Fact Proposition Event (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy)
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Guest editor's introduction, Language and Cognitive Processes 26 9 , Brandom's Pragmatist Inferentialism and the Problem of Objectivity. Proceedings of the British Postgraduate Philosophy Conference, Review of 'Richard S. Kayne, Comparisons and contrasts'. Journal of Linguistics Recursion as a human universal and as a primitive. Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory. On impossible changes and impossible borrowings. Continuity and Change in Grammar, eds.
Control into finite clauses in partial null-subject languages. Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory, eds. Special issue of Philosophical Writings.
Formal and functional approaches to disharmonic word orders. Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics Linguistic Variation Yearbook 10, ed. Limiting synchronic and diachronic variation and change: Language and Linguistics 10 4: Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics Hierarchy, Merge, and Truth.
In Of minds and languages. In Thinking About Almost Everything, eds. Three partial null-subject languages: The Final-over-Final Constraint as an effect of complement stranding. Genetic variation in Homo sapiens in regards to language and thought as a window into Universal Grammar. In search of new ways to understand language variation, change and acquisition, San Sebastian, July.
Comment on Guglielmo Cinque: The hidden structure of natural language. Comment on Rosemary Varley: The grammar of thought. University of Potsdam, October Sheehan, Hinzen and Reichard: A case-study of intensionality. In search of evidence. PhiLang, University of Lodz, May. Optional inflected infinitives in Portuguese and Galician. Poznan Linguistics Meeting, special session on the syntax of gerunds and infinitives. Deflationism, grammar, and truth. Comment on John Collins: The grammaticalization of thought, in three easy steps.
Reference at the edge: A grammatical account of propositions, facts and truths. Reference to facts as a grammatical phenomenon. A- voiding the lexicon, University of Munich, December.
Un-Cartesian Linguistics
The philosophical significance of UG. The Evolution of Language: States of the art in Biolinguistics. Hong Kong University, November. With Syntax against Event Arguments. Meaning hidden under the surface. Graduate Conference, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 28 September. Anti-Recursion and the Ontology of Truth. Discourse integration and the autonomy of semantics. Summary For years a guiding philosophical intuition on the nature of language has been that language is a - more or less deficient - medium for expressing our thoughts.
Ulrich Reichard Durham, 3. This paper outlines a truthmaker approach along the lines of Fine's truthmaker semantics to the semantics of attitude reports and modal sentences based on attitudinal and modal objects.
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Difficulties for Possible-Worlds Semantics '. Recently an alternative to the standard view of clauses as proposition-referring terms has been explored, according to which embedded clauses act semantically as predicates of content-bearing objects. This paper argues that this approach faces serious difficulties when it is based on possible worlds-semantics.
It outlines a development of the approach in terms of truthmaker theory instead. Zimmermann, Wiley, New York. This paper discusses the semantics of different sorts of nominalizations focussing on the underexplored topic of nominalizations of modal predicates. To appear in R. Oxford Handbook of Event Structure.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, This paper compares Davidson's event semantics to one based on truthmaking and argues that both are needed for a full account of the semantics adverbials.. Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses. D Gruyter, Berlin, Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality. Themes from Kit Fine. Comments by Kit Fine. Reponse to the comments of Fine by F.
This paper argues that terms like the number of people that can fit into the bus or the book John needs to write stand for variable objects, objects whose definition involves the notion of truthmaking. To appear in A. This paper argues that natural language involves its own ontology, which may be different from the ontology a philosophy may be willing to accept or even a non-philosopher when thinking about what there is -- as well from the ontology of what there really is.
Oxford Research E ncyclopedia of Linguistics. This paper lays out natural language ontology as an emerging discipline, distinguishing it as part of descriptive metaphysics from foundational metaphysics [12] 'A Plural Reference Interpretation of Three-Dimensional Syntactic Trees'.
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Papers for David Pesetsky'. This paper outlines a novel interpretation of three-dimensional syntactic trees in terms of plural reference, reference to several objects at once. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, , pp. This papers argues that Austin's notion of a locutionary act is extremely well-reflected in the semantics of natural language. It develops a new semantics of verbs saying say, think, write as well as of direct quotation within the overall view that sentences act semantically as predicates of attitudinal and modal objects.
De la Passion du Sense en Linguistique. Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, , pp.
Causal theory of reference Contrast theory of meaning Contrastivism Conventionalism Cratylism Deconstruction Descriptivist theory of names Direct reference theory Dramatism Expressivism Linguistic determinism Logical atomism Logical positivism Mediated reference theory Nominalism Non-cognitivism Phallogocentrism Quietism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism Theory of descriptions Verification theory. Such a "mediated reference" view has certain theoretical advantages over Mill's view. It relates the former to Aristotle and medieval trope nominalists Ockham. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. On the other side of the divide, and especially prominent in the s and 60s, were the so-called "Ordinary language philosophers". Not to be confused with Linguistic philosophy. Perhaps the most influential current approach in the contemporary theory of meaning is that sketched by Donald Davidson in his introduction to the collection of essays Truth and Meaning in
This paper outlines a semantic analysis of constructions with the noun case and argues that it involves truthmaking. Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives.
Oxford UP, New York, , pp. Oxford University Press, New York, , pp. This paper outlines a novel semantics of attitude reports based on attitudinal objects rather than propositions. It also outlines a novel semantics of deontic modal sentences based on modal objects rather than quantification over possible worlds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, , pp. This paper argues that the number of planets is not a number-referring term, but instead a term referring to a number trope, the manifestation of a number property in a plurality of objects. Logic, Philosophy, and Semantics. Linguistic Facts and Semantic Analyses '.
There are two approaches to the semantics of plurals: The paper argues in favor of plural reference, mainly based on linguistic data. Synthese Library, Dordrecht, , pp. This paper argues that the ontology of natural language involves intentional nonexistent objects, but only in contexts involving quasi-referential acts acts of unsuccessful or pretended reference.
Intentional objects are distinguished from fictional objects and construed in terms of coordinated quasi-referential acts. Unifying the Philosophy of Truth. Provide feedback about this page. There's a problem loading this menu right now.
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