@article{Sæbø_2019, title={Appositives in Modal Contexs}, volume={15}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/381}, abstractNote={<p>It has recently been argued (by Harris and Potts 2009: 523–552) that so-called non-speaker oriented readings of appositives are a matter of pragmatic perspective shift and thus do not show that appositives contribute to descriptive content. In contrast, I argue that appositives are indeed building blocks of propositions and that non-speaker oriented readings are <em>de dicto</em> readings of classical presuppositions (definedness conditions on concepts) in modal contexts. Downward entailing modal contexts, like surprise contexts, provide the key to this conclusion: here, appositives provide a useful means to ensure that an individual retains its relevant properties across the modal space.</p>}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Sæbø, Kjell Johann}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={79–100} }