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Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays

Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays

Hardcover

Series: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers, Book 4

PhilosophyLinguistics

ISBN10: 0792347803
ISBN13: 9780792347804
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 30 1997
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.

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