Kennedy, Christopher & Willer, Malte: Familiarity inferences, subjective attitudes and counterstance contingency: towards a pragmatic theory of subjective meaning

_Linguistics and Philosophy_ 45 (6):1395-1445. 2022Subjective predicates have two interpretive and distributional characteristics that have resisted a comprehensive analysis. First, the use of a subjective predicate to describe an object is in general felicitous only when the speaker has a particular kind of familiarity with relevant features of the object; characterizing an object as _tasty,_ for example, implies that the speaker has experience of its taste. Second, subjective predicates differ