First person implicit indirect reports in disguise

In this paper, I deal with implicit indirect reports. First of all, I discuss implicit indi- rect reports involving the first person. Then, I prove that in some cases second per- son reports are implicit indirect reports involving a de se attribution. Next, I draw analogies with implicit indirect reports involving the third person. I establish some similarities at the level of free enrichment through which the explicature is obtained and I propose that the explicature is syntactically active, given that it sanctions anaphora. An implicit indirect report is a report which does not explicitly display fea- tures of indirect reports (e.g. the verb ‘say’ or the presence of a reported speaker), but implies an evidential base requiring the structure of an indirect report. Most importantly, in this paper I demonstrate that such structural ele- ments are active from a syntactic point of view in that they allow anaphora under certain conditions. Although it is the speaker’s meaning that matters in these cases, insofar as it intrudes into the explicature and it requires a certain (compulsory) logical form, the elements of the logical form implied at the level of the explicature are syntactically active.