Mixed quotation exhibits characteristics of both mention and use. Some even go so far as to claim it can be described wholly in terms of the pragmatics of language use. Thus, it may be argued that the observed shifting of indexicals under all quotation shows that a monstrous operator is involved. I will argue the opposite: a proper semantic account of quotation can be used to exorcize Schlenker's monsters from semantic theory.

@INPROCEEDINGS{maier07_ac,
  author = {Emar Maier},
  title = {Quotation marks as monsters, or the other way around?},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium},
  pages = {145-150},
  year = 2007,
  editor = {Maria Aloni and Paul Dekker and Floris Roelofsen},
  address = {Amsterdam},
  month = {December},
  organization = {ILLC},
  url = {http://ncs.ruhosting.nl/emar/em_ac07_paper.pdf}
}