Intensional Transitive Verbs and their “Objects”
Intensional Transitive Verbs and their “Objects”
This chapter focuses on transitive intensional verbs such as need, look for, buy, and recognize, and in particular the semantics of special quantifiers in constructions in which two transitive intensional verbs are said to share an object. It is argued that the shared object in such constructions is neither an abstract meaning (an intensional quantifier or a property) nor an entity of the sort of a need. Rather it is what I call a variable satisfier, an entity associated with a function mapping situations satisfying an entity like a need onto objects.
Keywords: transitive intensional verbs, quantifier, intensionality, nominalizations, situations, variable embodiment, perception verbs
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