Consonant with Russell's general interest in the form of propositions , we will treat talk about the logical form of a sentence in a language L to be essentially about semantic form as revealed in a compositional meaning theory for L.
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Language: en
Pages: 512
Pages: 512
Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology, all with the central theme of logical form -- a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which
Language: en
Pages: 182
Pages: 182
This study focuses on the relation of syntactic and semantic structure. It investigates the notion that within generative grammar there is a level of linguistic representation Logical Form. Its main assumption is that this is a level of phrase structure representation, derived by transformational operations from S-structure, and over which
Language: en
Pages: 133
Pages: 133
Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
This book critically reviews grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years and reconsiders some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations. In the late 1970s generative grammarians proposed the existence of an abstract syntactic level of grammatical representation derived from surface structure which
Language: en
Pages: 344
Pages: 344
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.