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What copredication can(not) teach us
- Abstract:
- Copredication sentences such as ‘Lunch was delicious but took hours’ and ‘The book on the shelf was written by Tolstoy’ can be used to express truths despite ascribing prima facie incompatible properties to single entities. Theorists have drawn far-reaching and dramatic lessons about what copredication can teach us about language. We begin by focusing on the three such central lessons. In each case we argue that the lessons are mistaken. We then explain our own preferred account of copredication: the Property Versatility approach. We conclude by drawing out some substantive consequences of the Property Versatility approach.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1515/tl-2026-2002
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- Publisher:
- De Gruyter Brill
- Journal:
- Theoretical Linguistics More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2026-04-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2025-12-18
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1613-4060
- ISSN:
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0301-4428
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English
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2339768
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pubs:2339768
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2025-12-01
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- Copyright holder:
- Liebesman and Magidor
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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- © 2026 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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