Knowledge of Meaning
An Introduction to Semantic Theory
Paperback | 23 September 1995
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Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
The Nature of Semantic Theory | |
The Pretheoretical Domain Of Semantics | |
Semantic Properties and Relations | |
The External Significance of Language | |
The Internal Significance of Language | |
The Pretheoretical Domain as Pretheoretical | |
Semantic Theory As A Theory Of Linguistic Knowledge | |
Properties of Semantic Rules | |
Acquisition of Semantic Rules | |
Use of Semantic Rules | |
The Place And Responsibilities Of Semantic Theory | |
Knowledge of Meaning and Theories of Truth | |
T Theories | |
A Sample Derivation | |
The Nontriviality of T Theorems | |
T Theories As Theories Of Meaning | |
The Extension Question | |
The Information Question | |
The Theoretical Domain Of Semantics | |
Recasting the Pretheoretical Domain | |
The External Significance of Language | |
The Internal Significance of Language | |
The Compositional Form of T Theories | |
The Reality Of Semantic Knowledge | |
Exercises | |
Meaning and Structure | |
Notions Of Structure | |
Semantic Structure and Syntactic Structure | |
Semantic Structure and Logical Structure | |
Constraints On Semantic Rules | |
Strong Compositionality | |
Introducing Semantic Values | |
Must Semantic Analysis Be Exhaustive? | |
Some Syntactic Theory | |
Structural Descriptions | |
Licensing Phrase Markers | |
Levels of Representation | |
Concluding Methodological Remarks | |
Combining Syntax and Semantics | |
Analyzing Fragments of Natural Language | |
Exercises | |
Verbs and Predication | |
The Structure And Interpretation Of Elementary Clauses | |
The Theory PC+ | |
A Sample Derivation | |
The Semantics Of Predicates And Predication | |
Some Thought Experiments | |
Generality and Object Independence | |
Distinguishing Predicates | |
Alternatives To The PC+ Analysis Of Predicates | |
PCSet | |
PC prop | |
Evaluating The Alternatives | |
Ontological Commitment | |
Semantic Properties | |
Linguistic Predictions | |
Exercises | |
Proper Nouns and Reference | |
Proper Nouns In PC+ | |
The Problem of Coextensive Proper Nouns | |
The Problem of Empty Proper Nouns | |
Descriptive Names | |
Hypothesizing Names | |
The Theory PC+ DN | |
Semantic Properties of Descriptive Names | |
Problems For PC+DN | |
Rigidity of Proper Nouns | |
Making Descriptive Names Rigid | |
The Problem of Descriptive Conditions | |
Knowing The Axioms Of A Semantic Theory | |
Mill and Frege | |
Coextensive Proper Nouns Again | |
Empty Proper Nouns Again | |
Linking Names and Things | |
Exercises | |
Pronouns and Demonstratives | |
Introducing Contexts | |
Contexts, Sequences, And Indices | |
Relativizing the T Theory to Sequences | |
A Sample Derivation | |
Absolute Truth | |
Conditionalized T Sentences | |
Complex Demonstratives | |
Truth Conditions versus Sequence Conditions | |
Gender Information in Pronouns | |
Indexical Pronouns and the Relation S | |
The Semantic Properties Of Pronouns And Demonstratives | |
Exercises | |
Quantification | |
The Syntactic Form Of Quantification | |
The Semantics Of Quantification | |
Quantification and Proper Nouns | |
Quantification and Variable-Reference Terms | |
Sequence Variants | |
The Theory Predc | |
Quantified Sentences as True or False Absolutely | |
Residual Noncompositionality in PredC | |
Quantification And The LF Hypothesis | |
Proper Binding | |
Quantifier-Scope Ambiguity | |
Variable-Binding Operators | |
Topicalization | |
Restrictive Relative Clauses | |
Variable Binding, Sequence Variants, and Compositionality | |
Exercises | |
Quantifiers and Quantifier Properties | |
Noncompositionality In Predc | |
The Relational Analysis Of Determiners | |
The Theory GQ | |
Quantifier Properties | |
Affectivity and Directional Entailment | |
The Definiteness Effect | |
The Partitive Constraint | |
Conservativity and "Possible Determiners" | |
What Is A Quantifier? | |
Permutation | |
Quantifiers as Cardinality Functions | |
Exercises | |
Definite Descriptions | |
Definite Descriptions As Quantifiers | |
Reference versus Denotation | |
Some Virtues of the Quantificational Account | |
Improper Descriptions | |
Definite Descriptions As Referring Terms | |
Referential Cases | |
Definite Descriptions As Demonstratives | |
A Pragmatic Alternative | |
Referential Interpretation versus Referential Use | |
A Pragmatic Typology | |
Semantics or Pragmatics? | |
Proper Nps As Referential Definites | |
Exercises | |
Anaphora | |
Bound-Variable Anaphora | |
Syntactic Constraints On Bound-Variable Anaphora | |
Bound-Variable Anaphora In GQ | |
Argument Anaphora | |
Names And Pronouns: Variable Binding | |
Names And Pronouns: Sequence Constraints | |
Names And Pronouns: Antecedence | |
Bound-Variable Anaphora With Proper Names? | |
Unbound Anaphora | |
The Nonquantificational Indefinite Theory | |
The Descriptive-Pronoun Theory | |
Exercises | |
Clausal Complements and Attitude Reports | |
Clausal Complements and Truth Values | |
Words, Worlds, and Propositions | |
Quotational Theories | |
Modal Theories | |
Propositional Theories | |
Interpreted Logical Forms | |
Introducing Ilfs | |
The Empirical Adequacy Of Ilfs | |
The Intuitive Adequacy Of Ilfs | |
The Theory ILF | |
ILFs And Variable-Reference Terms | |
Purely Syntactic Ilfs | |
What's In An ILF? | |
ILFs and Inference | |
Exercises | |
Events, States, and Times | |
Analyses of Adverbs | |
Adverbs As Arguments | |
Adverbs As Predicates | |
Davidson's Event Analysis | |
The Theory EC | |
Virtues Of The Event Analysis | |
Thematic Roles | |
Decomposing The Verb | |
The Theory ECQ | |
Virtues Of The Thematic-Role Analysis | |
Uniqueness And Identity Of Thematic Roles | |
States | |
Accommodating The Event/State Distinction In ECQ | |
States And Events In AP And PP | |
States And Events In Nominals | |
The Nature Of States And Events | |
Times | |
Secondary Predicates Again | |
Relativizing "Cul" And "Hold" To Times | |
Introducing Simple Tenses | |
Exercises | |
Meaning and Knowledge | |
Semantics and Linguistic Individualism | |
Semantics and Psychoindividualism | |
General Terms: Earth And Twin Earth | |
Accommodating Psychoindividualism | |
Singular Terms | |
Tacit Knowledge | |
A Computational Framework | |
Tacit-Rule Following And Computation | |
Against Eliminative Materialism | |
Notes | |
References | |
Author Index | |
Subject Index | |
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ISBN: 9780262621007
ISBN-10: 0262621002
Series: Bradford Books
Published: 23rd September 1995
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 664
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1
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