency
of compositional language use and the opacity of pure quotation. I argue that the …

Indexicals are context-dependent expressions such as I, you, here and now, whose
semantic value is determined by the context in which they are uttered (eg I denotes John if …

We argue that the infinitival complements of subject-control and subject-tosubject raising
verbs in Hungarian can have overt nominative subjects. The infinitival subject status of these …

Counterfactual attitudes like imagining, dreaming, and wishing create a problem for the
standard formal semantic theory of de re attitude ascriptions. I show how the problem can be …

I provide a novel semantic analysis of proper names and indexicals, combining insights from
the competing traditions of referentialism, championed by Kripke and Kaplan, and …

This paper deals with the semantics of de dicto, de re and de se belief reports. First, I flesh
out in some detail the established, classical theories that assume syntactic distinctions …