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This paper argues that at least some cases of productive language use, specif ic ally cases of apparent variation in word sense, require a treatment at the conceptual level rather than a lexical semantic solution. It is argued that the lexical semantics should be left underspecified in these cases, and the observed variation in truth-conditions should be attributed to differences in conceptual represent ation that result from differences in the utterance context. This involves rather drastic changes in our conception of the semantics-pragmatics interface, which are discussed in this paper.
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Bosch, P. (2007). Productivity, Polysemy, and Predicate Indexicality. In: ten Cate, B.D., Zeevat, H.W. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75144-1_5
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