Ebook: Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

Ontos Verlag, 2012. — iii, 557 pages. — ISBN 978-3-86838-142-9.Articles gathered in the volume focus on traditional and contemporary debates within the philosophy of language, and on the interfaces between linguistics, philosophy, and logic. The topics of individual contributions cover such diverse issues as analytic accounts of the a priori and implicit definitions, medieval and contemporary theories of fallacy, game-theoretical semantics, modal games in natural language and literary semantics, possible-world theories and paradoxes involving structured propositions, extensions to Dynamic Syntax, semantics of proper names, judgement-dependence, tacit knowledge and linguistic understanding, ontology in semantics, implicit knowledge and theory of meaning, and many more. The multitude of topics shows that the convergence of linguistic, philosophical, formal, and cognitive approaches opens new research perspectives within contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics. The volume includes contributions by (among other authors): Luis Fernandez Moreno (Madrid), Chris Fox (Essex), Ruth Kempson (London), Alexander Miller (Birmingham), Arthur Sullivan (Newfoundland), Mieszko Talasiewicz (Warsaw).Philosophical and Formal Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Preface
Boghossian’s Implicit Definition Template
The Two One Fallacy Theory
Modal Games in Natural Language
A Problem with Structured Propositions
Does Intensional Semantics Account for ‘Travis Cases’?
Chomsky’s Methodological Naturalism and the Mereological Fallacy
Kripke and Mill on Natural Kind Terms
In Defence of Axiomatic Semantics
Identity of Linguistic Expressions and Lexical Synonymy in the Fields of Logical Semantics, Linguistic Semantics, and ‘Pragmatic Semantics’
Structured Propositions and Shared Content
In Defence of Singular Propositions
Context and Compositionality: the Challenge of Conversational Dialogue
Deferred Reference and Descriptive Indexicals. Mixed Cases
Proper Names: Denying Semantic Uniformity
Taking (It) Seriously: Normativity of Meaning
Accommodating Abstracta in Naturalist Accounts of Meaning
Ambiguous Conditionals
Defining Linear Dynamic Syntax
Towards a Non-referential Semantics
Are Propositions Facts?
Judgement-Dependence, Tacit Knowledge and Linguistic Understanding
Making Events Redundant: Adnominal Modification and Phases
A Philosophical Reflection on Language: Is Ontology Needed in Semantics?
In Defense of Implicit Knowledge in a Full-Blooded Theory of Meaning
On Pragmatic Regularities
A New Perspective for the Theory of Intentionality
A Conceptual Role Semantics for Attitude Reports