Events and Semantic Architecture

Автор: Paul M. Pietroski

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Oxford University Press

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This book explores how grammatical structure is related to meaning. The meaning of a phrase clearly...

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Автор

Paul M. Pietroski

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2006

страници

276

EAN

9780199244317

ISBN

0199244316

Enbook ID

04530031

Издател

Oxford University Press

Теглоt

432

Размери

156 x 233 x 16

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This book explores how grammatical structure is related to meaning. The meaning of a phrase clearly depends on its constituent words and how they are combined. But how does structure contribute to meaning in natural language? Does combining adjectives with nouns (as in 'brown dog') differ semantically from combining verbs with adverbs (as in 'barked loudly')? What is the significance of combining verbs with names and quantificational expressions (as in 'Fido chased every cat')? In addressing such questions, Paul Pietroski develops a novel conception of linguistic meaning according to which the semantic contribution of combining expressions is simple and uniform across constructions. Drawing on work at the heart of contemporary debates in linguistics and philosophy, the author argues that Donald Davidson's treatment of action sentences as event descriptions should be viewed as an instructive special case of a more general semantic theory. The unified theory covers a wide range of examples, including sentences that involve quantification, plurality, descriptions of complex causal processes, and verbs that take sentential complements. Professor Pietroski also provides fresh ways of thinking about much-discussed semantic generalizations that seem to reflect innately determined aspects of human languages. Designed to be accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of logic, Events and Semantic Architecture will interest advanced students of linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science at graduate level and above.

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