TY - INPR PB - Wiley N1 - © 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/). TI - That's not what you said! Semantic constraints on literal speech AV - public N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024/03/15/ JF - Mind & Language ID - discovery10189961 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12508 A1 - Fisher, Sarah A ER -