Logical Form

Author : Richard Mark Sainsbury
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631177784
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Forms written by Richard Mark Sainsbury and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logical Forms examines the formal languages of classical first order logic and modal logic, and some alternatives and in each case takes as the central question: how can natural language best be formalized in this formal language? The approach involves close encounters with issues in the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of language.

Author : Andrea Iacona
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319741543
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Form written by Andrea Iacona and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This book focuses on the very idea of logical form, which is directly relevant to any principled reflection on that method. Its central thesis is that there is no such thing as a correct answer to the question of what is logical form: two significantly different notions of logical form are needed to fulfill two major theoretical roles that pertain respectively to logic and to semantics. This thesis has a negative and a positive side. The negative side is that a deeply rooted presumption about logical form turns out to be overly optimistic: there is no unique notion of logical form that can play both roles. The positive side is that the distinction between two notions of logical form, once properly spelled out, sheds light on some fundamental issues concerning the relation between logic and language.

Author : Robert May
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262631020
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Form written by Robert May and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on the relation of syntactic and semantic structure. It investigates the notion that within generative grammar there is a level of linguistic representation Logical Form. Its main assumption is that this is a level of phrase structure representation, derived by transformational operations from S-structure, and over which formal semantic interpretations are defined.The book explores Logical Form by focusing primarily on quantificational phenomena and on how their explicit syntactic representation interacts with various syntactic and semantic properties. Among the topics discussed are the interactions of wh and quantified phrases, bound variable anaphora, branching quantifiers, extraposition and multiple interrogation.Logical Form contains several technical innovations: the notion that LF-movement closely approximates "Move α," a new approach to characterizing quantifier scope, which makes central use of the notion of "government," a novel interpretation of the relation of syntactic nodes and categorical projections, and an application of path theory to the syntactic structure of Logical Form.Robert May is Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Barnard College, Columbia University. Logical Form is Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 12.

Author : Josef Bayer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401712727
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Directionality and Logical Form written by Josef Bayer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directionality and Logical Form provides a detailed treatment of the syntax of focusing particles, such as only and even in a cross-linguistic perspective. The derivation of logical forms is shown to be under the control, not only of the ECP and subjacency, but also of directionality of government and the particular word-order parameter that holds in a given language: head-final languages systematically disallow certain derivations or readings that are available in head-initial languages. The reason is that heads that deviate in their selection properties from canonical head-finality project a directionality barrier. Various strategies are explored by which this barrier can be circumvented. Although the theory is developed mainly on the basis of the head position in German, it can be directly used to explain constraints on the scope of Wh-in-situ in Bengali and closely related languages. Audience: Syntacticians and semanticists interested in parametric variation, as well as linguists working on Germanic and/or Indo-Aryan languages.

Author : Gerhard Preyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199245550
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Form and Language written by Gerhard Preyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology, all with the central theme of logical form - a fundamental issue in analytical philosophy and linguistic theory.

Author : William G. Lycan
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Form in Natural Language written by William G. Lycan and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1984 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logical Form in Natural Language clearly explains and defends the truth-theoretic method in semantics first developed by Donald Davidson to analyze logical forms of sentences of natural language.

Author : Michael Brody
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522038
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexico-logical Form written by Michael Brody and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexico-Logical Form relates in aim to Noam Chomsky's recent works on economy and minimalism: both authors recast the structure of the grammar, revealing its essential properties in the process. In Lexico- Logical Form, Michael Brody meticulously dissects aspects of the Principles and Parameters theory, pares away the extraneous, focuses on core issues, and recreates them in subtle and interesting ways.Brody argues for and discusses aspects of a radically minimalist, nonderivational approach to syntax in which both the central conceptual systems and the lexicon have direct access to the single syntactic representation, called Lexico-Logical Form. He proposes to streamline the syntactic component of the grammar by eliminating syntactic derivation and all syntactic levels of representation other than LF, the interface with the semantic component.A central driving force throughout is the elimination of redundancy in the theory. Since movement characterizes a subset of the relations characterized by chains, the former is eliminated. Since the lexicon must constrain the input to the semantic component, intervening representations are eliminated, and the relationship beween the lexicon and LF becomes direct. This timely approach explores a logical next step in the minimalist path.Lingistic Inquiry Monograph No. 27

Author : Norbert Hornstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557864246
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logical Form written by Norbert Hornstein and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Alan Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book Logic written by John Alan Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christian Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110518287
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Form(s) of Life, and Logic written by Christian Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life. All contributions engage with Wittgenstein’s approach to this topic. As a whole, the volume takes a stance against both biological and ethnological interpretations of the notion "form of life" and seeks to promote a broadly logico-linguistic understanding instead. The structure of this book is threefold. Part one focuses on lines of thinking that lead from Wittgenstein’s earlier thought to the concept of form of life in his later work. Contributions to part two examine the concrete philosophical function of this notion as well as the ways in which it differs from cognate concepts. Contributions to part three put Wittgenstein’s notion of form of life in perspective by relating it to phenomenology, ordinary language philosophy and problems in contemporary analytic philosophy.