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Sadock and the Performadox

  • William G. Lycan
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Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar
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Abstract

In 1985 Jerry Sadock offered a solution to the Performadox, a puzzle about performative sentences propounded in 1980 by Boër and Lycan. The present paper defends Sadock’s approach, particularly against a number of objections previously made by Lycan.

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