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Philosophy of Syntax Foundational Topics

:	Mieszko Talasiewicz
:	Philosophy of Syntax Foundational Topics
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9789048132881
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:	CHF 85.30
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:	Sonstiges
:	English

:	189
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Since 1970-ties in the theory of syntax of natural language quite a number of competing, incommensurable theoretic frameworks have emerged. Today the lack of a leading paradigm and kaleidoscope of perspectives deprives our general understanding of syntax and its relation to semantics and pragmatics. The present book is an attempt to reestablish the most fundamental ideas and intuitions of syntactic well-formedness within a new general account. The account is not supposed to compete with any of today's syntactic frameworks, but to provide a deeper understanding of why these frameworks succeed or fail when they do and to show a new way for cooperation between logicians and linguists which may lead in future to a unified, yet more specific account.

	CONTENTS	6
	1 INTRODUCTION	8
	1.1 Epistemological Background of the Problem of Syntax	8
	1.2 Language of Logic and Language of Linguistics	9
	1.2.1 The Haughtiness of Logic	12
	1.2.2 The Pretentiousness of Linguistics	14
	1.3 Towards a General Perspective	19
	2 SYNTAX	24
	2.1 The Functoriality Principle	24
	2.1.1 Three Levels of FP	25
	2.1.2 Terminology	27
	2.1.3 Preliminary Characteristic of FP Levels	28
	2.1.4 Definition of Semantic Category	31
	2.2 Fundamental Intuitons: Postulates and Controversies	32
	2.2.1 Interchangeability Principle	32
	2.2.2 Division into Basic and Non-basic Categories	40
	2.2.3 Syntax-Semantics Interface	45
	2.2.4 Atomicity Principle, Categories and Types	57
	2.3 Some Consequences of the Functoriality Principle	64
	2.3.1 Functoriality and Compositionality	64
	2.3.2 Intralinguistic Definition of Syntactic Operations	66
	3 SEMANTICS	74
	3.1 Some Technical and Logical Problems with Ostension	74
	3.2 Names	78
	3.2.1 The Definition of Ostensive Meaning	79
	3.2.3 Public Language and Private Language	84
	3.2.4 Compound Names: Natural Kinds and Appearance Concepts	86
	3.2.5 Analycity and Quasi-Ostension	91
	3.3 Sentences	95
	3.3.1 Standard Theory of Situations	97
	3.3.2 Ostensive Meaning of a Sentence	102
	3.3.3 Non Ostensive Meaning of a Sentence	104
	3.3.4 Meanings Versus Semantic Correlates	107
	3.3.5 Situations and Truth-Conditions: Boolean Compounds and Quantification	112
	3.3.7 Nominalization: Events Versus Propositions	115
	3.3.8 Hints for Analysis of Intensional Contexts	121
	4 CATEGORIAL ANALYSIS	123
	4.1 Problem of Logical Form (LF)	123
	4.1.1 Logical Form and Stratification of Syntactic Structures	123
	4.1.2 Logical Form and Traditional Grammar	125
	4.1.3 Natural Technical Language: Normal Contexts	127
	4.2 Principles of Analysis	130
	4.2.1 Paraphrase Acceptability Criteria	130
	4.2.2 Categorical and Facultative Rules	131
	4.2.3 Syntactic Ambiguity: Amphiboly and Alternation	135
	4.3 Details of Categorial Analysis	142
	4.3.1 Notation and Technical Assumptions	142
	4.3.2 Examples	157
	5 CONCLUSION	172
	REFERENCES	182
	NAME INDEX	187
	SUBJECT INDEX	190