Sutton, Peter R.2023-01-242023-01-242022Sutton PR. Restrictions on copredication: a situation theoretic approach. In: Starr JR, Kim J, Öney B (eds.). Proceedings of the 32nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference; 2022 Jun 8-10; El Colegio de Mexico (COLMEX) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM): Linguistic Society of America and Cornell University; 2022. p. 335–55. DOI: 10.3765/salt.v1i0.53512163-5951http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55389Comunicació presentada a la 32nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, celebrada del 8 al 10 de juny de 2022 de manera virtual.This paper proposes a situation theoretic account of polysemy: polysemous nouns denote situations that witness (i.e. contain) multiple entities of different types. For instance, lunch denotes situations that contain an eating event and some food where these stand in a patient relation. A puzzle regarding more than two-ways polysemous nouns such as statement is the restrictions on copredication they exhibit, namely, where multiple, potentially incompatible predicates are applied based on a single antecedent, but not all combinations of readings are possible. Such restrictions fall naturally out of the situation theoretic account of polysemy provided.application/pdfeng©2022 Suttoninfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://dx.doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5351CopredicationMereologyPolysemySituation theoryType Theory with Recordsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess