Semantics of Natural Language

784 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Subjects, Speakers, and Roles.- Deep Structure as Logical Form.- Troubles about Actions.- Act.- Some Problems Concerning the Logic of Grammatical Modifiers.- Pragmatics and Intensional Logic.- General Semantics.- On the Frame of Reference.- Naming and Necessity.- Proper Names and Identifying Descriptions.- Pragmatics.- The Semantics of Modal Notions and the Indeterminacy of Ontology.- Opacity, Coreference, and Pronouns.- Methodological Reflections on Current Linguistic Theory.- Grammar and Philosophy.- Analytic/Synthetic and Semantic Theory.- A Program for Syntax.- A Program for Logic.- Linguistics and Natural Logic.- Semantical Archaeology: A Parable.- On the Semantics of the Ought-To-Do.- Inference and Self-Reference.- What Is Said.- The Role of Inductive Reasoning in the Interpretation of Metaphor.- Probabilistic Grammars for Natural Languages.- Addenda to Saul A. Kripke's Paper 'Naming and Necessity'.

• Reihe: Synthese Library
• Themen: Lexika Interdisziplinäre Studien Semiotik und Semiologie
• ISBN: 9789027703101
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.1973
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: D. Davidson, Gilbert Harman