Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language - Couverture souple

Hornstein, Norbert

 
9780262580823: Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262580829 ISBN 13 : 9780262580823
Editeur : MIT Press, 1986

Synopsis

How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others - an approach that makes use of semantical notions like "truth" and "reference" - should be replaced by a theory drawn from the syntactical vocabulary of generative grammar. Surprisingly, the book points out that linguistic competence can be acquired despite the degeneracy, finiteness, and deficiency of the environmental stimulus, and it characterizes those innate aspects of the mind which enable a child to develop into a native speaker. In eight chpaters it investigates the issue of pronoun binding, relative quantifier scope, the treatment of definite descriptions, as well as more technical issues in current theoretical linguistics. Norbert Hornstein is Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Program at the University of Maryland. A Bradford Book.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others - an approach that makes use of semantical notions like "truth" and "reference" - should be replaced by a theory drawn from the syntactical vocabulary of generative grammar. Surprisingly, the book points out that linguistic competence can be acquired despite the degeneracy, finiteness, and deficiency of the environmental stimulus, and it characterizes those innate aspects of the mind which enable a child to develop into a native speaker. In eight chpaters it investigates the issue of pronoun binding, relative quantifier scope, the treatment of definite descriptions, as well as more technical issues in current theoretical linguistics. Norbert Hornstein is Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Program at the University of Maryland. A Bradford Book.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262580829
ISBN 13 
9780262580823
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
192
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9780262081375: Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0262081377 ISBN 13 :  9780262081375
Editeur : MIT Press, 1984
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