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From Whorf to Montague : explorations in the theory of language /
This book explores the relations between language, the world and the mind. Pieter Seuren argues that language requires a theory with abstract principles and that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning but mediate between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as sp...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a From Whorf to Montague : |b explorations in the theory of language / |c Pieter A.M. Seuren. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2013. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations and symbols""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The settling of a language""; ""1.1 A language as part of social reality""; ""1.2 Languages �go their own way�""; ""1.2.1 The arbitrary extension of semantic categories""; ""1.2.2 Semantic bleaching""; ""1.2.3 Auxiliation""; ""1.2.4 Perfective auxiliaries: have or be""; ""1.2.5 Subtle near-synonyms: use conditions versus truth conditions""; ""1.3 Creolization: the case of Sranan""; ""1.4 The heteromorphy problem""; ""2 The Whorf hypothesis""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Some history"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""2.2.1 The Whorf hypothesis in North America""""2.2.2 European �Whorfianism�: Leo Weisgerber""; ""2.3 Whorf""; ""2.3.1 The hypothesis analysed""; ""2.3.2 The perennial problem: the direction of causality""; ""2.3.3 Confusing the HOW and the WHAT""; ""2.3.4 The alleged primacy of language over cognition""; ""2.3.5 Grammar as a formally definable system""; ""2.3.6 Whorf �s attitude towards mathematics and the sciences""; ""2.3.7 Levels of thinking""; ""2.3.8 Whorf �s arguments: Hopi time and tense, Shawnee sentence types""; ""2.3.9 Language expresses thought: arguments against Whorf"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""2.4 Experimental testing""""2.4.1 Inconclusive experiments""; ""2.4.2 Getting closer""; ""2.5 Conclusion""; ""3 Relativism or a universal theory?""; ""3.1 Some necessary preliminaries""; ""3.1.1 A terminological observation""; ""3.1.2 Some observations regarding scientific methodology""; ""3.2 Some history""; ""3.3 Attitudes""; ""3.4 Further notional clarity""; ""3.5 What are �universals of language�?""; ""3.6 What to do with counterevidence?""; ""3.7 Modularity, innateness, and the �no negative evidence� problem""; ""3.7.1 Modularity and innateness"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""3.7.2 The �no negative evidence� problem""""3.8 Towards a general theory of human language""; ""3.8.1 A few proposals for universal properties of languages and grammars""; ""3.8.2 How about constituent structure?""; ""3.9 Conclusion""; ""4 What does language have to do with logic and mathematics?""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Language and logic""; ""4.2.1 What is (a) logic?""; ""4.2.2 The tradition""; ""4.2.3 Syntax: the notion of a grammatical algorithm""; ""4.2.4 Semantic syntax: propositions in logic, sentences in language"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4.2.5 Semantics: model-theoretic semantic interpretation4.3 Natural logic and natural set theory -- 4.4 The importance of scope relations -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. A test bed for grammatical theories -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Some class A facts -- 5.2.1 The epithet pronoun test -- 5.2.2 Topic-comment structure -- 5.2.3 Scope and negation -- 5.3 Some class B facts -- 5.3.1 German and Dutch verb clustering -- 5.3.2 The inflected infinitive in Portuguese -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6. The Chomsky hierarchy in perspective -- 6.1 Introduction | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | 8 | |a This book explores the relations between language, the world and the mind. Pieter Seuren argues that language requires a theory with abstract principles and that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning but mediate between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as speech for the production of utterances. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Language and languages. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sociolinguistics. | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Language | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Langage et langues. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Sociolinguistique. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Sociolinguistics |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Llenguatge i llengües. |2 thub | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Sociolingüística. |2 thub | |
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