Keelefilosoofia raamat
) In (2c), the vantage point shifts fluidly from
the place of utterance to the pasture spring, or at least to somewhere along
the journey at which the speaker is pictured as ahead of the hearer.
Arriving at Princeton to give a talk, I am met by a former colleague
whom I last saw teaching at Wellesley. I ask, "Are you here now?," asking not
whether she is physically located in Princeton (duhh) but whether she is now
employed in the Princeton philosophy department (Nunberg 1993: 28); thus
truth-value can vary with employing institution. Or take
(3) Tomorrow is always the biggest party night of the year
uttered on the Friday before classes begin (Nunberg 1993: 29; Nunberg
credits Dick Oehrle with the example). "Tomorrow" in (3) cannot refer, as
it usually would, to the day or night following the date of utterance; it refers
to a type of date on the students' academic calendar, namely to the annual
Saturday before classes begin.
I could go on and on