Memory reports as state descriptions: an Iranian perspective

IF 1.4 1区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI:10.1007/s11098-026-02607-w

Ryan Walter Smith

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Abstract

Abstract This paper investigates the semantic properties of memory reports in the Iranian languages Persian and Sorani Kurdish. In these languages, memory predicates are constructed out of a noun meaning ‘memory,’ the copula, and a locative preposition. I demonstrate that memory predicates in these languages pass diagnostics for abstract state predicates, distinguishing them from imagination reports, to which memory reports have been compared in the recent philosophical and linguistic literature. Building on decompositional approaches to attitude predicates, I develop a novel compositional semantics for memory predicates in these languages that accounts for their form, stativity, and differences from imagination predicates. This work contributes to the growing literature on the semantics of memory reports in natural language cross-linguistically, and discusses implications for the relationship between natural language semantics and the philosophy of memory.

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内存报告作为状态描述：伊朗视角

摘要本文研究了伊朗语、波斯语和索拉尼语、库尔德语记忆报告的语义特征。在这些语言中，记忆谓语是由一个表示“记忆”的名词、联系词和一个位置介词构成的。我证明了这些语言中的记忆谓词通过了抽象状态谓词的诊断，将它们与想象报告区分开来，在最近的哲学和语言学文献中，记忆报告与想象报告进行了比较。在态度谓词的分解方法的基础上，我为这些语言中的记忆谓词开发了一种新的组合语义，该语义解释了它们的形式、稳定性以及与想象谓词的差异。本研究为自然语言跨语言记忆语义报道的文献发展做出了贡献，并讨论了自然语言语义与记忆哲学之间关系的意义。

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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES PHILOSOPHY-

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2.60

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7.70%

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127

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