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Shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. This book starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning... Læs mere
Explores the origins and early evolution of phonology, syntax, and semantics. This work considers the nature of pre- and proto-linguistic communication, the internal and... Læs mere
Arguing for two controversial ideas: that knowledge is a social status (like money or marriage) and that knowledge is primarily the... Læs mere
This text poses a broad challenge to the realist views of meaning and truth. Starting with a critical survey of the realism debate, the author then presents a defence of the... Læs mere
This is a selection of essays on issues relating to compositionality in language and mind. Compositionality is the following aspect of a system of representation - the... Læs mere
Reassessing the brilliant innovations of Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and others, which transformed philosophy as well as our understanding of mathematics, Michael Potter places arithmetic at the interface between experience, language, thought, and the world.
Identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are fundamental philosophical concerns. Colin McGinn treats them both... Læs mere
Explains how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. This book compares mainstream... Læs mere
In these twelve essays Stephen Yablo presents a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind, including mental/physical dualism, the... Læs mere
Features various identified Old Babylonian tablets in the Ashmolean Museum accessed before 1966. This combination of... Læs mere
This comprehensive introduction by two of the world's leading lexicographers presents a course in dictionary-making for publishers, colleges, and universities... Læs mere
Addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how... Læs mere