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Title
Logic as grammar / Norbert Hornstein.
Author
Hornstein, Norbert.
Uniform Title
CogNet library.
ISBN
0262081377
9780262081375
9780262275729
0262275724
9780262580823
0262580829
9780262081375
9780262275729
0262275724
9780262580823
0262580829
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1984.
Copyright
©1984
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
Call Number
P325 .H62 1984
Dewey Decimal Classification
415
Summary
How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others--an approach that makes use of semantical notions like "truth" and "reference"--should be replaced by a theory drawn from the syntactical vocabulary of generative grammar.Surprisingly, the book points out that linguistic competence can be acquired despite the degeneracy, finiteness, and deficiency of the environmental stimulus, and it characterizes those innate aspects of the mind which enable a child to develop into a native speaker.In eight chapters it investigates the issue of pronoun binding, relative quantifier scope, the treatment of definite descriptions, as well as more technical issues in current theoretical linguistics.A Bradford Book.
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