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Austere realism :contextual semantics meets minimal ontology
"A Bradford book."This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275682
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- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :illustrations.
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Learnability and cognition :the acquisition of argument structure
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- 9780262281614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) :illustrations.
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Knowledge of meaning :an introduction to semantic theory
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- 9780262277945
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 639 pages)
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Logic as grammar
"A Bradford book."How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others--an approach that make…
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- 0262081377
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- 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
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Metaphor in context
"A Bradford book."Josef Stern addresses the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole or part, fall within its scope?The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, receiv…
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- 9780262284356
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 385 pages)
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Semantics, tense, and time :an essay in the metaphysics of natural language
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- 0585101175
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Semantics and syntax in lexical functional grammar :the resource logic approach
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- 9780262271172
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- 1 online resource (x, 399 pages).
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Semantic cognition :a parallel distributed processing approach
This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses of hierarchical, categorization-based approaches, similarity-based approaches, and the approach often called "theory theory." Building on earlier models by Geoffrey Hinton in the 1980s and David Rumelhart in the early 1990…
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- 9780262282505
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 425 pages) :illustrations
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Restriction and saturation
With this study of Maori and Chamorro, Sandra Chung and William Ladusaw make a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the formal semantic analysis of non-Indo-European languages. Their ultimate focus is on how the study of these Austronesian languages can illuminate the alternatives for semantic interpretation and their interaction with syntactic structure. Revisiting the analysis o…
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- 9780262270274
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) :illustrations.
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Words without meaning
"A Bradford book."According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers an understanding of the meanings of words. Christopher Gauker rejects this conception of language, arguing that it rests on an unt…
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- 9780262273596
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- 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages).
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