Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays
Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of R...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
| Series: | Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. “The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry”
- 2. “No Scope for Scope?”
- 3. (with Gabriel Sandu) “Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon”
- 4. “‘Is’, Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity”
- 5. “Logical Form and Linguistic Theory”
- 6. “On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics”
- 7. “Paradigms for Language Theory”
- 8. (with Gabriel Sandu) “The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference”
- 9. “Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and ‘Small Worlds’”
- 10. “Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories”
- 11. (with Gabriel Sandu) “Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning”