WHO:	Gregory Ward , Professor of Northwestern University
TOPIC:	Who’s the Ham Sandwich? A Pragmatic Analysis of Deferred Equatives
ABSTRACT:	Previous accounts of DEFERRED REFERENCE (e.g. Nunberg 1995) have argued that all (non-ostensive) deferred reference is the result of MEANING TRANSFER, a shift in the sense of a nominal or predicate expression. An analysis of deferred equatives (e.g. I’m the ham sandwich) suggests an alternative account based on the notion of PRAGMATIC MAPPING: a contextually licensed mapping operation between (sets of) discourse entities neither of which undergoes a transfer of meaning. Moreover, the use of a deferred equative requires the presence of a contextually licensed OPEN PROPOSITION whose instantiation encodes the particular mapping between entities, both of which remain accessible to varying degrees within the discourse model. Finally, it is shown how a complete account of deferred reference must provide for transfers of reference as well as meaning.›
WHEN:	10/2/2003 4:30:00 PM
WHERE:	Dewey 1101

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