@article{discovery10189961, title = {That's not what you said! Semantic constraints on literal speech}, publisher = {Wiley}, note = {{\copyright} 2024 The Authors. Mind \& Language published by John Wiley \& Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).}, month = {March}, journal = {Mind \& Language}, year = {2024}, abstract = {According to some philosophers, a sentence's semantics can fail to constitute a complete propositional content, imposing mere constraints on such a content. Recently, Daniel Harris has begun developing a formal constraint semantics. He claims that the semantic values of sentences constrain what speakers can literally say with them-and what hearers can know about what was said. However, that claim is undermined by his conception of semantics as the study of a psychological module. I argue instead that semantic constraints should be understood as properties of public languages.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12508}, author = {Fisher, Sarah A} }