Talasiewicz Philosophy of Syntax

Foundational Topics
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-90-481-3288-1
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 189 Seiten

Since 1970-ties in the theory of syntax of natural language quite a number of competing, incommensurable theoretic frameworks have emerged. Today the lack of a leading paradigm and kaleidoscope of perspectives deprives our general understanding of syntax and its relation to semantics and pragmatics. The present book is an attempt to reestablish the most fundamental ideas and intuitions of syntactic well-formedness within a new general account. The account is not supposed to compete with any of today's syntactic frameworks, but to provide a deeper understanding of why these frameworks succeed or fail when they do and to show a new way for cooperation between logicians and linguists which may lead in future to a unified, yet more specific account.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talasiewicz, Mieszko

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;1 INTRODUCTION;8
2.1;1.1 Epistemological Background of the Problem of Syntax;8
2.2;1.2 Language of Logic and Language of Linguistics;9
2.2.1;1.2.1 The ‘Haughtiness’ of Logic;12
2.2.2;1.2.2 The ‘Pretentiousness’ of Linguistics;14
2.3;1.3 Towards a General Perspective;19
3;2 SYNTAX;24
3.1;2.1 The Functoriality Principle;24
3.1.1;2.1.1 Three Levels of FP;25
3.1.2;2.1.2 Terminology;27
3.1.3;2.1.3 Preliminary Characteristic of FP Levels;28
3.1.4;2.1.4 Definition of Semantic Category;31
3.2;2.2 Fundamental Intuitons: Postulates and Controversies;32
3.2.1;2.2.1 Interchangeability Principle;32
3.2.2;2.2.2 Division into Basic and Non-basic Categories;40
3.2.3;2.2.3 Syntax-Semantics Interface;45
3.2.4;2.2.4 Atomicity Principle, Categories and Types;57
3.3;2.3 Some Consequences of the Functoriality Principle;64
3.3.1;2.3.1 Functoriality and Compositionality;64
3.3.2;2.3.2 Intralinguistic Definition of Syntactic Operations;66
4;3 SEMANTICS;74
4.1;3.1 Some Technical and Logical Problems with Ostension;74
4.2;3.2 Names;78
4.2.1;3.2.1 The Definition of Ostensive Meaning;79
4.2.2;3.2.3 Public Language and Private Language;84
4.2.3;3.2.4 Compound Names: Natural Kinds and Appearance Concepts;86
4.2.4;3.2.5 Analycity and Quasi-Ostension;91
4.3;3.3 Sentences;95
4.3.1;3.3.1 Standard Theory of Situations;97
4.3.2;3.3.2 Ostensive Meaning of a Sentence;102
4.3.3;3.3.3 Non Ostensive Meaning of a Sentence;104
4.3.4;3.3.4 Meanings Versus Semantic Correlates;107
4.3.5;3.3.5 Situations and Truth-Conditions: Boolean Compounds and Quantification;112
4.3.6;3.3.7 Nominalization: Events Versus Propositions;115
4.3.7;3.3.8 Hints for Analysis of Intensional Contexts;121
5;4 CATEGORIAL ANALYSIS;123
5.1;4.1 Problem of Logical Form (LF);123
5.1.1;4.1.1 Logical Form and Stratification of Syntactic Structures;123
5.1.2;4.1.2 Logical Form and Traditional Grammar;125
5.1.3;4.1.3 Natural Technical Language: Normal Contexts;127
5.2;4.2 Principles of Analysis;130
5.2.1;4.2.1 Paraphrase Acceptability Criteria;130
5.2.2;4.2.2 Categorical and Facultative Rules;131
5.2.3;4.2.3 Syntactic Ambiguity: Amphiboly and Alternation;135
5.3;4.3 Details of Categorial Analysis;142
5.3.1;4.3.1 Notation and Technical Assumptions;142
5.3.2;4.3.2 Examples;157
6;5 CONCLUSION;172
7;REFERENCES;182
8;NAME INDEX;187
9;SUBJECT INDEX;190