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This text is concerned with the way the term "explanation" is typically used in linguistics. It argues that real explanations... Læs mere
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The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. This book presents an... Læs mere
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This volume brings together new work on the logic and ontology of plurality and on the semantics of plurals in natural language. A team of leading... Læs mere
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This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been shaped directly by their history of 'utility'... Læs mere
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This book collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard, alongside four new essays and an introduction. Each essay attempts to understand the idea of... Læs mere
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This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language... Læs mere
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This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together... Læs mere
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The descriptions 'good' and 'bad' are examples of thin concepts, as opposed to 'kind' or 'cruel' which are thick concepts. Simon Kirchin provides one of the first full-length studies of... Læs mere
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Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, at worlds that may be either... Læs mere
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Semantics aims to describe the significance of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their... Læs mere
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This book considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely... Læs mere
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With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning, and semantics is the science of... Læs mere