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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seuren, Pieter A. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Oxford linguistics.
Temas:
Language and languages.
Sociolinguistics.
Language
Langage et langues.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Llenguatge i llengües.
Sociolingüística.
Llibres electronics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""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 â€?go their own wayâ€?""; ""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""
  • ""2.2.1 The Whorf hypothesis in North America""""2.2.2 European â€?Whorfianismâ€?: 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 â€?s attitude towards mathematics and the sciences""; ""2.3.7 Levels of thinking""; ""2.3.8 Whorf â€?s arguments: Hopi time and tense, Shawnee sentence types""; ""2.3.9 Language expresses thought: arguments against Whorf""
  • ""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 â€?universals of languageâ€??""; ""3.6 What to do with counterevidence?""; ""3.7 Modularity, innateness, and the â€?no negative evidenceâ€? problem""; ""3.7.1 Modularity and innateness""
  • ""3.7.2 The â€?no negative evidenceâ€? 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""
  • 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

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